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Originally Posted by johnny football hero
The touchscreen BlackBerry Storm is due for release soon. Its been touted as the "iPhone Killer". So does it have the goods? I keep hearing mention of a video camera and MMS available on the Storm. Yes, those are two HUGE issues that I have with the iPhone. But what about the rest? How is the browser? It does lack Wi-Fi. How stable is the phone? I keep reading about memory leaks when it comes to BlackBerry phones. What the hell is a memory leak anyway?
Is this a phone that is going to be a serious competitor to the iPhone? Will AT&T eventually get a touchscreen BlackBerry? Is it the iPhone Killer?
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A memory leak is when a program grabs a spot of memory when it is ran but does not release it when it is closed. The next time the program is ran it grabs another spot of memory. The program may sometimes releas the memory when closed but usually most the time it will not. The area of memory becomes unusable and other programs can not access it even though it isnt being used for anything. After a while this builds and you find yourself running out of memory.
In the past memory users have went nutso swearing they had a momory leak only to find out it was something normal such as internet browser building cache. We use to have big problems with Windows CE devices and memory leaks years ago.
Since the new BB device has a 3.25 inch display it will probably take away a few iphone customers. Blackberries are very popular, nice devices. Many of the specs are better than the ones on the iphone but blackberries have many drwabacks also. I got rid of my Curve because I got sick of the tiny amount of internal memory combined with the inability to store programs, databases and documents on the card. I also got tired of the lack of good programs for the blackberry. Lemme see if I can sum up some pros and cons.
Blackberry pros:
1) Solid stable OS.
2) Excellent email service.
3) Powerful multitasking ability, (programs can run in and run behind other programs such as spell check, copy and paste, GPS trackers)
4) Easy to use interface.
Cons of blackberry:
1) No great taskmanager.
2) Small internal memory and inability to fully use external memory.
3) Lack of variety of 3rd party software.
The ways in which Blackberry beats the iphone:
1) Blackberry does true multitasking right out of the box with no stability issues.
2) Blackberry does copy and paste, video capture, spellcheck, (everything a PDA should do effortlessly, out of the box with no stability issues.
3) Now a days blackberry is fully compatible with Microsoft office.
Ways in which iphone beats the blackberry.
1) Iphone has the slickest GUI around.
2) Iphone is media-centric. (itunes is AWESOME!)
These 2 devices are not really shooting for the same market although of course there is a lot of overlap. I have used Palm for years, windows PPC for years, blackberry for a year and now the iphone and no device I have ever used has ever killed another device
What has made me move from one device to another or 1 OS to another has been me figuring out exactly what kind of user I am. The iphone is media-centric and the BB is buisness-centric. I will never use BB again because of their "double stoupid issue"-cant put anything but media on the card combiled with a small internal memory!
Anyways here is the REAL iphone killer!!!!!
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