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Blackberrys suck, and let me tell you why.

Posted by mrchadmane on Thursday, March 05, 2009

I've had an iPhone for a while. Unfortunately, I used to have a Blackberry, because they were the best thing there was at the time. They are terrible. If you own a Blackberry and think you've got a "real" phone, stop kidding yourself. Its a scam. If you are professionally able, switch to a different phone. Of course, my experiences come from dealing with AT&T, a company that has dropped about 15 notches in my opinion scale as each new dropped call, bill discrepency, or lie they tell.

1. With a iPhone $30 a month covers unlimited internet and texting. They want $30 a month for "unlimited internet" for a blackberry. This doesn't include SMS. Unlimited SMS costs another $15... So thats $20 or $45 a MONTH for the SAME THING. Not to mention the internet on the blackberry is HORRIBLE!
2. Apparently putting any kind of storage on the phone is a crime at Blackberry, you pay an arm and a leg for the phone and then you have to buy a memory card? SUCKY.
3. The keyboard is too small and the keyboards keep getting smaller in newer phones. I had the pearl, and the keypad was annoying and it was not user friendly.
4. There is no way to control the volume and profiles on the phone with it locked.
5. My phone in high school, like almost 10 years ago, had a better UI than the blackberry's UI.
6. They are just now adding DIGITAL cameras. Its 2009.
7. Trying to download software over GPRS and having to restart every time you don't make it through the 30 minute process without a hiccup. Honestly, I haven't had to deal with something this stupid since Z-Modem was released.
8. They are charging your company a bunch of money to run this system that allows you to access your email from your cellphone. Its called IMAP over SSL, and its MUCH MUCH cheaper than a Blackberry Enterprise Server. In fact, ITS FREE.
9. Figuring out the phones features is a little annoying, to say the least.
10. att.blackberry.net... Worst email domain ever.
11. All your contacts have to be saved to your phone or SIM, so whats the point of the memory card? And if you want to put them on your SIM, you can only have 1 number per contact. LAME.

The bottom line is the iPhone puts the Blackberry to shame. And not just the iPhone, the HTC Pro is even better than the Blackberry.


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