BlackBerry vs iPhone

I was reread­ing a stu­dent paper from last fall and came across a cita­tion for this excel­lent com­par­i­son of the Black­Berry 8800 and the first gen­er­a­tion iPhone. The reviewer com­pares the two devices from an enter­prise user’s per­spec­tive. The Black­Berry car­ried the day with bet­ter sync­ing, real-time push email and WiFi con­nec­tiv­ity, but the reviewer admits that the iPhone is a nicer look­ing product.

Rumors per­sist of a touch­screen Black­Berry model, pos­si­bly called the 9000 or the 9100. The key­board is on the screen, sim­i­lar to the iPhone. Exec­u­tives would leap on these mod­els, just for the “shiny new toy” fac­tor alone. Mobile car­ri­ers would have a fresh weapon against iPhone car­ri­ers. An on-screen key­board would cer­tainly solve some inter­face prob­lems for inter­na­tional Black­Berry users. Looks like the vir­tual key­board is becom­ing a new key suc­cess fac­tor for mobile devices.

I have sev­eral arti­cles about the Black­Berry avail­able. Just type “black­berry” in the search box or use this link.

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