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The iPhone rocks. There's three reasons I don't want one though
1. Price
2. Apple
3. iTunes

But they are very good phones.
As for BB: The more expensive BB's (Bolds) are usually the better ones.
I've got a 9700 bold myself and it works perfectly. It's incredibly fast (faster than any other smartphone. It should be as it's got quite some limitations ), the battery life is three full days.
I have to agree with you on the apps, there's not too many really good ones. Not legally free, at least. But I like my blackberry. Sound quality is decent, the camera is remarkably good, the speed of the thing is absolutely astonishing.
Downsides are some limitations to the OS. For instance; I can't set different types of notifications for all my e-mail accounts. I've got my personal account I would like to check all the time, but I've also got a forumaccount for my own forum that I only want to check every once in a while, manually. Can't be done. I also dislike the fact that there's no calender information on the homescreen. You have to open a window to see what appointments you have coming up, not practical. Another problem is that it can't handle big web pages. They're awful on phones, I know, but I don't mind waiting. The phone just goes 'this web page is too big, can't be opened'. ****. Doesn't happen too often, but it is still annoying.
Seems pretty serious, but most of the time the things I mention aren't that bad.
What I really dislike is the fact that the blinking light that tells you you've got an e-mail or sms or whatever, just keeps blinking untill you open the message. I wish there was a button to turn it off. Sometimes I want to read it later and I don't want that light to be blinking all the time. That's really the most annoying thing about the blackberry. I know you can turn the light off, but I like the idea of having a light that tells me that something 'has just happened'.

Anyway, as a phone, a camera and an internet device (facebook integration is really epic, as is MSN, Whatsapp, BBM) it's perfect.
As an alternative to a netbook, like thos new day iPhones and Android phones are, it isn't. Too limited.

But then, my BB was 15 bucks... I mean, come on .

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