Sinanation

This match will never end unless a stronger opponent pops out. One punch after the other, the two gadgets will come back with greater powers and a bigger audience. As a user of both phones, who has finally given into BlackBerry, I wish I could choose one over the other. I can’t. I miss the iPhone more than ever, but at the same time I can’t let go of the BlackBerry. Maybe with this post I can find some peace in my dilemma. Here are my bests & worsts for each phone:

iPhone:

• Great packaging (like all the other Apple products). Once you open the box you feel like you have just become an owner of something really precious and exclusive.
• The best technological partner to a Mac owner. From pictures, upgrades to music, everything is so easily taken care of on iTunes.
• Amazing downloads from unit converters to weather. I never realized how easy things were before I switched to BB.
• Great calendar and notification system.

• Writing text messages is a disaster. You fingers are never too thin to avoid pressing two letters at the same time and on top of that the phone keeps correcting your foreign language with English. For example: your Turkish “ama”s (“but” in English) annoyingly change into “AMA” for the American Medical Association.
• Being up-to-date with e-mails is though as you are required to manually update your inbox during each visit.
• The speaker is not loud enough to properly hear the person on the other side (especially in a noisy city like New York).

BlackBerry:

• BB Messenger (given that most of your network uses a BB). I guess it needs no introduction or pampering.
• Amazing with e-mails. You are completely in touch and up-to-date with your network globally from business associates to friends.
• Loud enough speaker to hear even if you are out on a loud street.
• Fast mapping and Internet search with Google.
• Easy and fast typing (in any language).

• Too many clicks to get from one place to another. This is really hard for a long time iPhone user.
• Not many good downloads to personalize the phone to your needs.
• Bad camera.
• Calculator is not user-friendly at all.
• I am still intimated to plug the BB to my Mac.

My conclusion? The winner in this case can not definitely be determined by the fighters, but the audience. Do you prefer to have an artistic gadget that gives you so much room to personalize or a generic device that will ultimately connect you with the world faster and cheaper than you can ever imagine?

I hope you can make a better judgment than I did.