I finally pulled the plug on it and decided to sell my iPhone. Now I am back
to my Verizon wireless BlackBerry 8830 and boy am I happy – no ELATED!!! If you truly need the features of the BlackBerry, the iPhone won’t replace the BlackBerry. I’ve had my iPhone for two months and here’s what the iPhone
"does not" have in comparison to the BlackBerry 8830:
· No voice memo option
· No voice text option
· No real keyboard – can’t get with that touchscreen
keyboard.
· No auto text (I set up in my blackberry that if
I type "plmk" it types out "please let me know" and a 100
other auto texts I set up to be fast and efficient
· No cut and paste (are you kidding me?)
· No help feature within the phone itself
· No draft option for emails or texts (I was in
the middle of a long one, my phone rang, poof, my email was gone when I hung
up.
· No ring profiles (at night I put my bb 8830 in
phone only mode for emergiencies and then texts and emails don’t ring all night
· No search feature (for finding emails, texts,
calls or subject matters)
· Capitalization requires two strokes on the
keyboard, bb8830 only one (holding down the key)
· No way to jump to the bottom of a long email or
texts or to the bottom of a list of emails or texts
· No way to start typing the name of the person I
want to call. I have to remember how I organized their name in my almost 1000
list of contacts in order to call them.
· Doesn’t sync the tasks from my Outlook
· No speed dialing
· No LED light to tell me I have missed a call,
have a text, email or alarm. I have to physically pick up the phone to look at
it.
· No way to easily add a phone number contained in
the text of an email and add it to address book (in the bb8830 you select the
number, menu, add to address book, done!)
· No cut and paste. THAT’S RIGHT, I SAID IT AGAIN!
· No camera settings menu from the camera option,
no zoom
· My 1st calender entry repeated itself for a week
(even though I coded it "repeat: none" and blocked out 8 hours for
each of those days, even though it was a 1/2 hour appt.)
Fancy webpage graphics and music won’t fix all this. I’m lucky enough to work
in the corporate world at home and my BB keeps me efficient and mobile. Wish I
read a post like this before I got caught up in the iPhone bedazzlement.
FYI…I’m selling my iPhone w/all the extras…anyone interested email me!
I’m with you on this one. I’m not a BB fan AT ALL. I’m more of a fan of all windows enabled PDA. My MDA (Mobile Digital Assistant) goes with me WHEREVER I go. I want it in my grave when I check outta here. I have an IPOD touch – figured I’d try that out for size first before moving to an iphone. I’m glad I did. It’s for entertainment purposes really. It’s not for movers and shakers. Now, the itouch…um, that’s one neat little gadget that I can’t live without. It makes flying and waiting in airports seem virtually non-existent because it will keep you busy. And the video on it – whew! It’s clear as glass.
Um…Pastor…I think you should try a different sales pitch before you attempt to sell the phone…LOL! I’m jus’ sayin’…after reading the blog…I’d think twice about buying an iPhone.