Pick me a BlackBerry
I am a fan of Apple. There’s no doubt about that, previous postings prove that, but I’m not a great fan of the iPhone and here’s why.
The iPhone is a nice bit I kit, I don’t doubt that for a moment, but it only seems to be aimed at one market…the ‘I’m a hip young thing who gets my hair done at Toni and Guy, always wears black and think trendy is sitting in Starbucks all day while slagging them off for being corporate’ types
In other words those who like the latest gadets and who will dump them when the next big thing comes along.
Now I did toy with the idea of getting a iPhone, but a few things stopped me, firstly afore mentioned image (and my lack of it), secondly, I don’t want to be tied just to one network as the iPhone is with o2, thirdly, my big fat fingers on the touch screen and the fact that I never hit the right key first time and finally, it’s just too big.
So when I decided to go for a BlackBerry 8120 in a rather nice shade of red. And I have to say I am more than happy with it.
I have owned a BlackBerry before and was over the moon with it, but due to a few things when it came to getting my next phone I had to go back to something ‘normal’ so on Sunday on setting up my new berry, it felt like coming home in manner of speaking.
So what about the image of those who own BlackBerry’s. Well if your in the UK, it’s still very much the domain of the businessman or top flight journalist, it is without shame a business machine.
But if you go to the home of the BlackBerry, Canada, you will see a different side to the device, one which is very slowly creeping into the UK (and about time too) and that is of a device for both business and social networking.
At the moment Rogers, a Canadian telecommunications company, are making a big thing of the BlackBerry’s accessibility to sites like MySpace and Facebook, everywhere you go on the Subways in Toronto there are adverts showing the BlackBerry and it’s social networking facilities.
And it looks as though it has been so successful that almost every teenager and adult across all social backgrounds and classes in Toronto (and across the rest of Canada, I’m sure) has a BlackBerry in their hand. Any other phone is a novelty to see.
So is the iPhone better? I honestly think not. To be honest if you turn up to a business meeting with a iPhone I don’t think you’ll be taken that seriously. But with a BlackBerry in your pocket, you’ll be taken seriously as a business person because you’ll be someone seen as always being contactable in any form and increasingly you’ll be seen as someone who takes their social networking seriously by having a good laugh with it.
As for me, that’s all very useful, but the clincher for me is it’s easy of use and the fact I can hit the right key first time, every time!
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