Comments on: Apple, Palm seen cutting into BlackBerry sales

By: Ed Russo, Palo Alto, CA

Ed Russo, Palo Alto, CA — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:58:34 +0000

Those of you who consider the iPhone a TOY is only demonstrating that you do not know anything about the OS/platform. The iPhone's platform is amazing. Before you stick your foot in your mouth, I recommend educating yourself completely about the iPhone OS..there is no phone that can do what the iPhone platform can do… do your research. 3G and 3GS

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:38:12 +0000

“Setting up email, for instance, was a 20-minute pain — versus a 2-minute breeze on the iPhone"……I think this guy was drunk when he was trying to do that.

By: Haris, Blacksburg, VA

Haris, Blacksburg, VA — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:54:05 +0000

20 mins to setup email? There is no way. The only thing required is to type in your email address and password.

By: Frank Castle, Queens, NY

Frank Castle, Queens, NY — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:31:58 +0000

Dan is far from a technical reviewer and is one of the biggest Apple fan boys out there so this "review" is a bit skeptical.

RIM will be fine and the Tour will sell like crazy on Verizon AND Sprint as they both have not had a new standard Blackberry since the Curve 8330's .. add the updated Storm this fall and at&t's next device and while they may have a slowdown things will ramp right back up while iPhone sales drop just like they have done after the launch hype.

RIM has more carriers and a wider range of price points combined with the best in class enterprise backend that no one has equaled.

By: Elie, Toronto, Ontario

Elie, Toronto, Ontario — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:24:57 +0000

I have to agree that iPhone can be a nice toy, however it doesn't get thrown away after a week. It's probably the best mobile browser. The Map application is much faster for location and easier to use than what BlackBerry offer, but again, no one beats the BB email efficiency. I carry both devices (BB for email and iPhone for Web, music and games).

To James, if you configure 7 email accounts on your iPhone good luck with the battery usage; this means 7 different unoptimized connections vs. a single optimized connection on BB. that's why my phone bill when roaming overseas is $1000 on average per week for iPhone if data roaming is enabled vs. $100 for BB.

unfortunately will have to continue carrying both for a while until one device can meet my heavy needs.

By: thehayden

thehayden — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:16:24 +0000

What goes around comes around

The problem, according to Walkley, is that carriers like Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile have been soft-peddling the BlackBerries and promoting new devices from Apple and Palm.

By: John, Vancouver

John, Vancouver — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:05:14 +0000

I don't know how you got your hands on the BlackBerry Tour but the Tour is not even out. I would agree iPhone is a toy that a kid would use for a week and toy around with and get tired of it. In terms of daily use, there is no other smartphone that comes even close to the BlackBerry that increases productivity and organization.

By: James, Toronto, Ontario

James, Toronto, Ontario — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:31:08 +0000

It took me 0.00 seconds to set up my MobileMe email account because my Apple account already has all my information, don't know why this anonymous guy needs 20 to 30 seconds to set up his blackberry email account. When I include my hotmail, gmail and 5 other email accounts into my iPhone all I did was type in my email address and iPhone did everything else automatically. I spent a grand total of 30 seconds to include all my 7 email accounts into my iPhone and I haven't had any problem since. I got autosync email and messages on all my accounts through MobileMe which also auto-translates my email and messages from Chinese to English and vice versa. My MobileMe even autosync all my calendars and contacts, manages my appointments with attachments and notifies my associates without skipping a beat. The GPS even guides me turn by turn to my meetings including bus and plane schedules, bus terminal and airplane terminal, meeting room location and attachments. I also do net meetings with my camera and speaker, remote access to meeting equipments, VPN, remote desktop etc. I am hooking up my iPhone with my company's SAP Enterprise Portal accessing all my SAP workitems using the UWL as well as logging into the SAP ECC 6.0 instances to execute SAP transactions and programs through SAP WebDynpro or BSP or even native SAP ABAP. There is nothing more powerful than iPhone in this planet. People are just as powerful as what they know, or fail to know.

By: Jeff, Fremont, CA

Jeff, Fremont, CA — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:44:37 +0000

Buy one get one free deal can only work so long. The glory days are over for BlackBerry I'm afraid.

By: Patrick, Houston, TX

Patrick, Houston, TX — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:41:50 +0000

The iPhone is a great seller because it is a toy and it provides lots of applications to play with….. you just have to ignore it's actual cell phone quality and pricey AT&T minimum monthly rates. The problem for RIM is that folks are comparing a solid device like the Blackberry 8900 to an iPhone pop culture game toy…and that isn't going to chanve. RIM now has to figure-out how to deal with a consumer market the views their products in the same category as music players.