iPhone or Blackberry? - Page 3 - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

The Cali Ex-Pat · 10-24-2009, 01:37 AM

iPhone - I just got the 3Gs and it rocks. Internet speed is great wherever I go, map is excellent with the new GPS feature AND I bought a Motorola wireless bluetooth stereo headset - so I can listen to stuff, pause to accept calls, and then keep on listening, without taking my phone out of my pocket! Very cool. Also, Podcasts are great to listen to while working - they're free and there's one about just about any subject you can imagine. Pretty sure Apple is about to release a tablet too -- which will no doubt have some insanely great features.

bobbyho · 10-24-2009, 07:21 AM

4 months in with the Iphone 3GS and not one regret. One of the most important tools in my arsenal. I purchased the ElectricalPro app and now all the most important Code charts are in the phone, as well as electrical calculators. One less thing to carry in my briefcase (codebook has been reassigned to a shelf in the truck). Speed of the interet is no competition. Voice google for cut sheets to lighting manufacturers. Resolved a lighting design issue in about 6 seconds with it yesterday. Just my 2 cents worth. Once again, I did love my Curve but there is no comparison with the Iphone.

Chris G · 10-24-2009, 12:03 PM

I've had a BB for two years. I hate it more than any phone I have ever had. And I have had a lot of phones. I have three 20 somethings working with me, and they can't figure out how to use it either. It's okay for email, but oh my, if you ever press a wrong button and it goes into some funky mode, you will spend the next 1/2 hr getting it back to normal. Intuitive, it is not.

I will be switching to an iphone this month.

RemodelMania · 11-04-2009, 12:28 PM

I've had both and you will have to pry my iphone from my cold, dead fingers. it is so much better.

KennMacMoragh · 11-11-2009, 11:37 PM

Well so far my Blackberry has been working pretty good. The only advantages I can see over the iphone is improved e-mail, and it has a better camera. The only disadvantage so far is the voicemail, the iphones voicemail works way better.

Chris I admit the learning curve is higher with the blackberry, but it's not that bad. Maybe it's just the older models that are difficult.

wallmaxx · 11-12-2009, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by KennMacMoragh

Well so far my Blackberry has been working pretty good. The only advantages I can see over the iphone is improved e-mail, and it has a better camera. The only disadvantage so far is the voicemail, the iphones voicemail works way better.

Chris I admit the learning curve is higher with the blackberry, but it's not that bad. Maybe it's just the older models that are difficult.

Everyone says its better at email..how so?

I sync my email through mobileme as also my contacts and calendar....every computer I own is updated to the same status of information within seconds of a change or update. It is awesome.

KennMacMoragh · 11-12-2009, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by wallmaxx

Everyone says its better at email..how so?

I sync my email through mobileme as also my contacts and calendar....every computer I own is updated to the same status of information within seconds of a change or update. It is awesome.

The mobileme is a nice set up, but did you know if you have a webpage and a service provider like godaddy.com, they can offer you that same service for cheaper. It works on either the iphone or blackberry. Godaddy told me it's harder to setup on the blackberry, but it's not much of a problem, just more steps.

Anyway with the emails, I've found some advantages the blackberry has is; e-mails go through faster, they give you a separate e-mail address just for the phone, I can set up multiple e-mail accounts, I like how it notifies me when I have an e-mail, better then how the iphone does it, someone on here claims blackberry's e-mails are encrypted. It's nice having the dedicated e-mail address for the phone itself, I find I can eliminate spam better that way by setting up my business e-mail which is hosted by my web page provider (godaddy.com) to forward right to the phones e-mail address. With the iphone, all I could manage to do was set up g-mail or yahoo, which gives me a ton of spam in each. And Apple doesn't bother to set up hotmail in their e-mail system, probably because they are still mad at microsoft for copying their windows idea 20 years ago, which I think is pretty ignorant. And with the iphone, a few times I've had the problem of sending an e-mail then having it take three hours to go through, blackberry will do it instantly every time.

There's still a few bugs I need to work out with my e-mail set up. I need to set up more accounts on it, and I want to arrange it so when I send an e-mail from my computer using my business e-mail, that it will show up in my sent items folder on my blackberry. It can all be done, just a matter of setting it up, the tech support for blackberry is really good too.

Mike Finley · 11-12-2009, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Chris G

I've had a BB for two years. I hate it more than any phone I have ever had. And I have had a lot of phones.

I was the same way. I just dumped my BB for the Google phone. My God what a different experience. Touch screen is the way to go. Very intuitive, with the Google phone you figure it all out very quickly compared to the BB.

Visual voice mail too!

BKFranks · 11-12-2009, 10:15 AM

I thought I had commented on this thread before, but I guess I didn't. I had a BB and it was an ok phone, but then it took a dump on me. The track ball stopped working and the battery life got so bad that it wouldn't even last 1 day at work. So I got the iPhone. Best phone ever. So many apps for free and so many little features to make every thing so easy.

I only have one complaint with the iPhone and that is no Flash on the internet. So if a site uses Flash, you cant see it, which is pretty lame these days, but the phone is great otherwise and no way would I go back to the BB. It takes pretty good pictures too, so much so that I quit using my other camera.

MarkyMark · 11-12-2009, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Mike Finley

I was the same way. I just dumped my BB for the Google phone. My God what a different experience. Touch screen is the way to go. Very intuitive, with the Google phone you figure it all out very quickly compared to the BB.

Visual voice mail too!

Are you talking about the Droid? I've been seriously considering upgrading to that as well.

Zinsco · 11-12-2009, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by BKFranks

I only have one complaint with the iPhone and that is no Flash on the internet. So if a site uses Flash, you cant see it, which is pretty lame these days, but the phone is great otherwise and no way would I go back to the BB. It takes pretty good pictures too, so much so that I quit using my other camera.

Totally hit the nail on the head. The iPhone is awesome but since Apple makes Quicktime they won't put Flash on the iPhone. Flash has become the defacto standard, I wish Apple would surrender already. Otherwise, the iPhone is awesome.

KennMacMoragh · 11-12-2009, 10:18 PM

The voicemail is the only dumb thing I have noticed on the Blackberry, there's no visual for it, you have to call to sort through everything. But if you're comparing an old Blackberry to an iphone, that's not much of a comparison, it seems blackberry has improved quite a bit over the past two years.

brooklynite · 11-13-2009, 03:11 AM

I have been using the Android (TMobile G1) and I love it. I cant live without a physical keyboard so iPhone is a no for me. Plus the Gmail application and the search and google maps are native applications on the G1 so they work great.

Mike Finley · 11-13-2009, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by MarkyMark

Are you talking about the Droid? I've been seriously considering upgrading to that as well.

My Touch 3G

http://www.t-mobilemytouch.com/3g-phone/360

I also love the voice options on this phone, does the I phone have those?

You can search the web by voice, dial contacts by voice, dial numbers by voice etc... and it actually freak'n works!

Zinsco · 11-13-2009, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike Finley

My Touch 3G

http://www.t-mobilemytouch.com/3g-phone/360

I also love the voice options on this phone, does the I phone have those?

There's an app for that.
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BKFranks · 11-13-2009, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by brooklynite

I have been using the Android (TMobile G1) and I love it. I cant live without a physical keyboard so iPhone is a no for me. Plus the Gmail application and the search and google maps are native applications on the G1 so they work great.

I used to think that I would have a problem with not having a keyboard too. After I switched it took about a week to figure out how to type on the iPhone well. Now I have no problem. iPhone also has google maps. Google mobile app is a free download and you can simply talk and it will recognize what you say and search for it. Works every time. iPhone email does MS Exchange, Mobile ME, Gmail, YahooMail, AOL, pop3, etc. You can set it up for push or manual.

How do you get apps for blackberry? iPhone has the apps store so you can search for hundreds of thousands of programs right from the phone, download and install. You can also use iTunes.

Bone Saw · 11-13-2009, 06:43 PM

are you getting echo on the other partys end, i got the samsung impression and with the voice recog. on there is a bad echo on the other end

Bone Saw · 11-13-2009, 07:13 PM

now if iphone had a cm calculator app that would be badass

wallmaxx · 11-13-2009, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Bone Saw

now if iphone had a cm calculator app that would be badass

I'm working on one better than CM......the code writing and conversion from RPN is just killing my head.

BKFranks · 11-13-2009, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Bone Saw

now if iphone had a cm calculator app that would be badass

I have a carpenters calculator. Not as good as the construction master, but it does feet and inches, fractions, square feet, yards, and regular calculator functions. It was free so I didn't expect much.

The pay version has a bunch of stuff including pitch, run/rise, rafter lengths, stair lengths, and a bunch of other stuff. Only $4.99. Carpenters Helper. If you have an iPhone, check it out.