The DIS via Blackberry

[DaParkers]

Had a Treo.....hated it.

Have I told you awesome my 3G iPhone is?

If I havent....it's AWESOME.

I love my Blackbeery. Blackberry has a 3g phone coming soon.(Blackberry Bold). The Iphone is good, but I like having a phone that not every other person has. So many people have the Iphone that it's lost all appeal to me. But, I will not speak badly about it. If you like it, then that;s all that matters.

 

[CleveRocks]

I personally don't see any advantage of having an iPhone or BlackBerry over a regular phone except being able to check and respond to your e-mails and browse the web on-the-go. If you wanted to take your e-mails and the Internet with you, you could use and iPod Touch and connect to a WiFi network. That's what I use, and I am completely satisfied.

You just said some VERY substantial advantages of a BlackBerry over s standard phone. Access to e-mail and Internet is a HUGE advantage. And it can be done anywhere there is standard phone service, not just in a special WiFi hot spot.

I'm not saying these are life and death differences, but to say that these differences are inconsequential ignores the obvious.

 

[robind]

I currently have a Treo and have been waiting for the company I work for to 'support' the iPhone. I just ordered it last Friday and it hopefully will be waiting for me when I get home the end of next week.

My biggest problem w/ the Treo is it doesn't work in Europe - which means I had to go buy a prepaid global phone that I have been using since January while out of the country.

Also, I like the idea of only having to travel w/ one gadget, instead of currently the global phone, the treo and an ipod.

 

[Minniemouse07]

Really? I have great service from home to King of Prussia.

I love my iPhone. I'm not an Apple Nazi, but the interface is super awesome. Plus having Internet everywhere is so freaking cool.

As a graphic designer, I can't do any work, besides email, on a phone. So it's my all in one toy.

I only have wi-fi at home, so a iTouch just wouldn't do it for me.

Kevin, how's the coverage in the parks?

Dh and I are in the Fort Washington area and he commutes to Philly on SEPTA. We used to have AT&T and there is a HUGE dead spot on the R5 Doylestown line between Fern Rock to just past Jenkintown. Service goes in and out and it drives both dh and I NUTS!

Dh used to work in the 'burbs and I worked in the city...now he's there and I commute to Chesterbrook every day. Verizon really has been the most reliable network for us.

Someday when the iPhone is available on Verizon maybe I'll give up my Pinkberry!

 

[irisbud]

I can fully get on DIS and pretty much everything else on the internet, see pics, pull up menus, etc. from my Centro. Came in really handy on the last day of our ttrip last year when deciding where to eat. I have had no problems at all with it except for the touchscreen: one of the touchscreen options while using it as a phone (what a novel concept) is hangup. I touch it with my face all of the time and hangup on people!

 

[daneenm]

Just one comment on the AT&T network. We had Cingular when they were bought out by AT&T. Loved the Cingular coverage...HATED the AT&T coverage. Lots of dead spots, etc. We switched to Verizon.

Fast forward a few years. We bit the bullet and switched back to AT&T when we got our iPhones and I am the first to admit how much it has improved in our area. It is a very significant improvement. So, all this to say, it might be worth asking about what they have done in your area in the last couple of years to remove the dead spots.

On the phone topic..DH has a Blackberry for work. He was very happy with it, over other choices they had in the past, until he got an iPhone for his personal phone. Now the Blackberry feels clunky in most aspects comparatively. I love my iPhone.

The good news is, if you don't, there are lots of other choices out there for you. No need to get all bothered by folks who choose differently.

--Daneen

 

[lorax123]

I only drive to Pottstown but my sales territory goes down into Collegeville, Skippack area. I do drive 422 a lot!
BTW....since you live in Boyertown..are you a Boyertown grad? My DH is.

I graduated from Souderton. But DW graduated from Boyertown in 92.

It's cool to find someone in the neighborhood is a fan of the podcAst too.

 

[lorax123]

Dh and I are in the Fort Washington area and he commutes to Philly on SEPTA. We used to have AT&T and there is a HUGE dead spot on the R5 Doylestown line between Fern Rock to just past Jenkintown. Service goes in and out and it drives both dh and I NUTS!

Dh used to work in the 'burbs and I worked in the city...now he's there and I commute to Chesterbrook every day. Verizon really has been the most reliable network for us.

Someday when the iPhone is available on Verizon maybe I'll give up my Pinkberry!

this area is so large, every carrier must have a good spot and bad spots. At&t coverage is more impressive than our tmobile (but that did improve over the contract).


I still hit an occasional dead zone. But it's usualy In hilly areas when I'm out the sticks.

Still loving my phone as I post away at work

 

[timmac]

I graduated from Souderton. But DW graduated from Boyertown in 92.

It's cool to find someone in the neighborhood is a fan of the podcAst too.

Though I'm not still there, thought I'd throw into the mix that I grew up for most of my life in King of Prussia (which you had mentioned earlier)

 

[lorax123]

Though I'm not still there, thought I'd throw into the mix that I grew up for most of my life in King of Prussia (which you had mentioned earlier)

cool. I'm in KoP 'working' right now!

 

[thadarkslayer]

Replying from my Moto Q9h... I just upgraded from a SLVR a few weeks ago, and 3G is my new best friend.

 

[Strangeite]

LOL!!!

I felt the exact same way. I loved my Blackberry and thought how stupid are these iPhone people. Then I played with one.

Well, now I am a proud owner of a iPhone 3G. I thought websurfing was easy before; but, I had no idea of what it COULD be like.

I must admit, for the first three days the keyboard (or lack thereof) annoyed me. Now that I have grown used to it, the keyboard on my wife's Blackberry annoys me.

 

[thadarkslayer]

See, that's the thing...I attempted to type a message at the AT&T store on an iPhone, and it just wasn't working for me. Considering the fact that I'm a text-aholic, I just wasn't comfortable getting something that I knew I'd go crazy trying to text with even if only at first.

 

[DisneyKevin]

The keyboard does take a bit of getting used to...but after that....you'll wonder how you ever did it the other way.

 

[luke]

that's so true!! When I first tried it in the o2 store, I couldn't do it at all, but once I got my own it took me only a few days to get used to it! And the auto correct works brilliantly, useful for someone with chubbier fingers like mine