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BlackBerry does email better than any other platform. It’s why many people buy the device and then stick with it. They’re not the only ones using a push email platform, but they do it the best. Unfortunately, this superiority does not extend to other areas of RIM’s software. The company is constantly criticized for having software inferior to its competitors, and there is no application that draws more ire than the default BlackBerry browser. There are a few decent alternative, though, that should work for users while we wait for RIM’s WebKit browser.
Ronen at BerryReview makes a good point when he links to a BlackBerry comparison video: You can’t go into a store and compare various BlackBerry models side by side. Well, that is, unless it’s the BlackBerry Store. Go to a T-Mobile retail outlet and you’ll have the Curve 8900, Curve 8520, and then some older Pearls and Curves. Go to AT&T and you’ll see the Bold, Curve 8900, and some other models. Verizon’s (and Sprint) the only place for the Tour, so you can’t compare it side by side with a Bold. That’s why I’m also linking to this video. It’s a good look at the various BlackBerry models out there right now, and it can be a good starting point when making a decision about your next BlackBerry purchase.
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A while back, we wrote up a quick history of the BlackBerry. In it we chronicled our favorite device from its infancy as a pager-like unit to the full-blown data and multimedia powerhouse it has become today. To celebrate their new regional headquarters in Sydney, Australia, RIM has set up a visual history using something unavailable to us when we wrote our history: the actual devices. PC World has the whole visual story, After the jump, some pics of the display.
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Earlier this year, the late Russell Shaw made his ten mobile predictions for 2008. One in particular struck me back then: “Mobile search will still suck.” He mentions that Google had it wrong, as many non-mobile sites would come up in a search. Seeing as we’re entering the waning days of 2008, it sounds like a good time to put Shaw’s prediction to the test. Does mobile search still suck? To find out, we’ll check out the four biggest search engines: Google, Yahoo!, Ask, and MSN. We’ll pit them against one another, no holds barred, to gauge how well they handle searches from a BlackBerry device. May the best engine win.
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Normally we reserve newsier items for BlackBerry News From The Wire. However, today I really want to share this. It’s a list, courtesy of RCR Wireless News, of the most popular handsets from the month of October. There have been some not-so-nice things said about the BlackBerry lately, from a study saying that the iPhone is more reliable to The New York Times’ not so great review of the Storm. Well, how about this one: The Curve was the most popular handset in October.
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Last month saw the official U.S. release of the two most hyped BlackBerry devices of 2008: the BlackBerry Bold and the BlackBerry Storm. These hit AT&T and Verizon, respectively, which happen to be the largest and second largest cell phone providers in America, also respectively. While many people will choose their provider based on the handset, others want to factor in the network before making a decision. Let’s take a look at the top U.S. providers to see what kind of service they offer.
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With the announcement (finally) of the release date and pricing for the BlackBerry Storm, you just knew there would be a ton of articles out there talking about how the Storm is a BlackBerry Killer — and from the Apple fanboys, how it won’t stack up. We get a few of them today. One in particular has been linked everywhere, but there are still other insightful ideas as to why the Storm will triumph over the iPhone. We’ll share them after the jump.
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When I first read BGR’s iPhone 3G vs. BlackBerry Bold review I thought, “cop out!” The conclusion was that it comes down to personal preference. But then I slogged through the daily news, and found all sorts of tidbits on the two devices. Barron’s cut RIM from “Hold” to “Underperform.” Then we have RIM saying that activations and shipments are 20 to 30 percent ahead of schedule for the past two months. So which is it? This is where it comes back to BGR. “True BlackBerry fans will want the Bold,” they say. And that’s true. Just the same, true Apple fanboys will want the iPhone. I wish we could leave it at that, but I know this discussion will continue well throughout the rest of the year.
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Earlier this week, Yardena Arar of PC World ran some tests on the battery life of the iPhone 3G against its 3G AT&T counterparts. While the iPhone did come out ahead, some people thought the report was incomplete without testing some 3G, meaning EVDO, BlackBerry models. So Arar ran some more tests, and found that EVDO BlackBerry devices have a better battery life than the iPhone 3G. Arar suggests that this is because on CDMA networks, voice and data use separate radio frequencies, which helps the battery life. Whereas on AT&T’s 3G network, voice and data are on the same bands. So we might have to reserve judgment until the Bold is released. Regardless, it seems that as far as current 3G wars are going, BlackBerry has the battery life advantage.
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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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