iPhone 3GS or Blackberry 9700?

[JDigital]

Wait till June for the iphone 4G

[globaldesigns]

Well, I like my blackberry bold. Has never been hacked like the IPhone and has never caused me issues

If you want apps, then get the IPhone, if you want business quality then blackberry. Just my opinion, but I think I will be outvoted here.

[pterfloth]

I have both. I am forced to use the BB for work email because work refuses to support the iPhone but use the iPhone for everything else including all my personal email. Quite of us at work have both and we all feel the same way.

I hate the BB. The screen is tiny. Cut, paste zoom and the infernal trackball suck. It is so stupid it isn't even capable of automatically adjusting the time when I travel between time zones. If you want to do any browsing, forget the BB.

If you don't absolutely have to accept the BB, I very highly recommend the iPhone.

Written on my iPhone.

[Chaloupa]

I love my iPhone and chose it over having a BB....just always works. And I get all my email accounts on my phone, browse A ton on the net and the cost isn't horrific as I've heard BB is...just my 2 cents!

[PoonTang]

.... and the iPhone is way nicer to monitor your tank with.

[wolf_bluejay]

The Iphone connects to microsoft exchange exchange better than the BB does. BB was a pain to setup and every so often requires that you pull the battery to get it to re-sync up again. The Iphone on the other hand was about 45 seconds to setup and has worked flawlessly.

When it comes to usability think of this -- work pays for my BB and the plan, I pay for my own Iphone and service. I recently gave up working with the BB, and I AM an IT guy, and just give out my personal cell number to those that need it, and stopped carrying the BB with me.

So, I pay out of my own pocket to use the Iphone, rather than using my free BB, does that answer the question good enough

BTW -- stay far, far away from them touch screen BB, they are beyond useless. It ends up with about a 1 second delay between when you touch, and when something (like typing a single character) actually happens.

Don't even get me started on trying to do something like use SSH on a BB.
That, and the IPhone has "air video" which was the killer app for me -- I can stream my videos stored on my home server straight to the phone over wifi or 3G. (No, not the creator of the software and don't get paid in any way).

[kien]

hmm, so the overwhelming majority seem to be suggesting the iPhone, even among those who have and use both phones. That's interesting :-) How long is it going to take before the BB is no longer the business devices of choice I wonder :-) It sounds to me like the iPhone is already the business device of choice if people actually had that choice [at work]

I've never used a blackberry but my wife does and she is the same way, HATES it and much prefers her iPhone but she is forced to use it [the blackberry] for work. You do have to make sure that your work policies support the iPhone if you want to use it for such. I've know quite a few friends who got iPhones only to be disappointed that they ended up having to lug around two phones because their work won't support the iPhone.

As for connecting to an exchange server, the iPhone does this just fine, with one caveat, you can only have ONE exchange server configured on your iPhone. It is possible they may change this in the future but as it stands, you can only have one. This means if your personal email account and your work email account are both on exchange servers, you can only have one of them configured with the 'exchange server' option on the iphone, allowing push email. However, if you don't need push email and one of your email accounts can be accessed by fetching email in another way like POP or IMAP then you can configure a limitless number of those. Therefore you could in theory have your work email pushing you emails from its exchange server while your iphone periodically fetches email from your personal email account. Or vice versa :-)

[KennyKen]

I use both.
Blackberry for work and email related things
iPhone is for killing time.