iPhone or BB Bold?

[GasX]

I am switching to AT&T and have the opportunity to get a subsidized phone. Should I get an iPhone or wait for the new blackberry?

I currently use a curve and am happy with it and will be using the phone for work and personal use.

Thoughts?

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Bold.

MMS messaging (or lack of it) is the #1 reason for me. I want my gf to be able to send me naughty pics of her on my phone.

 

[Burrens78]

So you can't do picture messaging on the iphone?

 

[Wonderful Pork]

Originally posted by: Burrens78
So you can't do picture messaging on the iphone?

no, you cannot do MMS on the iPhone. Right now you get a SMS that says somebody sent you an MMS and a link to www.viewmymessage.com with login info. Ironically, I haven't been able to login to viewmymessage.com from my iPhone, so you need to look at it through a computer.

Also, I'd never received an MMS prior to getting my iPhone (last year).

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Bold.

MMS messaging (or lack of it) is the #1 reason for me. I want my gf to be able to send me naughty pics of her on my phone.

I've never received an MMS before in my life. The closest has been sprint picture mail, which uses an external website.

 

[GasX]

With the iPhone @ $199 and the BBarry Pearl at $249 before $50 mail in rebate, I think I will get the iPhone. When the Bold arrives, it will probably be around $300 and that is just too pricey.

MMS does nothing for me.

 

[Phynaz]

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Bold.

MMS messaging (or lack of it) is the #1 reason for me. I want my gf to be able to send me naughty pics of her on my phone.

What about an email attachment?

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: Phynaz

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Bold.

MMS messaging (or lack of it) is the #1 reason for me. I want my gf to be able to send me naughty pics of her on my phone.

What about an email attachment?

You can do it as an email attachment, but for me I would rather have a physical keyboard over a virtual. The iPhone has a great interface, but the technology is where it is lacking (other then the keyboard but that is personal preference).

Oh and the iPhone is more expensive in the end b/c of the service contract. A BB you can do for cheaper.

 

[pm]

Oh and the iPhone is more expensive in the end b/c of the service contract. A BB you can do for cheaper.

Do we know what the price for the Bold will be at T-Mobile and AT&T? And don't the Blackberries usually require a special plan too?

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: pm

Oh and the iPhone is more expensive in the end b/c of the service contract. A BB you can do for cheaper.

Do we know what the price for the Bold will be at T-Mobile and AT&T? And don't the Blackberries usually require a special plan too?

It isn't really a "special" plan, at least on T-Mobile, it's the same price/features as the data plan. They just call it 'blackberry data'.

 

[GasX]

I am hoping a bottle of scotch will fix my IT departments lack of support for iPhone email. If that fails, I am stuck with blackberry

 

[Muadib]

The basic blackberry plan is $30, just like the iPhone.
What do you use for email?

 

[jdini76]

Well I just got my iPhone, and I have to say that even though there is no mms the other features outway this minor lack. Also, Apple will eventual add mms especialy if people constantly remind them it doesn't have it. The graphics are awesome, and the fact that when you browse to a website it is the actual website not the "mobile website" is clutch for me. Of course this is my opinion, others may need mms to survive in a mobile world.

 

[pm]

For what it's worth, there used to be a really nice MMS app for the iPhone - Swirly MMS was available on the (hacked iPhone) Installer:
http://www.swirlyspace.com/iph...s/mms/screenshots.html

They haven't migrated the code to iPhone firmware 2.0 yet, but are trying to add it to the AppStore instead... which is going slowly according to the blog.

I'm not sure why MMS isn't included on the iPhone - it's one of those things that makes no sesne to me at all - but it is just a software problem... and one which the someone is likely to fix one of these days if Apple doesn't.

 

[ynotravid]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
With the iPhone @ $199 and the BBarry Pearl at $249 before $50 mail in rebate, I think I will get the iPhone. When the Bold arrives, it will probably be around $300 and that is just too pricey.
MMS does nothing for me.

The extra cost of the special plan they make you get for the iPhone is substantial. $89.99 for minimal plan + $25/mo data + $15/mo texting (1500). The extra money on the plan adds up to $300 pretty quickly.

I'm mad because I just bought an Instinct so I wouldn't have to sign up for a long contract, and come to find out, Sprint won't activate the phone unless I go with one of their iPhone type plans. Unbelievable.

My new plan: Keep working on att to get a good plan like I have with Sprint and get something like a Nokia N96.

Don't know if that'll happen but, worth a try.

 

[pm]

The extra cost of the special plan they make you get for the iPhone is substantial. $89.99 for minimal plan + $25/mo data + $15/mo texting (1500). The extra money on the plan adds up to $300 pretty quickly.

The minimal plan is $39.99 + $30 data => $69.99.

http://www.wireless.att.com/ce...ecials/iphone-info.jsp

 

[DivideBYZero]

I have the Bold, but I kinda have to. The ability to edit office documents on the go is a nice update in OS4.6. Dunno if you can do that on the iP?

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: ynotravid

Originally posted by: Mwilding
With the iPhone @ $199 and the BBarry Pearl at $249 before $50 mail in rebate, I think I will get the iPhone. When the Bold arrives, it will probably be around $300 and that is just too pricey.
MMS does nothing for me.

The extra cost of the special plan they make you get for the iPhone is substantial. $89.99 for minimal plan + $25/mo data + $15/mo texting (1500). The extra money on the plan adds up to $300 pretty quickly.

Huh? AT&T's blackberry data plan is the same price as the iPhone data plan.

Blackberry Data

iPhone Plans

 

[aphex]

Interesting.

http://gizmodo.com/5039611/bla...-3g-problems-as-iphone

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: aphex
Interesting.

http://gizmodo.com/5039611/bla...-3g-problems-as-iphone

Well I have one and it's solid. This story is probably about as credible as the HSBC FUD.

 

[zylander]

I was trying to make the same decision. From what I have seen of the BB Bold I was really impressed and really wanted it. In the end I just ended up getting an iphone, I just couldnt wait for the BB Bold. Plus the iphone is more suited for me, I needed something for media oriented.

You can send pictures to other cell phones using the iphone though. Every cell phone carrier has an address you can use to send an email directly to someones cell phone. For example, I think the AT&T code is;

xxx.xxx.xxxx@mobile.att.com I think, where "x" is the phone number.

 

[Woofmeister]

Neither. Wait until September then switch to Verizon instead and get a Blackberry Thunder .

 

[pm]

Originally posted by: Woofmeister
Neither. Wait until September then switch to Verizon instead and get a Blackberry Thunder .

According to the most recent rumors, it's been pushed back to October, and renamed the "Storm 9530".

Here's the box:
http://www.phonemag.com/blackb...nt-carriers-084454.php

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: pm

Originally posted by: Woofmeister
Neither. Wait until September then switch to Verizon instead and get a Blackberry Thunder .

According to the most recent rumors, it's been pushed back to October, and renamed the "Storm 9530".

Here's the box:
http://www.phonemag.com/blackb...nt-carriers-084454.php

Some of that is accurate.