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There isn’t a day that passes where I don’t read an article about the iPhone and the BlackBerry going head to head. It’s like they’re pitted to fight to the death. The worst part, to me, is that so many people assume that just because the iPhone is hip and has a touchscreen, it will beat out the BlackBerry and its “bland” mechanical keyboard, and a screen that is only good for smudges. Well, Apple fanboys won’t like this one: BlackBerry increased their market share last quarter.

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You know what people really didn’t talk about much at WES? The BlackBerry Kickstart. Of course, RIM employees couldn’t talk about it, and something tells me that many of the attendees aren’t super-geeky about unannounced new devices. In fact, I didn’t even hear much buzz about the BlackBerry Thunder, which was leaked by BGR on Tuesday. Of course, since the BlackBerry Bold was here and on prominent display, it’s only logical that the buzz revolved around it. I did get a chance to speak about the Kickstart briefly with some folks, though, and my one question remained unanswered: How is this going to compare to the Pearl, apart from the flip?

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I’m a rampant Gmail user. Yeah, the kind of guy who has it open all day long, like some people would have their Outlook account. Of course, the added bonus is the Google Talk feature, but that’s for another day. Right now I’d like to talk about a few different ways which you can get your Gmail on your BlackBerry. This is a personal journey I took, and after actually reading a few short, short articles, I found that it shouldn’t have taken that long at all. So, before I bore you, let’s start at the beginning: My first experience syncing up Gmail on my BlackBerry.
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Two terms we see a lot in the world of BlackBerry geekdom are BES and BIS. For those of you who don’t know the difference, BIS is BlackBerry Internet Service and BES is BlackBerry Enterprise Server. BES is usually employed by businesses who want to keep all of their email, notes, calendars, tasks, and contacts synced between their handheld and work computer. BIS is the standard bearer for personal users. In order to sync email, etc. to a computer, BlackBerry desktop software is required. Yet the question remains: How can personal users benefit from using an Enterprise server?
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According to an independent survey, transferring and syncing data from your computer to your smartphone is fastest handled by the BlackBerry. This test pitted the BlackBerry 8120 (pretty much the 8130 in the U.S.) against the iPhone, the Sony Ericsson Walkman, and the Motorola Razr 2. Tests were conducted with file transfer software included with the phones and via direct file transfer. And in the end, the winner was the 8120.
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If there’s a survey, J.D. Power and Associates conducts it. They come in all shapes and sizes, but the one we’re concerned with today is the Business Wireless Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Survey for 2007. Yes, the BlackBerry won. The rankings were based on the following areas: ease of operation (22 percent), operating system (21 percent), physical design (20 percent), audio (14 percent), batter aspects (13 percent), and utility features (10 percent).
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Honestly, we don’t need a survey to tell us that the BlackBerry is the superior smart phone on the market. We’ve tried the Palm, we’ve tried the Q, and we’ve tried the N95. Yet nothing really touches the overall functionality of the BlackBerry. However, when a survey does come out that tells us what we already know, we like to pass it along. After all, everyone needs their opinions validated from time to time.
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Much hoopla has been made of the iPhone. It’s really getting to the point where the product cannot possibly meet expectations. Don’t misunderstand: it’s still going to be a stellar and very popular device. However, to live up to being the phone messiah is nearly an impossible task. Living up to the BlackBerry may be a challenge, too.

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