iPhone VS Blackberry

iPhone VS Blackberry

We are living in the age of very advance technology and this technology has influenced every field of our life either it is related to our homes or our personal life we have just shifted to a very technology oriented life. Among those technologies affecting our life and bringing innovations let’s talk about mobile phones. Now day’s smart phones have taken place of earlier handsets and they are bringing facilitation in every field of our life by their vast network. The two of the biggest competitors in the war of smart phones are the blackberry and Apple iPhone. Both are top class in their functionality and here I’ll discuss the differences among both as they are focusing on same line of thought. This article is not meant to promote one device over the other the main aim is just to see the difference in their approaches. Let’s start by discussing the functionality (which they both carry) one by one.

Physical attributes

Both of the smart phones are too dashing in their physical appearance. iPhone being the first ever sleek and stylish smart phone with an extra ordinary touch screen is capturing every one’s eye and on the other hand the blackberry is getting famous because of its dashing black body and full keyboard support. One thing about the iPhone’s screen is that it is very durable for crashes as after many crashes on the ground it only gets little scratches but the blackberry’s body gets scratched even when twisted on the table which is a fun for many people.

Email

Both the iPhone and blackberry are strong carriers of email facility and there is a slight difference in the performance. On the iphone we can say that the email facility is just second to none and this might be because of the new and fast web on the iphone. On the other hand sending and receiving emails is also not so difficult to manage on the blackberry the quality or we can say speed might be bit less than iPhone. Using a physical keyboard for typing messages is a plus point for blackberry as most of the people feels ease in typing on physical keyboard rather than on the touch screen. The blackberry’s capacity for the text messages and emails is also more than the iPhone’s.

Calendar

While scheduling the meetings or any other appointment on your phone you may find the iPhone is quite manual in its approach to the calendar and then adjusting/entering new appointments also takes some further clicks but the blackberry creates a default setting for meeting’s remainder so that every time a person won’t have to go to the calendar and enter schedule and repeat the manual process again.

Contacts

Like the above functionality iPhone is also pretty manual in calling someone. On iphone dialing someone’s name is rather tedious if they are not added in the favorites but the blackberry instantly starts typing the names and then searches the number by itself.

Business Connectivity

The blackberry lets you access the corporate emails, contacts and calendars whether your business uses Microsoft Exchange, IBM’s Lotus Notes, or Novell GroupWise, it will assist you by its extra cost blackberry enterprise server. And from the business point of view this is a best enterprise capable mobile platform.

The iPhone uses exchange ActiveSync for emails, contacts and calendars but sometimes it blocks user’s business applications like they can’t support exchange if encryption is set as an ActiveSync policy requirement.

Applications

The iPhone supports so many third party web applications that there is no match in the world for this much support. And apple is also enhancing its web applications by some new and exciting features. The blackberry has weakest selection of such applications and many of them are hard to use thus it has poor usability factor for the third part applications. iPhone also support unlimited formats for the documents and files but blackberry is a bit restrictive in this regard.

From the above analysis it can be said that none of them is better than the other as some of the facilities are superb in one set which other is lacking and then comes some facilities which are present in the second one but little lower at the first. Both are best competitors in the Smartphone industry and we can just say that security wise blackberry is better due to its encryption capable facility and thus if someone wants more security then he should buy blackberry but for the person who has little business work and more web work he should buy iPhone.

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