Why can't Blackberry come up with a model to compete with iPhone?

[jagec]

Originally posted by: AbAbber2k
iPhone

I tend to agree. I never understood the hype about the iphone. Limited storage, doesn't do anything new, ATROCIOUSLY expensive, and apparently it doesn't do some basic smart-phone tasks?

 

[MixMasterTang]

Can anyone else recommend a phone with video features? I will be traveling a lot and would like to record football games and then watch them on the plane ride, but I want to carry as few devices as possible.

 

[thehstrybean]

Blackberry is great for email. Our Sprint/Nextel rep let me have one for a day, and it was OK, but it really seemed best for email. the iPhone is something that I would NEVER buy, mainly because it's closed off (3rd party apps?), insanely expensive, and because it's another hyped up Apple product. Any smartphone with WM can do what the iPhone can. Period. And it supports 3rd party apps.

<-- Sprint HTC Mogul user

 

[DrPizza]

Moved to phones and gadgets
-Anandtech Moderator
DrPizza

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: MixMasterTang
Can anyone else recommend a phone with video features? I will be traveling a lot and would like to record football games and then watch them on the plane ride, but I want to carry as few devices as possible.

BB 8300 Curve does full screen video playback on a 320 x240 screen, supports 4Gb MicroSD cards, has a 3.5mm headphone jack and Stereo Bluetooth.

Media Player supports audio formats:
MP3, MIDI, AMR-NB, AAC/AAC+/eAAC+, WMA

Video formats: MPEG4 Part 2 Simple Profile, H.263 and WMV

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Imdmn04
Blackberry users = business users.

iPhone users = zit-popping teenagers.

Two different products marketed to two different crowds.

I agree. I have an iPhone and it is DEFINITELY not a business phone in any way, shape, or form. It is an absolutely fantastic consumer phone, but it would make a lousy business phone right now. Apple could change all that if they wanted to, but not selling the iPhone to corporate accounts says they have something else up their sleeves.

 

[venkman]

If you want iPhone style web browsing on your BB then download Opera Mini 4 Beta or Picsel Web Browser (although I don't know if Picsel would work on a BB).