With the market saying 'no' to Nokia's Ovi Store, what do you think can be done to change this?
I used to work for an agency that believed that Macs were better at everything. It would spend a fortune on a Mac and then only use it to do MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the interweb. It did seem like a waste of money, especially as the company in question wasn’t the best payer out there.
As a result, the company’s boss had an iPhone when they were first released. He then fumed when, a week later, the devices dropped in price. But it appears that he’s not the only one.
Tech Target has proclaimed the devices are being adopted by businesses to use as an enterprise smartphone. Whilst I doubt that all the CIOs are ordering the phones purely because they look good it possibly has something to do with it. It is, afterall, a consumer device.
The online publication has followed Tessenderlo Kerley’s CIO, Bruce Blitch (there is thankfully an L in the surname). He and a team of staff (senior of course) have been testing the device and given positive comments.
I’m not that surprised that it’s being adopted. Having tried both I think I’d still rather have the CrackBerry 8120 especially as it has WiFi on it. It’s not pretending to be something else.
I have an iPod (two in fact) and so never listen to music on the phone. I have a camera. I have a phone. I don’t really check the web on my phone because it’s rarely that urgent. So, that leaves me with the need for email and, quite simply, Blackberry is perfect for this. Especially as it has keys to easily type one.
That said, iAnywhere may make the iPhone that little bit better for email. It’s a Sybase tool and provides access to MS Exchange and Lotus Domino.
Tags: Blackberry, email
Disclaimer: i don't have an iphone or a crackberry. i prefer my nokia n95.
first, let me quote the portions of your article i'd like to comment on:
“I’m not that surprised that it’s being adopted. Having tried both I think I’d still rather have the CrackBerry 8120 especially as it has WiFi on it(1). It’s not pretending to be something else.
I have an iPod (two in fact) and so never listen to music on the phone. I have a camera. I have a phone(2). I don’t really check the web on my phone because it’s rarely that urgent(3). So, that leaves me with the need for email and, quite simply, Blackberry is perfect for this(4). Especially as it has keys to easily type one(5).”
right.
1. rather have the crackberry as it has wifi on it:
- what is it the crackberry can do with wifi that the iphone cannot? bigger screen, better browser, i'd have thought the iphone would win this part hands down. now that Truphone is available for the iPhone even my trusty VoIP on my nokia has competition (which was one of my top 3 reasons for getting this phone).
2. I have a camera. I have a phone.:
- great for you. i don't. i have a camera phone. i don't think the iPhone camera is of significant quality for anyone to feel that they don't need a normal camera as well (presuming they ever had the inclination for one). even my N95's camera (with observably greater quality than the iphone) sits dangerously close to the 'i still need a normal camera' line due to the lack of a real flash (like the N82… sweet pics from that).
- you argue against the iphone because you already have 2 ipods. silly rabbit, trix are for kids. if you didn't have the ipods (or better yet, they break/get-lost/are-stolen/become-obsolete) then your argument completely deteriorates. personally, i wouldn't listen to music on the iphone or the crackberry - i need my A2DP and neither of those offer it.
3. I don’t really check the web on my phone because it’s rarely that urgent:
- this is precisely what people used to when explaining why they didn't need the blackberry - just replace 'web' with 'email'. now fast forward to a time when checking email on the phone is quite comfortable and pleasant. sitting at my desk, i sometimes check my email on my phone (again, nokia) INSTEAD of my laptop - it's simply that pleasant. web on the phone? err… on the nokia it's bearable. feature complete but unpleasant. on the blackberry it's about the same - pretty uncomfortable. on the iphone? seriously, in the middle of my work i can imagine reaching over and tapping my phone's screen a few times rather than opening up my browser, etc etc etc.
- your argument here simply shows that you've become acclimated to the status quo.
4. So, that leaves me with the need for email and, quite simply, Blackberry is perfect for this:
- more 'perfect' than the iphone? or even my nokia? i doubt it. i get push email on my nokia. iphone users get push as well. i get attachments and support for office documents out of the box with QuickOffice. how much more perfect than this do you really think the blackberry is? this is like mac people still crying “but we're better with graphics than PCs”! — simply no longer true, if it ever was.
5. Especially as it has keys to easily type one.:
- ahhh…. finally a valid point. good point, Rob.
The newest iPhone firmware (2.0) released at the same time as the 3G model includes native Exchange sync licensed directly from Microsoft, without the need for the crude 3rd party solutions developed for it initially. It works brilliantly and this week it's replaced my E61 for reading e-mail and working on my calendar. Many businesses are choosing the native Exchange solution as it does have the additional management and license costs of the Blackberry Enterprise solution. The keyboard, agreed, is love-it or hate-it.
The iPhone has WiFi support - always has. It manages the switching form hotspots to mobile network better than any other phone I've used without 3rd party tools.
Dammit… now I'm going to have to go an put my Steve Jobs costume on….
You don't check the web from your phone! Is that for real?
Not even to check your own site is up and updated? To check no one has posted offensive comments?
my comment was never posted.
what - you didn't want to let my long comment point out the err of your arguments? i was moderated out? what gives? clearly you agree with my rebuttal then.
i was not biased towards the iphone (i'm a nokia guy) nor was i biased against the blackberry (i compared it favorably against my preferred device: nokia n95). but my comment was moderated out. it would have been the first reply to this article.
in short: the ONLY valid argument made above is that against the keyboard. everything else is fluff and tripe. care to read my full comment that was never posted? ask for it, i have a copy: jared.eldredge[at)gmail(dot]com.
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