iPhone 3GS or Blackberry 9700?

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

um.. use blackberry maps. doesnt cost anything and works good.

Didn't work for me initially. When I did get it going, I didn't like it as much as google maps. But, it's completely irrelevant anyhow. They should not be selling me things that are deliberately broken so that you're forced to use something else.

.. For kicks, I just tried it again. Yup, still hate it. It's completely unable to locate any satellites for one unless I pull the battery out and put it back in. ALT, SYM, DEL does not reboot my phone. I wish there was a simpler way to reboot the phone other than remove the battery, but that's the only thing. Also without a word of a lie, it takes 5 to 10 minutes to reboot my phone. It's ridiculous.

If all I wanted out of my phone was a phone, then maybe the BB does just fine. Except that, no, actually, I take it back, it still sucks even as a phone. For example if I want to dial a phone number I start dialing the number. It assumes first I mean someone in my contact list so starts throwing out suggestions. It gets so busy looking up contacts that it drops the numbers I dial and I get an incomplete sequence, have to delete it all and start over.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Didn't work for me initially. When I did get it going, I didn't like it as much as google maps. But, it's completely irrelevant anyhow. They should not be selling me things that are deliberately broken so that you're forced to use something else.

.. For kicks, I just tried it again. Yup, still hate it. It's completely unable to locate any satellites for one unless I pull the battery out and put it back in. ALT, SYM, DEL does not reboot my phone. I wish there was a simpler way to reboot the phone other than remove the battery, but that's the only thing. Also without a word of a lie, it takes 5 to 10 minutes to reboot my phone. It's ridiculous.

If all I wanted out of my phone was a phone, then maybe the BB does just fine. Except that, no, actually, I take it back, it still sucks even as a phone. For example if I want to dial a phone number I start dialing the number. It assumes first I mean someone in my contact list so starts throwing out suggestions. It gets so busy looking up contacts that it drops the numbers I dial and I get an incomplete sequence, have to delete it all and start over.

ok a couple things.. take your phone in and ask for a new one, it sounds like it is broke. I can lock on 12 satalites in the house. as for the dialing I think you can turn that off but not sure.. I always concidered the pearl a womans phone seriously though call telus tell them you are having constant problems and you want to exchange it for a different phone. be nice but firm and persistant. when they say there is nothing they can do ask to speak to a supervisor and let them know you'll go to the BBB and other things. they usaly cave in. you have to realy look at the different BBerrys, its a little harder than the iphone as they make different ones for different people and uses where as the ipod there is only 1 so no options.

I have been with both telus and rodgers and they both have there faults and there good points and when you boil it right down they are about the same.. I like telus' coverage a bit better thats why I am with them.

I am actualy going to call them up and complain as I was told when I got my storm they wouldn't have a wi-fi enabled blackberry for at least 3 years.. low and behold 1 year later the storm two comes out with wi-fi. If I would have been told that I would have kept my basic cell for a year and then got the storm 2.

Steve

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

It is called "quick pull" but you have to see if it is compatable with your phone.

I'll look for it - thanks for the tip.

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

I always concidered the pearl a womans phone

I have been with both telus and rodgers and they both have there faults and there good points and when you boil it right down they are about the same.. I like telus' coverage a bit better thats why I am with them.

That was my initial reasoning too but two things that make me look over at the grass on the other side of the fence - 1) I can get a deal through work on Rogers, and 2) some of the places I like to go in summer don't have cell coverage regardless of carrier, so it doesn't make a huge difference. At any rate I am locked in for 3 years from last summer so can't really do much unless Rogers pays the penalty (which I doubt they would, but truth be told I'm too apathetic to look into it further).

I am actualy going to call them up and complain as I was told when I got my storm they wouldn't have a wi-fi enabled blackberry for at least 3 years.. low and behold 1 year later the storm two comes out with wi-fi. If I would have been told that I would have kept my basic cell for a year and then got the storm 2.

Yeah that sucks. Not having wifi does make a difference, I wish I could leech off available wifi. The internet cell coverage seems sluggish compared to other internet feeds, but at least it's workable. I've been tempted to go the other direction though and leech my work laptop onto my cell's internet because I'm sure my company's IT department thinks canreef.com is some kind of porn domain.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

. I wish there was a simpler way to reboot the phone other than remove the battery, but that's the only thing. Also without a word of a lie, it takes 5 to 10 minutes to reboot my phone. It's ridiculous.

there is. there is a app you can get for free that does a quick boot. I use it when I need to do a boot. about 2 min from start to finnish. It is called "quick pull" but you have to see if it is compatable with your phone.

Steve