Posted by Mauricio on Jun 23, 2009 at 11:14 AM | Comments
I liked reading this article because the author, Andrew R Hickey, is objective in the sense that he openly admits he does like the iPhone but believes the BlackBerry to be the better smartphone (which it is haha).
The one thing I always ask people that ask me “iPhone or BlackBerry” is that they have to decide, do they want a toy or a smartphone that rocks tool. Andrew and I are in agreement about the iPhone being more of a toy than a device that can provide useful and multiple functionalities that we would use in day-to-day activities.
Don’t get me wrong, the BlackBerry can be just as much of a toy as the iPhone with its own variety of games and entertainment but what makes the BlackBerry better is that it is for both work AND play.
Despite pushing 1 million units on the Apple iPhone-hungry masses in just a weekend, the Apple iPhone 3G S isn’t going to single-handedly unseat the BlackBerry from atop the smartphone mountain.
And regardless of what the folks at Crowd Science found through their survey — which indicated BlackBerry users will ditch their CrackBerrys for iPhones in droves — the iPhone won’t replace Research In Motion’s BlackBerry, which has become synonymous with business mobility. They’re affectionately called CrackBerrys for a reason, right?
Let’s be clear: Apple’s iPhone and the new iPhone 3G S are killer smartphones. They are slick, they are cool and they pack a lot of punch. Plus, pulling out your iPhone in a crowded coffee shop or bar is pretty much a wink and a nod acknowledging that you are part of an elite group of insiders who “get it.”
But, to me, the iPhone is more about fashion than function. It’s a toy, not a tool. Yes, you can get e-mail and send messages, you can make and receive calls, you can snap photos and now record video all from your device. But you can do all of that with a BlackBerry, too. And the BlackBerry has more than a decade of smartphone innovation under its belt compared to the iPhone’s measly three generations.
Posted by Mauricio on Jun 11, 2009 at 10:46 AM | Comments
Al Sacco put together a great editorial for CrackBerry where he goes over his top 8 reasons why the Palm Pre’s “got nothin’ on BlackBerry.” Very good read .
Here are his 8 reasons:
8 ) Pre, First webOS Device, Could Be Flash in the Pan
7 ) Sprint Owns Pre Users Until AT LEAST 2010
6 ) Pre as an Enterprise Device? Not So Fast…
5 ) No Expandable Memory/Memory Card Support for Pre!!
4 ) The Pre’s Not Built to Last-But It Did Cut the Cheese
3 ) There’s Only One Pre… For Better or for Worse
2 ) The Palm Pre’s App Catalogue Is Weak Like Your Little Cousin
1 ) Pre’s Keyboard Is for Pixies and Lilliputians
The Pre is here; Palm recently released the much-anticipated Pre smartphone to the world-and the fate of the company very much depends on whether or not the device is a hit. Palm, former king of the PDA market, is attempting to pull itself back to the forefront of the smartphone game with the likes of RIM and Apple, and the Pre will no doubt be instrumental to its success…or lack thereof.
A while back, I penned a piece for CrackBerry called “Top 10 Reasons Why the iPhone Is NO BlackBerry,” in which I pointed out why Apple’s iPhone might be fine for your kid brother or all the Mac-heads at school or work, even your mom, but it doesn’t hold a candle to BlackBerry when the two are stacked up next to each other (I’ll be weighing in on the state of this ongoing debate soon now that the iPhone 3G S has been announced).
While the Pre is certainly exciting and I look forward to some quality thumbs-on time with it, I didn’t rush out to pick one up this week, nor will I be trading in my beloved ‘Berry for a Palm device anytime soon; the Palm Pre’s simply no BlackBerry.
Posted by Mauricio on May 8, 2009 at 7:00 AM | Comments
Here’s an article I thought I’d share with everyone. I couldn’t attend WES this year, but there were plenty of others who did and published articles about the event. Al Sacco was nice enough to share his top ten BlackBerry products and services from WES 2009.
Research In Motion (RIM) held its annual Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) this week in Orlando, Fla., and though there were countless BlackBerry products and services on display, ten of them really stood out from the crowd. Here are our favorite BlackBerry-related offerings from WES 2009.
Research In Motion’s (RIM) Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) is the largest BlackBerry event of the year, and as such, all the heavies in the space–from BlackBerry administrators to analysts and pundits, as well as power-users and unabashed CrackBerry addicts–come out to see the latest and greatest the BlackBerry world as to offer.
CIO.com was on the scene in Orlando this week for WES, and I spent hours in the trenches BlackBerry Solutions Showcase speaking with various vendors about their newest wares. I came across a plethora of noteworthy products and services, too, and though many more deserve mention, I’ve culled my 10 favorite offerings, listed in alphabetical order, for folks who couldn’t make the show.
Posted by Mauricio on Apr 25, 2009 at 1:55 PM | Comments
The guys from the Vodafone Rental Blog let me know about a great post where they go through 49 reasons why the BlackBerry Storm is the ideal smartphone for the international traveler.
One comment left by a person who read this post: “The Blackberry’s camera rocks! Great when you’re on your travels. So much better than other Smartphones, such the iPhone.”
Oh yeah . Here’s an intro to the article:
When you’re traveling this year, leave your laptop, digital camera, camcorder, alarm clock, satnav and phone at home. Take a touch-screen BlackBerry® Storm™ smartphone with you instead – You’ll wonder how you ever lived without it!
The BlackBerry Storm smartphone is packed with so many time saving features from its built-in GPS, helping you navigate around and find local tourist attractions, to its 3G / HSDPA (High Speed Download Packet Access – super fast data downloading to you and me) meaning you’ll be downloading emails and attachments as well as browsing the internet at lightening speeds!
Posted by Mauricio on Apr 16, 2009 at 12:23 PM | Comments
By Al Sacco:
On the list of reasons why I admire Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry operating system (OS), the sheer number of built-in, valuable keyboard shortcuts ranks near the top. These tricks help you navigate your devices and data, as well as the Web, as quickly and efficiently as possible.
In fact, your BlackBerry’s literally packing hundreds of “hidden” tips and tricks, many of which I’ve already uncovered on CIO.com, with the help of high-level mobile gurus–even RIM’s co-CEO.
Today, I’m offering up a list of keyboard shortcuts specific to the BlackBerry browser. I’m sharing tricks for rapid movement around a Web page; one-click access to a variety of browser options; a page-wide search function; a tip to instantly enable JavaScript for individual Web pages, and much more. Read on to see a side of your BlackBerry browser that you never knew existed.
(Note: Some of these tips and tricks may not work on devices without full QWERTY keyboards, like the Pearl 81xx and 82xx series, as well as the BlackBerry Storm. I tested them all using a BlackBerry Bold 9000 running OS v4.6.0.228 and a Curve 8900 on OS v5.0.0.90.)
Posted by Mauricio on Mar 24, 2009 at 11:52 AM | Comments
Some highlights from the press release:
BoxTone(R), the expert in mobile user management, and Wallace Wireless, the leader in providing BlackBerry smartphone applications for business continuity and business operations, today announced a partnership aimed at helping public sector, public safety and health care organizations harden and extend the capabilities of their BlackBerry platforms.
The partnership unites two best-in-class software vendors with a deep client base of U.S. and Canadian federal, state and provincial and local governmental agencies; the military; and large health care institutions.
“Mobile government, public safety and health care workers can’t afford BlackBerry service disruptions; at times lives are at stake,” said Alan Snyder, CEO, BoxTone.
BoxTone and Wallace Wireless are also both pleased to sponsor WES 2009, May 5-7 in Orlando, where the biggest wireless thinkers will gather to network, meet customers, form new business relationships and be the first to see the very latest in wireless technology. Make plans to stop by the BoxTone and Wallace Wireless booths. Click here to learn more about WES 2009.
Posted by Mauricio on Mar 18, 2009 at 9:13 AM | Comments
I found this article interesting. Apparently mistrials are happening more often because jurors are using smartphones and the web to connect with people on the outside, while sitting in on a trial.
By John Schwartz:
As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials Are Popping Up
Last week, a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida admitted to the judge that he had been doing research on the case on the Internet, directly violating the judge’s instructions and centuries of legal rules. But when the judge questioned the rest of the jury, he got an even bigger shock.
Eight other jurors had been doing the same thing. The federal judge, William J. Zloch, had no choice but to declare a mistrial, a waste of eight weeks of work by federal prosecutors and defense lawyers.
“We were stunned,” said a defense lawyer, Peter Raben, who was told by the jury that he had been on the verge of winning the case. “It’s the first time modern technology struck us in that fashion, and it hit us right over the head.”
It might be called a Google mistrial. The use of BlackBerrys and iPhones by jurors gathering and sending out information about cases is wreaking havoc on trials around the country, upending deliberations and infuriating judges.
Last week, a building products company asked an Arkansas court to overturn a $12.6 million judgment, claiming that a juror used Twitter to send updates during the civil trial.
Posted by Mauricio on Mar 3, 2009 at 3:02 PM | Comments
By David Needle:
BlackBerry users are the majority of 150,000 downloads of the speedy alternative browser in since its beta release earlier this year.
A few years ago, the idea of downloading a third-party browser to a mobile device was something only mostly tech savvy users would even consider. Nowadays, particularly with the popularity of Apple’s App Store for the iPhone, customizing your mobile device is far more common.
Bolt is a great example of this brave new software world. Bolt is a generic mobile browser that runs on a variety of mobile devices, but Bitstream, its developer, tweaked it a bit for BlackBerry users making use of specific key functions, like T for top and B for going to the bottom of the screen.
The growing popularity of third-party applications prompted RIM itself to develop an online storefront for applications that it’s slated to rollout this month, but Bitstream isn’t waiting. It released a private beta of Bolt for BlackBerry and other mobile devices in January and opened it up to a more public beta last month.
In that time, the company said its Bolt browser has been downloaded over 150,000 times. “The response has been completely overwhelming. It shows we’re meeting a real unmet need,” Bitstream CEO Anna Chagnon told InternetNews.com.
Posted by Mauricio on Feb 23, 2009 at 1:39 PM | Comments
By James Kendrick:
I like the iPhone 3G and have liked it since it was first released. It has changed the way we think about smartphones, no question, and it is a very fine one. I also like the BlackBerry Storm, an opinion that is more unusual. It is a BlackBerry at its core, which makes it a fine smartphone in its own right. I am in an unusual situation since I have both of these smartphones, and I am getting asked frequently to compare them. This is not something I usually do as I find that there is no one “better” device in cases like this, as one phone will excel in certain situations and not so much in others. I will thus lay out the things I like and dislike about both of these phones and you can draw your own conclusions as to what each might mean in your particular case.
I will start out by making it clear that I like both of these phones. They do what they do very well and they each take a different tack to do that. This is where they differ and why they excel in different areas and fall short in others.
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