The debate rages on as to which is a better device. The fake computer telephone or the fake telephone computer.
I personally fucks with Research In Motion’s BlackBerry. My cellphone service provider doesn’t offer iPhones anyhoo. As a matter of fact, my cellphone service provider, T-Mobile, refused to fix my BlackBerry device even though it was still under its first year warranty. The call center claims that the phone has been water damaged. That my friends, is a bullshit scam. The only moisture on my phone has been the perspiration from placing the phone on my face to talk into it. I should start a class action lawsuit against RIM and T-Mobile for the face cancer I will develop.
Anyhoo…
My BlackBerry screen is cracked diagonally yet I still post drops to this blog and even over at XXL. Try that shit with an iPhone. Its not possible since you have all this functionality embedded on the touch screen. Can the iPhone survive the real life mobile telecommunication device travails? I doubt it. But everyone wants the iPhone because it is sooooo sexy. Also because Apple Computers are markers of an affluent lifestyle. You somehow appear to be environmentally conscious even though their devices prA’li use more Coltan than the average. Your Apple Computers telephone is singlehandedly funding civil war in Africa.
At the end of the day there really isn’t any difference between the RIM BlackBerrys or the Apple iPhones. What matters is which device enables you to be your most productive. If you are concerned about which device makes the best looking accessory then you aren’t really into getting too much work done.
Its over for the iPhone. I know people who had a BB, copped an iPhone, and chucked it to go back to BB. I know people who wanted the iPhone for appearances but heavily rely on their BB at all times.
I won’t front. I had T-Mobile since the days of Voicestream. Til this day, the reps will ask you trick questions during trouble shooting to find any evidence that the malfunctions and damages are entirely your fault.
And if your BB needs fixin’ T-Mobile says they are not the manufacturers of the devices. If you end up having to request a replacement, make sure its a brand new one! I can always tell, its all in the detail. I send them bitches back with a made up story and send for a new one.
Oh yeah D… I had BB issues for like 2 weeks straight. It was fuckin up my business. My BB kept shutting down during calls then it graduated to it shutting down if I toggled back and forward to applications…just replace your battery for a new one and you’re good money.
Duces.
The iPhones touch-screen is pretty good but it will never be as easy to type as on a BB. I just prefer the touch and feel (II) of the BB keyboard.
Yet another reminder I need an upgrade to my sucka ass phone.
Blackberry 4 Life!
I have both… Neither of them helps to get me laid…
True story – the iPhone drops steaming dung on the BB. I need nothing more while roaming this planet. Covers 4 email accounts, full websurfing, music, movies, and communications. My BB is a cold industrial device with no personality, whose vibrate buzz is louder than any of the rings, and basically the modern day version of the Motorola 2-Way that non business people rock to make it seem like they got some sort of business going on.
Blackberry gets mollywhopped by the glory of the iPhone.
Plus where your average iPhone user enjoys its features when alone walking or in transit, your average Blackberry user are some of the most socially inept people in the world who’d rather interact with their handheld device while living breathing human conversation and interaction becomes secondary. They’ve already lost in the battle of the machines in the war of the Matrix. They look as foolish as people did in 2000 when all you saw at parties was people looking down at their Motorola Skyports and “beaming” each other.
40 says: “iPhone….Covers 4 email accounts, full websurfing, music, movies, and communications’
So does a BB.
Granted non-business people rocking a BB is very true but equally you have all the arrogant, elite, smug Apple fanboys licking Steve Jobs balls (yes homo) telling everyone how IPhone is sooooooo great and think that owning Apple products makes them urban, creative hipsters.
I’m writing this on a Mac…..oh…..
40,
I have to agree with your 2nd comment… That’s only because niggas now a days think they are business moguls and are too busy to talk to peons who aint chasing paper (if you want to call it that). Its corporate thuggin… An industry poster look that has leaked to the streets.
I have 6 email accounts, a shit load of applications, a nice amount of BlackBerry Messenger Contacts, JiveTalk’n harder than the average BB user, Opera Mini’n as I surf dp dot com, exclusive free ringtones, BB themes out the cooter, and a memory card to save my drunken nights and bastard monents as I paint the town red.
Blackberrys are corporate/business devices. iPhones…not so much. 40, I don’t know how your BB is lookin, but your iPhone comes ready made whereas a BB allows you to pimp your shit your way.
My bad for the titangraph, but you get what I’m saying…
I’m still undecided and rock my old Razr that I got for free with rebates. The new BB Bold is coming and so is the new and improved 3G iPhone both with great new features. There are a number of other great computer/PDA phones out there by HTC and other companies.
The crazy thing is that the iPhone really change the game where the focus is on the actual phone, not the carrier service. Paying $300-$400 – $1,000 for a phone is considered reasonable for many. I know times are rapidly changing but I would consider purchasing a feature-rich computer-phone for my child if I was a parent. I’m cheap like that.
While you can replace your car’s GPS with your phone but I would watch out for telephone companies’ liberal use of adding crazy fees to fatten their profits. You don’t pay a dime to email via your home computer or laptop, but pay PER text message?!? And if you don’t send BUT receive you still pay per text? And of course there’s a charge for 500 txt messages or unlimited. Would you pay extra just to send a regular email?
Does that sound crazy? And Ringtones are another matter.
Sorry for the rant.
Oh yeah, I’m not up on the iPhone updates, but after that shit first came out trying to catch gadget heads with their “4 email accts and yada yada” niggas still couldn’t send a text message to more than 1 person.
After all that touch screen hype… Basura Records !
Vee,
If you don’t send emails like that then you make sense. But if you’re on the go and you’re constantly in some correspondence with some meathead and don’t need to be bothered with overages and shit, unlimited is the way to go.
That text messaging is a bitch though…. 100% feel you on that aspect.
Bottom line, you’re going to get raped either way. As a consumer you need to figure out if a bat or a dildo is the way to go out. [II]
Mo…
I got a 8700BB for my corporate shit and the iPhone for personal and other hustles. I got my first BB back in ’04 when my Sidekick seemed way immature for my corp swagger and have watched the device progress into the American populace the same way the Motorola Bravo pager evolved from a professional/street medical device to every soccer mom getting their kid a pager in the late 80s-early 90’s. Same shit with the BB.
See as an IT Exec, I need to draw the line between work/personal with my technologies I my home/personal equipment is always Mac/Apple as it being the nice break from the PC/BB world I spend 50-60 hours a week in. Its like teaching bad ass kids all day and you just want to come home to your peaceful well raised infant.
With that said to ADB’s point – I do understand the hate of that smugness created by funboy hipsters who only use Macs and eat free-range chicken and think that makes them better. However I’m not defined my devices, and mofo’s like that actually amuse me since they need to be defined by that. These are also the same guys who just started buying Nike Dunks 2 years ago.
As far as styling them – I’ve pimped both of them that so they excel in the worlds that I use them in but still emote flyness when those lines accidentally blur… Plus you’re right the early software bundles for the iPhone were a tad janky but they’re getting it right.
And like I said before… When some broad wants to coo over my iPhone I just plainly look at her and say – “This doesn’t get me laid…”
Of course the music capabilities of the iPhone is a big plus and now they’ve end-of-lifed the 8GB iPhone (in the UK anyway), this presumably means a 32GB is one the way – which is lot of storage for a phone.
DP says:
“The call center claims that the phone has been water damaged. That my friends, is a bullshit scam.”
Major bullshit on that. Pop your battery out of your Crackberry and look in the upper left or right hand corner. There should be a little while square that should be all white. If any part is red then there has been water damage. If it is still white then you should be cool.
The battery has a water mark sticker on it too. Most likely a white sticker on the end with a solid red line through it. Solid red line is good – red x’s across the sticker not good.
fuck what you heard, i’m copping that new iPhone when it drops and shitting on T-mobile (this old raggedy ass Razr)
(and yeah, i’m typing this on a black MacBook running leopard and windows XP)
I had t-mobile for years, and I’ve never been a fan of apple… just hating really… but my iPhone is legit… I’ve been able to do anything I want… basically like walking around with a laptop in your pocket…
I’ve only had a cellphone for a total of 3 months in my entire life. One got stolen and the other became waterlogged during a rainstorm. Since I’m a Apple 4 Life fanboy ass nigga I suspect I’ll get an iPhone once I actually decide to get a “job” job.
The Mac goes rrrrrrrrring! © Peedi Crakk
One.
“At the end of the day there really isn’t any difference between the RIM BlackBerrys or the Apple iPhones.”
Wrong.
“What matters is which device enables you to be your most productive.”
Co-sign.
I have an iPhone and we use Blackberry’s here at work. If I were to spend money again, it would be for the iPhone again because of what it can do (once it’s hacked). I have a bunch of decent apps on mine but out of the box it’s kinda weak.
Black Berry 4 Life bitches! All’s I do is conduct bizness on mines, no time for faggy sufing, downloading songs, loading up personal pics. Still rocking the original that I copped from Emty Vee a few years back, no problemos.
Although:
^” My BB is a cold industrial device with no personality, whose vibrate buzz is louder than any of the rings”
Just like how I likes my women!!!
I can’t live without my Crackberry. Even better? The job pays for it. Ahhhh, life is good.
I’m sure BB vs iPhone wars are endless but check out HTC – Touch Diamond. http://www.htc.com/www/product.aspx?id=46278
And of course, Google is in the process of throwing their hat into the phone game. Google’s bank alone will make the industry take notice when their ready to unveil their product. Full interoperability with Google mail, maps, etc. their phone may surpass BB and iPhone in functionality.
D, the one thing you didn’t mention about the iPhone is the recent release of the SDK (Software Development Kit). Its only a matter of time before a developer uses the iPhone as a platform to launch the next hot game or application. I don’t know about BB development, but if you can add a stylus Pen to the iPhone . . . I’ll cop one because you would be able to draw and possibly edit amateur video on the iPhone.
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I’m sure there is a hack out there to circumvent text charges. I imagine if you’re paying for internet connection via your BB or iPhone, why not simply send an email as opposed to a txt message which is an extra charge.
CJ – Edit that for “sidepieces” because you know you can’t come home to that on the regulack!
when the new iPhones drop with Exchange support they’re gonna shit all over the blackberry…
plus the internet sucks on a blackberry (last i checked)…
you seen the new Blackberry Bold? Shit is on fire….
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/rims-blackberry-bold-gets-previewed/
^CJ – Edit that for “sidepieces” because you know you can’t come home to that on the regulack!
You’d be surprised.
Nah, just playin (lest wifey see what I been up to).
Comedy CJ. Comedy.
I can’t front I have a space in my heart for them also. I’m surrounded by them at work and I hope to be the iPhone in their BlackBerry lives…
just copped a bb today. im diggin’ the fandom.
I’m in a long term relationship with BlackBerry until something bigger and blacker comes along.
I’m young, dumb, and need apps on my device to pimp my hip while it still entertains me. That is until something bigger and blacker comes along…
No pause on my post…
I’m only writing about Blackberrys from now on
I have the Iphone, but I waited until they dropped the price (plus I got it for my birf’day!)! Honestly, I could have done without it. I really don’t like it. Touch screen key board isn’t finger friendly.
well my dude has an iphone screen completly crakcked liek the bay area ! it still works flawlessly he put clear tape over top of the screen to hold the broken glass in
i mean we should send pics to apple its unreal
just my 2 cents
The Dallas. All is relevant, but nothing more important than the comment you made about coltan. I have been talking about this mineral/ore for years and most are clueless. If the spirit moves you… educate the masses
i got me a att/htc tilt…after tweaks the phone is the truth