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General Discussion => General Discussion Boards => Technology and Gaming => Topic started by: carolynt on November 13, 2010, 02:12:54 pm
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Quite self-explanatory.
Daddy's offerring me both options.
Automatically I shot-gun the Blackberry because it's gorgeous with the qwerty keyboard and sophistication.
Does anyone want to put in their 2c?
I guess a bit of background is:
I'm associated more with the 'corporate' or 'business woman' title hence I like the sleek and elegance of the Blackberry, and I don't really 'game' much unless it's that Brain Challenge or that Ninja Fruit game but I guess that's when I'm with other people.
I guess my question is whether that I should hold off on the Blackberry for another two years when I'm in 3rd year university or later?
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Blackberry will make you look old :P
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Blackberry will make you look old :P
i agree, go for the iPhone 4
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Iphone 4 main disadvantages:
•Hardware design is prone to reception issues
•MicroSIM card support only
•No Flash support in the web browser
•No true multitasking for all applications
•FaceTime video calls work only over Wi-Fi
•No file transfer over Bluetooth or USB Mass Storage mode
•No hardware shutter key for the camera
•No FM radio
•No stereo speakers
•No microSD card slot
•No smart dialing
•Too dependent on iTunes for loading multimedia content
•Poor loudspeaker performance
Personally, I'd never buy it.
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Since you're more of the business person type, I would recommend buying one of the new phones that have Windows Phone 7 installed. It's new and trendy, Blackberry is an outdated piece of technology. (Nokia is worse)
Take a look at these,
http://www.mobicity.com.au/htc.html?os=291
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Blackberry will make you look old :P
i agree, go for the iPhone 4
Hey, hey, hey! Calm down now children, the BB is pretty!
Iphone 4 main disadvantages:
•Hardware design is prone to reception issues
•MicroSIM card support only
•No Flash support in the web browser
•No true multitasking for all applications
•FaceTime video calls work only over Wi-Fi
•No file transfer over Bluetooth or USB Mass Storage mode
•No hardware shutter key for the camera
•No FM radio
•No stereo speakers
•No microSD card slot
•No smart dialing
•Too dependent on iTunes for loading multimedia content
•Poor loudspeaker performance
Personally, I'd never buy it.
Wait does the BB have FM radio? That would be mad. Then again the iPhone is more about the applications, isn't it?
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I'm associated more with the 'corporate' or 'business woman' title hence I like the sleek and elegance of the Blackberry, and I don't really 'game' much unless it's that Brain Challenge or that Ninja Fruit game but I guess that's when I'm with other people.
I guess my question is whether that I should hold off on the Blackberry for another two years when I'm in 3rd year university or later?
So many people have a Blackberry nowadays that it has lost its "businessperson" look. I have one and I'm hardly "corporate". The Bold still comes with a few games and you can buy more, just like iPhone apps.
Depends on what you need a phone for.
Edit: no it doesn't have an FM radio (that I know of *goes to check*)
Edit 2: can't find a radio function though it took me about 3 months to realise it had a stopwatch, so...
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Since you're more of the business person type, I would recommend buying one of the new phones that have Windows Phone 7 installed. It's new and trendy, Blackberry is an outdated piece of technology. (Nokia is worse)
Take a look at these,
http://www.mobicity.com.au/htc.html?os=291
Thanks for the link - dad had an HTC when it was first introduced. I asked him, "What the hell is HTC?" Now it's quite well known which is funny.
I guess I wanted to say, people associate me with the persona. I would totally go for something like that if I had my own business but right now I've just graduated, but doing my last exam on Wednesday.
I'm associated more with the 'corporate' or 'business woman' title hence I like the sleek and elegance of the Blackberry, and I don't really 'game' much unless it's that Brain Challenge or that Ninja Fruit game but I guess that's when I'm with other people.
I guess my question is whether that I should hold off on the Blackberry for another two years when I'm in 3rd year university or later?
So many people have a Blackberry nowadays that it has lost its "businessperson" look. I have one and I'm hardly "corporate". The Bold still comes with a few games and you can buy more, just like iPhone apps.
Depends on what you need a phone for.
Edit: no it doesn't have an FM radio (that I know of *goes to check*)
Edit 2: can't find a radio function though it took me about 3 months to realise it had a stopwatch, so...
Wow wouldn't the gaming be difficult?
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Not really... I guess you're thinking of iPhone type apps. The games mine came with are BrickBreaker, some word games, Klondike which is just Solitaire, Sudoku and poker (lol). I wouldn't really know how easy they are to play though since I'm not really a phone games person.
It's a good phone if you like to keep in touch / do work on the move - good browser, good email program, comes with a Google-maps-like GPS which helps because even though I work in the city I still get lost all the time, instant messaging, and it can read word/powerpoint/excel files (and if you're willing to pay a bit of money, you can create them on the phonet too - if not, there's a free Wordpad-like program you can use).
HTC phones are better though.
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Not really... I guess you're thinking of iPhone type apps. The games mine came with are BrickBreaker, some word games, Klondike which is just Solitaire, Sudoku and poker (lol). I wouldn't really know how easy they are to play though since I'm not really a phone games person.
It's a good phone if you like to keep in touch / do work on the move - good browser, good email program, comes with a Google-maps-like GPS which helps because even though I work in the city I still get lost all the time, instant messaging, and it can read word/powerpoint/excel files (and if you're willing to pay a bit of money, you can create them on the phonet too - if not, there's a free Wordpad-like program you can use).
HTC phones are better though.
HTC - like having a laptop in your pocket?
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HTC - like having a laptop in your pocket?
Yep. You can create/edit/share word/powerpoint/excel documents and read .pdf's, amongst a whole other variety of options. (WP7 that is)
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HTC - like having a laptop in your pocket?
Yep. You can create/edit/share word/powerpoint/excel documents and read .pdf's, amongst a whole other variety of options. (WP7 that is)
Sweet I guess I'll see what my dad brings home unless he's waiting til after exams. HMM!
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Android, anyone?
iPhone is for people (read:women) who want a phone and want to play games. Blackberry is for people (read:douches) who think they are important. WP7 is for people (read:geeks-who-call-themselves-developers) who want the capability of doing everything (until they realise it's a damn phone and you don't use a bloody phone to do those things). Android is for people (read:geeks-who-are-comfortable-with-being-geeks) whose life is so controlled by Google that the platform is designed by Google to have good integration with Google services.
And I, for one, welcome our Google overlords. I use an android phone.
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Android, anyone?
iPhone is for people who want a phone and want to play games. Blackberry is for people who think they are important. WP7 is for people who want the capability of doing everything (until they realise it's a damn phone and you don't use a bloody phone to do those things). Android is like the iPhone but with ridiculously good integration with Google services.
And I, for one, welcome our Google overlords. I use an android phone.
Haven't heard of that.
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Android, anyone?
iPhone is for people who want a phone and want to play games. Blackberry is for people who think they are important. WP7 is for people who want the capability of doing everything (until they realise it's a damn phone and you don't use a bloody phone to do those things). Android is like the iPhone but with ridiculously good integration with Google services.
And I, for one, welcome our Google overlords. I use an android phone.
Haven't heard of that.
Samsung Galaxy S, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, HTC Legend, HTC Desire, Nexus One, Motorola Milestone (etc etc etc)
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Agree with Mao, I have a HTC Desire.
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It's true, blackberries have that stigma :(
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HTC Desire Z mother fuckers.
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I don't like HTC's. I think it's a psychological thing.
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dell venue pro FTW, business style, vertical qwerty, WP7
coming out pretty soon.
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Choice of 'smartphone' is often reflective of one's political worldview:
"Does this surprise anyone? New research shows that your choice of smartphone reflects your political persuasion: Left-wingers, it seems, favour the iPhone - while those on the Right prefer BlackBerrys. The research by CALinnovates.org is based on a poll of 600 Californian voters in the state’s gubernatorial election, which decides later this year who will replace Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2011.
The results show that:
* One in 7 voters (16 per cent) owns an iPhone, and by a wide margin (57 per cent to 31 per cent), they favour Jerry Brown, the unannounced Democratic front-runner, over Republican Meg Whitman in the race for governor.
* One in 5 voters (21 per cent) owns a BlackBerry or other smartphone, and they prefer Whitman for governor (47 per cent to 38 per cent over Brown).
At Harry’s Place, Gordon MacMillan reckons a UK poll would find similar results, and that Apple, “with its cool design and sleek look, has always had a particular liberal creative appeal as part of its brand.” This compares, of course, “to the dull corporatism of [Apple's] rivals”.
Which is exactly what I thought two weeks ago when I ditched my BlackBerry Curve for an iPhone. It was cooler, sleeker and had a creative appeal. And all those great Apps!
But the iPhone just doesn’t cut the mustard. My BlackBerry was quicker online, more reliable with emails, easier to type on and overall a better product… I was momentarily taken in by that dangerous Left-wing idea that intentions, appearances and promises are more important than results. More fool me."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100025505/are-you-a-leftie-iphone-smoothie-or-a-right-wing-blackberry-addict/
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But I guess that is reflective of the type of advertising that happens in the respective country.
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Android, anyone?
iPhone is for people (read:women) who want a phone and want to play games. Blackberry is for people (read:douches) who think they are important. WP7 is for people (read:geeks-who-call-themselves-developers) who want the capability of doing everything (until they realise it's a damn phone and you don't use a bloody phone to do those things). Android is for people (read:geeks-who-are-comfortable-with-being-geeks) whose life is so controlled by Google that the platform is designed by Google to have good integration with Google services.
And I, for one, welcome our Google overlords. I use an android phone.
Consider me a woman then. :P
I am so over the whole customization bullshit.
I just want something simple, and iOS is so idiot proof and easy to use that I love it.
I am not a Mac Fanboy by any stretch, and I would never buy a Mac, they are ridiculously overpriced and I am not a fan of leopard.
iPhones on the other hand are just quality, and are more reasonably priced than the competition on many plans.
They look sleek, have the best battery.
And when it comes to a phone, something which you carry around everywhere and everyone sees, looks and design is a very important factor IMO. An area which apple wins hands down.
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Just my 10cents worth. The iphone is more "fun" i guess because of the huge apps they have. Blackberry's in my experience can get quite boring, for a teenager/young adult. After "borrowing" my parent's BB for a week or so, i only used facebook, phone, and their "free" internet or whatever it is. Iphone's come with ipod, and many apps that give it more functionality. Plus the white iphone 4 is pretty good looking.
Using a HTC desire now, I feel like a geek with it
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Nobody has mentioned how the iPhone 4 gives you automatic coolness.
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Nobody has mentioned how the iPhone 4 gives you automatic coolness.
HTC doesn't give you that, the iPhone is so easily distinguishable and has way more apps than HTC, etc. iPhone 4 all the way
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Got the iPhone on the business plan 2 days ago. Was broken when I got it (it randomly shut down every now and then). After waiting for it for 2 weeks, my heart almost broke as well. Thankfully, the Apple Store replaced it immediately.
Now that I have it, I must say, it is an impressive piece of technology. But its usefulness is restricted by Steve Jobs control freakiness.
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iphone 4 hands down.
i love my iphone, its so simple and can do pretty much everything youd want a phone to do - millions of applications, etc.
(had the same iphone for almost 2 years now, so getting an iphone 4 soon)
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This really should be a iPhone vs. Samsung Galaxy S vs. HTC Desire HD thread.
Blackberry is finished... :P
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If I were you, I'd go the HTC Desire or Samsung Galaxy S.
My brother just got the desire, and I got his hand-me-down iphone 3gs. Desire is so much more awesome by a LOOOOONG shot (or maybe it's the IT nerd in me LOVING the customisability and widgets, etc.)
But anyway, if you get an iphone go for a 3gs over an iphone 4 - way cheaper and almost the same in terms of functionality. Also, google "antennagate".
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If I were you, I'd go the HTC Desire or Samsung Galaxy S.
My brother just got the desire, and I got his hand-me-down iphone 3gs. Desire is so much more awesome by a LOOOOONG shot (or maybe it's the IT nerd in me LOVING the customisability and widgets, etc.)
But anyway, if you get an iphone go for a 3gs over an iphone 4 - way cheaper and almost the same in terms of functionality. Also, google "antennagate".
I agree that those are impressive devices, but unless you are a 'geek' then they still lose to an iPhone IMO. Android will never beat iOS until they can come out with a dumbed down version that is simple to use. I doubt Google will do this because they are all into freedom and customization.
And those phones have bigger screens, which initially seems like a plus, but they drain battery big time. Apparently you can struggle to get a day out of them.
Apple kinda screwed up on the whole signal loss thing on the iPhone 4, but the next one will be a killer. :D
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If I were buying one of these phone for one of my parents, it would definitely be the blackberry, to avoid all the questions I would be bombarded with regarding how to unlock the phone, how to use apps, how to turn on the phone, etc. if either of my parents had an iPhone/android phone.
If I were buying a phone for one of my not-particularly-technologically-inclined friends, it would have to be the iPhone, for it's sheer ease, fun and utility.
If I were buying a phone for me, my brother, or one of my more tech-geeky friends, HTC Desire all the way.
But hey, I would take any of these in a flash, on account of the fact that I'm stuck with a 5-year-old Sony Ericsson brick, because my good phone got run over by a car :(
It really depends on what you look for in a phone. I've always been a massive tech nerd (more nerd than geek, I would say...)
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Dear All:
Got the BB Bold 9700.
Thanks for your two cents!
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Iphone vs Android vs Blackberry ;)
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Iphone vs Android vs Blackberry ;)
hahaha. what you doin up at this hour ? :P
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Iphone vs Android vs Blackberry ;)
hahaha. what you doin up at this hour ? :P
i could ask you the same question ;)
i decided not to sleep tonight ha... so just being browsing the web/watching anime.. lawl
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iPhone 4. Hands Down!!!
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I don't like the blackberry that much. Then again, I don't buy the latest phone model, i just get my free upgrade every 24 months :(
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Nobody has mentioned how the iPhone 4 gives you automatic coolness.
HTC doesn't give you that, the iPhone is so easily distinguishable and has way more apps than HTC, etc. iPhone 4 all the way
Exactly. Coolness is definitely better than user-friendliness or cost or better specs.
That's why I go iPhone4 all the way! Of course, me being a fanboy and have no idea what other phones have, refuse to admit otherwise.
Moderator action: removed real name, sorry for the inconvenience
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How does iPhone = automatic coolness? It's just getting the phone that everyone, everywhere tells you is the best, without even doing some independent research and finding out what other phones are on the market. Apple's got a monopoly on the handset market, hence they can charge exorbitant prices for their products and no-one bats an eyelid. Why spend so much on an iPhone, when you can get a smartphone loaded with android/wp7 that is as good as, if not better than, an iPhone? Android has almost as many apps available as iOS, and you can get one for as little as $200-300 outright, as opposed to $800-1000. Granted, the low-end one's aren't great, but even the HTC phones around the $500 mark could rival the iPhone.
Independent thinking is the heart of innovation and cultural progression. Don't be fankids.
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Iphone vs Android vs Blackberry ;)
hahaha. what you doin up at this hour ? :P
i could ask you the same question ;)
i decided not to sleep tonight ha... so just being browsing the web/watching anime.. lawl
haha, but I asked you first. :P
yeah, I couldn't sleep, plus have been downloading + watching movies like crazy!
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Nobody has mentioned how the iPhone 4 gives you automatic coolness.
But HTC Evo fucking prints money and grants you up to three wishes
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Iphone vs Android vs Blackberry ;)
hahaha. what you doin up at this hour ? :P
i could ask you the same question ;)
i decided not to sleep tonight ha... so just being browsing the web/watching anime.. lawl
haha, but I asked you first. :P
yeah, I couldn't sleep, plus have been downloading + watching movies like crazy!
haha.
well i just decided not to go to bed since i don't really need to be lively or anything cos we on holidayyzzzzZZ ;0
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But HTC Evo fucking prints money and grants you up to three wishes
I remember that video, it's still epic. Just too bad the evo isn't usable in Aus (Although the DesireHD is pretty much the same thing, without 4g)