Comments on: Reasons I want to ditch my T-Mobile Blackberry Curve http://www.dinafberry.com/wp/2009/04/20/reasons-i-want-to-ditch-my-t-mobile-blackberry-curve/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Programmer, Writer, Mom Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:24:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: admin http://www.dinafberry.com/wp/2009/04/20/reasons-i-want-to-ditch-my-t-mobile-blackberry-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-3 admin Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:54:33 +0000 http://www.dinafberry.com/wp/?p=9#comment-3 Thanks for responding. About this time every month, I hate my Blackberry curve. I haven't heard anything bad about the IPhone other than the cost. Thanks for the info. Thanks for responding. About this time every month, I hate my Blackberry curve.

I haven’t heard anything bad about the IPhone other than the cost. Thanks for the info.

]]> By: Dan Ridley Hallock http://www.dinafberry.com/wp/2009/04/20/reasons-i-want-to-ditch-my-t-mobile-blackberry-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Dan Ridley Hallock Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:24:06 +0000 http://www.dinafberry.com/wp/?p=9#comment-2 The iPhone addresses several of your points. The phone itself is stable and the Apple apps all work quite well. More importantly, the third-party platform is far above and beyond the rest of the field. The physical switch on the side that switches the phone to vibrate also silences all alerts and the keyboard click, so you can navigate and type silently. Exchange ActiveSync gives you push e-mail without a middleman, as long as your Exchange host supports it. Otherwise it's IMAP w/ 5-min refresh. Either way, AT&T stays out of it once they give you an IP address. There are no ping/traceroute type tools out of the box, but the $2 iStat (http://bjango.com/apps/istat/) includes them. (There are others too. I use iStat for my desktop Mac, so I get more from it.) As far as applications for native access to Web sites, looking at what I'm carrying, I have really good interfaces to Google Reader (Byline), Twitter (TwitterFon and Birdhouse), Amazon (Amazon Mobile), Flickr (Darkslide), Evernote, Last.fm, Netflix (iPhlix), and Zendesk. You do have to install iTunes, which is a behemoth if you're not already using it, and music/video sync, managing applications, etc. is all done through there. I use iTunes for my music anyway, so this has never bugged me; it also hasn't seemed to annoy the users I support as much as the BlackBerry's Roxio stuff. Thus far, the software upgrades apply to all hardware, and that includes the upcoming 3.0 OS release. There are a few features in 3.0 that aren't supported by the first-gen phones, but if the hardware is there, you get the upgrade. And finally, there's no Java support whatsoever, so you'll never see a Java runtime error :-) I have seen applications crash, and in one instance a third-party app crashed and caused the entire phone to reboot. There was also one instance where it appears the background phone process crashed; I did not receive calls or voicemail until I rebooted the phone. Both instances were frustrating, but it compares favorably to the number of crashes I've seen my BlackBerry-toting friends deal with. I've had an iPhone since January 2008, so two phone-disabling software crashes 15 months. The iPhone addresses several of your points. The phone itself is stable and the Apple apps all work quite well. More importantly, the third-party platform is far above and beyond the rest of the field.

The physical switch on the side that switches the phone to vibrate also silences all alerts and the keyboard click, so you can navigate and type silently.

Exchange ActiveSync gives you push e-mail without a middleman, as long as your Exchange host supports it. Otherwise it’s IMAP w/ 5-min refresh. Either way, AT&T stays out of it once they give you an IP address.

There are no ping/traceroute type tools out of the box, but the $2 iStat (http://bjango.com/apps/istat/) includes them. (There are others too. I use iStat for my desktop Mac, so I get more from it.)

As far as applications for native access to Web sites, looking at what I’m carrying, I have really good interfaces to Google Reader (Byline), Twitter (TwitterFon and Birdhouse), Amazon (Amazon Mobile), Flickr (Darkslide), Evernote, Last.fm, Netflix (iPhlix), and Zendesk.

You do have to install iTunes, which is a behemoth if you’re not already using it, and music/video sync, managing applications, etc. is all done through there. I use iTunes for my music anyway, so this has never bugged me; it also hasn’t seemed to annoy the users I support as much as the BlackBerry’s Roxio stuff.

Thus far, the software upgrades apply to all hardware, and that includes the upcoming 3.0 OS release. There are a few features in 3.0 that aren’t supported by the first-gen phones, but if the hardware is there, you get the upgrade.

And finally, there’s no Java support whatsoever, so you’ll never see a Java runtime error :-)

I have seen applications crash, and in one instance a third-party app crashed and caused the entire phone to reboot. There was also one instance where it appears the background phone process crashed; I did not receive calls or voicemail until I rebooted the phone. Both instances were frustrating, but it compares favorably to the number of crashes I’ve seen my BlackBerry-toting friends deal with. I’ve had an iPhone since January 2008, so two phone-disabling software crashes 15 months.

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