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That is a bold title, I know. When most people think of a phone right now they think iPhone. I have people walking into our stores asking for iPhones. They do not know what they do, they do not know how they would use them, but the know they want an iPhone. I can say the same thing for the Blackberry, just on a much smaller level, people ask for the Blueberry, or something along those lines, and do not really know what it does. They just know they want a Blackberry.

Well, there are die hard iPhone fans, and die hard Blackberry addicts. Both factions think their device is the best, although both also just dismiss all the good things the opposing device does. I think the iPhone is one of the coolest looking devices out there. It is very sleek looking and has a good “Apple” feel. It looks very modern and feel great in the hand. Blackberrys mostly are all a little different. You have the Storm, Curve, Bold, Pearl, World Series, and so on. I think the Curve is the most popular Blackberry and it looks nice, but not quite up to par with the iPhone.

The iPhone community is great, there are many innovative applications/games on there that I really like, some are JellyCar, Trace, Twitteriffic, and Spanish LE. There are hundreds more, and many of them are really cool. This is an area where the iPhone has pulled away from most makers. The applications developers have made for this really has made it a great device for most people. Both hardcore and casual users can appreciate many of the free and pay for applications. Blackberry has a ton of applications, but many of them are business driven. They are made to help improve operation costs for businesses, and Blackberrys (along with Palm and Windows phones) really help businesses run.

I use my phone a lot for e-mailing, texting, and talking. My good old 8830 aka “The Beast” was great, and my Blackberry Curve is just as good for that. A few things really make the Blackberry pull away from the iPhone in this category. For me the main thing is battery life. My 8830, 8330 Curve, and 9530 Storm have all had better battery life than the iPhone. The 3g iPhone is a little worse off, especially when you are using the WiFi. The other real major winner for me with Blackberry is the keyboard. The keyboards are great. I love my Curve and 8830, I have used the Pearl’s Suretype and it works well. Even though the Storm is touch screen I prefer it over the iPhone. It is much easier to not mess up on the Storm, and the keys are spaced a little further apart.

So do I hate the iPhone? The answer is no. I respect it, it is very cool, but I really need to have the best at e-mails and the best phone available, that is why I have a Blackberry. I have an iPod Touch because I do appreicate the applications, but until Apple steps up and improves a few things RIM is king of the hill. If you have any questions feel free to contact us.

It has been some time coming, but my wife has finally caught the Blackberry fever. She previously had the Helio Ocean (Which is a very cool phone in its own right). Over the last several months, I have had two different Blackberrys and she could not stand that my phones were cooler than hers. Enter Blackberry Storm. USA’s first touch screen Blackberry. We bought it, played with it, and here is what we thought.

The first thing you will notice on this phone is the styling. It is a very nice looking phone and looks very high end. It has a great looking 360×480 LCD screen. There are a few hard keys for Talk/Answer, Menu, Back, and End/Exit.

The Storm has 4.7 OS. I upgraded my phone to 4.7.0.75 OTA through the Wireless Upgrade in my phone’s options. The touch is pretty responsive, and the click is a good way to not push things accidentally too many times. Other than that, the only issue I have is the right of the screen highlighting when I push the left corner.

The phone has several applications you can download out of the box like Rhapsody and Twitter. And cooler things like Flickr, Facebook, and Myspace. Coupled with a great phone browser these options cater to a business person as well as a regular user who wants a really cool phone.

I hate to say this, but one of my favorite parts of this phone is the game WordMole. You find words hidden throughout the puzzle and touch a string of letters to make a word. Fun, addicting, and never requires a huge amount of time. I also use the phone as a media player. On my personal Curve, I put music, pictures, and movies on there. The Storm comes with an 8GB memory card so for some people that is plenty. I have put music on my wife’s phone and using Desktop Manager 4.6 (4.7 kept shutting down on me) it converted my AVI. files to Mp4.

So overall I really like the phone. My biggest complaint is the phone not having a trackball. The keyboard is pretty easy to type on (even if you have man hands). My wife loves the phone, she is getting used to it being all touchscreen. She has transitioned nicely from a full QWERTY keyboard to the touch keyboard. It has a new OS developers are not very familiar with, but I am sure in time we will be seeing really neat new things we can do with this phone.Overall for the price it is a great phone, and if you have Verizon one I would highly recommend. If you have any questions, or want to buy this phone let us know.