A couple of interesting data points from the smart phone world...

[Pliablemoose]

Anroid is killing Palm

Apple is soon to overtake BB in total sales

That Apple is catching up with BB is interesting, the iPhone is one trick pony versus the slew of BB devices.

 

[QueBert]

Apple's doing better considering they have ONE handset on ONE carrier. If they had iPhones with all the carriers, BB would be in the dust. I love how people say RIM is still stomping Apple, but never mention how they have dozens of handsets on every carrier, even the pre-paid ones like Metro & Cricket. I know a dozen people who left their provider to jump to AT&T just so they could get an iPhone, nobody jumps carriers to get an iPhone.

I wish Android the best, I played with my sisters boyfriends Blackberry Bold the other day to help him find the caculator. After 5 minutes with no luck I gave up. Android is the only real competition for my iPhone at the moment.

 

[DivideBYZero]

If you can't find the Calculator app on a BlackBerry you should just stick to Fisher Price....

 

[Jinny]

the calculator icon might be in the applications folder.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
If you can't find the Calculator app on a BlackBerry you should just stick to Fisher Price....

It's not logical unless you know where shit's at, I remember trying to find how to use the camera on my Pearl 8100 after I had removed it from the right side button, shit was a nightmare. Blackberries by far have one of the most counter intuitive UI I've seen. I want to adjust my volume on my Perl, HAY I have 2 buttons on the side, ringer volume up and down right? wrong! Wait, I have to go to profiles and do all kinds of shit? Ugh! AHHH so the 2 side buttons control earpiece volume, well that makes sense, wait no they don't, daamit! Once you learn the UI it's not too hard, but getting there is a trying issue. Every phone I've ever owned besides a BB that had side buttons they worked for the volume for the ringer of the speaker/earpiece.

/rant

 

[zerocool84]

It's just sad that people sill buy the iPhone and not care that it's on the worst network out there. No phone is good enough to be on a network that overcharges for horrible service.