i phone or blackberry?

[Luv2trav]

If you had to choose which would it be?

 

[Acklander]

I chose a blackberry flip phone. I'm on my second one because the first one kept freezing and the only way I could get it to start up again was to remove the battery and then replace it (re-booting the phone). Sometimes it would freeze and I wouldn't notice for hours therefore missing many calls. You can tell when it freezes because the clock was frozen as well. They finally sent me a second phone about 4 months ago, after several months of arguing with them on why it needed to be replaced. A couple of weeks ago the second phone started doing the same thing,so I guess I have another battle ahead of me. I was talking to a co-worker and he mentioned that his wife had the same phone and it had the same problem. He replacement phone is working fine though.

 

[Shutterbug]

depends...
IMO, do you want a phone that you can get lots of apps for or do you want a phone that you can actually have service for.

I myself would like and Iphone but wont go near ATT service with the trouble I had with them few years back plus what other friends have had trouble with.

I have a friend lives on the north side of Akron with an Iphone, he often has zero bars.

 

[LoraJ]

I would love an iphone, but I do not want AT&T.

I just recently got a BlackBerry Curve and really love it. Definitely not as many apps as an iphone, but there are some decent ones, like Pandora.

I like the actual qwerty keyboard compared to the touch screen. I have an iPod Touch to give me an apps fix, but I don't like surfing the net on the iPod compared to my Curve.

For the curve I got Opera Mini for web surfing and it is so easy to scroll and zoom in.

 

[onelilspark]

I think it's more to do with service providers. I have Sprint on my blackberry and I hate it. It's not really my phone that I hate, it's Sprint!

My boyfriend has the iPhone. Around here AT&T is great, but once you leave the Rochester area, service suffers.

If I had my choice, I'd pick a blackberry on Verizon

 

[HonnyDipp]

I thought about leaving breaking my contract with Sprint and going to AT&T for the iPhone. But when I found out they dont insure the iPhone, I had a quick change of heart. I have children, accidents happen, and the thought of something happening to my iPhone, I'm responsible for buying a new one. So I stay with Sprint. I used my credits $150 and purchased the Blackberry Curve 8330 last Friday. I LOVE THIS PHONE!!! The browser is very fast, the camera is awesome and the battery life is amazing. I wonder why I waited so long to get this phone!

 

[ehartman4]

If I HAD to pick, I'd choose a Blackberry just because the iPhone plan seems like a rip off.

 

[MushyMushy]

I love my Blackberry Curve, but if I could I'd get an iPhone. I love my iPod Touch and would get a lot of use out of the iPhone.

Like a few others, I can't stand AT&T. Our service here is pretty lousy, plus in order to get the data plan for the iPhone, we'd have to pay for it for each person in the house. As it is, DH has the iPhone with data plan for himself (his company pays for his), and my data plan is shared between the kids and me. If I'd gotten the iPhone, the kids couldn't share the data plan.

 

[mickey&minnie04]

I thought about leaving breaking my contract with Sprint and going to AT&T for the iPhone. But when I found out they dont insure the iPhone, I had a quick change of heart. I have children, accidents happen, and the thought of something happening to my iPhone, I'm responsible for buying a new one. So I stay with Sprint. I used my credits $150 and purchased the Blackberry Curve 8330 last Friday. I LOVE THIS PHONE!!! The browser is very fast, the camera is awesome and the battery life is amazing. I wonder why I waiting so long to get this phone!

I would look into that more if I were you...I have an iphone and have the insurance on it.....it was recommended that we get it, especially when they rang up the phones and it came to $1600.00....that was before the discounts for new service were applied and that was for 2 iphones and a phone that they offered for free. I left the blackberry pearl for the iphone and love the iphone soooo much more! There were things on the blackberry that I never used, its a great phone for the someone who uses it alot for business. Besides the apps for the iphone are so much more fun! Now if only I could get the actual service that sprint had, but the customer service of at&t then I would be extremely happy!

 

[mickey&minnie04]

If I HAD to pick, I'd choose a Blackberry just because the iPhone plan seems like a rip off.

I went from the blackberry to the iphone and the plan pricing is pretty much the same....what ever you chose for your monthly plan plus $30 for the data plan. Both Sprint and At&t's data plan was the same price for me and offered the same features.

 

[HonnyDipp]

I would look into that more if I were you...I have an iphone and have the insurance on it.....it was recommended that we get it, especially when they rang up the phones and it came to $1600.00....that was before the discounts for new service were applied and that was for 2 iphones and a phone that they offered for free. I left the blackberry pearl for the iphone and love the iphone soooo much more! There were things on the blackberry that I never used, its a great phone for the someone who uses it alot for business. Besides the apps for the iphone are so much more fun! Now if only I could get the actual service that sprint had, but the customer service of at&t then I would be extremely happy!

Well Gee, maybe its a location thing? Because the AT&T store in my area told me that the phone wasnt insured! I already have an iTouch, so I get the apps there. I had a Palm Treo and it was ok, but it was sooooo slow!!! For now, I'm satisfied with the Blackberry I'm on Twitter & Facebook alot, so the Blackberry is perfect for me!

thanks for the advice though! Have a good morning!

 

[ehartman4]

I went from the blackberry to the iphone and the plan pricing is pretty much the same....what ever you chose for your monthly plan plus $30 for the data plan. Both Sprint and At&t's data plan was the same price for me and offered the same features.

The reason I think it's a rip off is because you have to get the iPhone plan, whereas with a Blackberry you can just buy the actual phone (for some carriers. Verizon does not let you do this.) and not have to pay the extra $30 a month for internet if you don't want it.

 

[mickey&minnie04]

The reason I think it's a rip off is because you have to get the iPhone plan, whereas with a Blackberry you can just buy the actual phone (for some carriers. Verizon does not let you do this.) and not have to pay the extra $30 a month for internet if you don't want it.

When we had blackberries we had sprint and they told us that our phones would no longer work if we didn't have the data plan That was another reason we left Sprint, because you would get a different answer every time you talked to someone new and they don't have direct numbers for call back so you would have to speak to someone new and go through your problem all over again! They are both great phones, you really can't go wrong either way! I must say though, if you get a blackberry that has a trackball you may want to get the insurance because that will eventually stop working and then you can't do anything with your phone. Our's both went after having the phone for about a year.

 

[stczt]

I think we have every blackberry, dh has to get the newest of everything. He left t mobile to go to Verizon to try the storm, he hated it so he went to at&t and loves his iphone. It does alot of things for work the blackberry didn't.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

If you have fingernails the i phone might be tough to use.
I have a hard time using DHs & I don't have very long nails.

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

The iPhone is the best hardware on the market right now. The problem - AT&T is the worst provider available. I have a Storm and would love to get an iPhone. I will only do so when Verizon is allowed to sell them...

 

[OK!]

I've had AT&T service for something like 10 years. I have had 2 BlackBerries, a Curve and a Bold, and liked them both. Then I went to the iPhone 3GS and am totally, completely in love. Not that my BB service was awful; it's just that the iPhone better meets my needs. I used to carry a BB and a 16GB iPod Touch to work with me every day (we can watch/listen to movies & TV shows and whatever while we work) and once I got my 32GB iPhone (for much cheaper than it would have been to upgrade the Touch to a 32GB), I was able to sell the Touch and consolidate. My reception has been improved, which I know is supposed to be a reflection of the network and not the device, but the fact remains that it is HUGELY improved over what it was with both the Curve and the Bold. I used to drop calls constantly in my apartment; that hasn't happened once since June 19.

Of course, YMMV. If AT&T's coverage is bad in your area, it would be foolish to switch to the iPhone. There are rumors that the iPhone may be available to other service providers sometime next year, but I can't attest to the veracity of them.

 

[OK!]

I went from the blackberry to the iphone and the plan pricing is pretty much the same....what ever you chose for your monthly plan plus $30 for the data plan. Both Sprint and At&t's data plan was the same price for me and offered the same features.

Ditto this. The pricing was exactly the same for me when I switched.

 

[Luv2trav]

depends...
IMO, do you want a phone that you can get lots of apps for or do you want a phone that you can actually have service for.

I myself would like and Iphone but wont go near ATT service with the trouble I had with them few years back plus what other friends have had trouble with.

I have a friend lives on the north side of Akron with an Iphone, he often has zero bars.

We have ATT right now and have no issues with service. We will stick with ATT with blackberry or i phone.

 

[Luv2trav]

If you have fingernails the i phone might be tough to use.
I have a hard time using DHs & I don't have very long nails.

Funny you mention that. I just had my nail removed.. hee hee..