this is what is good about competition. with intense competition, players like apple, nokia, samsung, htc have come up with great solution in a variety of form factors. no single phone will ever fit everyone's needs. thats why we need many companies bringing out variations to occupy niches.
blackberry's capabilities of push is not magical. I have tested the response time with google sync, nuevasync, seven, blackberry, roadsync - on different handsets. the result varies, although blackberry is good, its almost on par with most other solutions. where blackberry scores is in having deep experience for many years. they are ahead in the curve, which is fast bridged by competition. right now, blackberry users are holding their positions, in the not too distant future, they will lose new customers. existing ones will stick on, their rate of growth has decelerated. android/ ios-apple/ win7 will be the new challengers.
Re: blackberry used to be the best, no longer
by wizardo id on Aug 16, 2010 02:26 PM
one thing in favour of BB is setting up emails - its a cinch, only other people who have got it easily are apple. win7 hopefully will be good. symbian is too darn difficult to configure multiple services. if you use nokia's own ovi environment - its not very difficult, but if you try to include yahoo, gmail, live etc - then you are out of luck and you need a professional solution from guys like roadsync.
Re: Re: blackberry used to be the best, no longer
by C S on Aug 16, 2010 06:58 PM
I think newly lauched Nokia Messaging is superb. You can get Nokia E71/E72 @13-17k, which has almost all the features like 3G HSPA, GPS with free maps, FM & so on. You compare this features with BB the phone will almost cost u 24K to best of my knowledge. Even for BB you have to subscribe the service from your service prodiver (charge can go upto 600 per month) swhile in Nokia is almost pay as you use.
So for me it is quiest sensible to go for Nokia, if it was a year or two back i would have recommended BB.
Re: Re: Re: blackberry used to be the best, no longer
by Neerav P on Aug 26, 2010 04:57 PM
Rightly said!
I have a Nokia E63 (Rs.8990.00). That's as basic as a reliable business phone could get and yet, I am accessing 3 different email accounts on it using Nokia Messaging. Trust me, setting up the accounts was shockingly easy! I just had to punch in the email IDs and the passwords. That's all! Everything else was automatic!!
