iPhone or Blackberry

[MattADH]

Just wondered what peoples thoughts were on these two items...

I have been considering getting a Blackberry for a while - the convenience of having access to e-mails etc seems a great idea.

TBH, I feel that although the iPhone is a superb piece of kit in the way that it works like the interface/scrolling menus, but just like the iPod, the next generations are going to be significantly better and the issues like network availability (unless you use some hacking software) will have been solved.

[frogger]

Here are my findings with the iPhone:

Microsoft Exchange email works fine. It's not push, but the built in email app will check email every 15 minutes. eMail is MARKEDLY better than the blackberry (bigger screen, HTML email support, fantastic opening of PDFs etc etc). Your mail server needs to support IMAP and SMTP.

Calendering is more of a hassle. It updates when you dock without a problem, but not wirelessly. Worse, if you get an appointment via email it doesn't even *show up* in your mail box (they're hidden).

My schedule for each day is pretty much set by EOB the day before, so this doesn't worry me too much - and it does everything else well. Phonebook is better than the blackberry, and integrates well with my car. It has no voice dialing support tho, unless your car handsfree has it.

Camera is useless in anything but bright light. Web browsing over EDGE is slow, but very very useable via WiFi. It's not compatible with the security on some wireless networks, so you'll be on EDGE most of the time.

Speakerphone is good, but quiet. Ringer is feebly quiet, but the vibrate is fairly good.

Most annoying thing? No copy and paste support! That means someone sends you a text message with a tel in it you have to remember it and retype it in the phone app before you can dial it.

Battery life is pretty good too - I can get two days out of it.

Had loads of crackberries too and they works well enough. Not bling, not great, not fantastic but they just work.

Why not look at getting something like the HTC TyTN or similar.

[Kash]

Not tried the Iphone yet..
But I would say Blackberry's are like Ronseal..
I am currently using a Nokia E65 ( Along with a BB 8820) with a Blackberry Client. It does work fairly well

[AmiSMB]

For calendaring and e-mail to an Exchange server the only option is a Microsoft Smartphone. Also then it allows you to run Sat Nav software like TomTom or CoPilot.

[showtime]

i use an HTC touch which is a windows based smartphone, small, neat, touchscreen etc! full review here http://www.coolsmartphone.com/article724.html

it has recently been updated with the TouchII which has a slide down numberpad to maake it more appealing to regular phone type customers, but tbh i downloaded a touch phonepad for mine which means you can do pretty much everything without the stylus! just prod it with your fat fingers

Fribbers i see on coolsmartphone that your Artemis has recently been replaced by the Touch Cruise

[telboy]

hmm, blackberry's taste nicer though.