iPhone KILLER????

[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?

[cardfan]

iphone killer? lol

Nothing made by BB will ever be an iphone killer for many reasons..same with any WM device if HTC's diamond or touch pro is any indication.

[jamespaulritter]

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?

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!!!!! HTC Touch HD (Blackstone) - news, rumors, firmwares, software, help, forum about new HTC HD phone

[Tunnelrunner]

In addition to what JamesPaulRitter said, IMHO, I don't think an I-clone would be an Iphone killer; it would have to be something different from what we already have. I think the real competition will come from the oft-delayed BB Bold. That thing is GORGEOUS. Had I not decided on the 3G, I'd be rocking a Bold right now. Maybe I could carry around BOTH of them...

[jamespaulritter]

I think also to some degree the new BB will allow BB users to cross over to the iphone. I am a WM Pro user that crossed over due to the WM HTC Touch. I found out how much I liked screen real estate when using the Touch and that pushed me to the iphone.

[jamespaulritter]

Originally Posted by cardfan

iphone killer? lol

Nothing made by BB will ever be an iphone killer for many reasons..same with any WM device if HTC's diamond or touch pro is any indication.

You really cant compare the the Touch Pro or the diamond to the iphone. In my opinion neither of these HTC devices are really after the iphone market. The iphone is a media centric device with a 3.5 inch screen as a window to this media.

The HTC devices u listed have a 2.8 inch screen. When a user looks from one to the other they dont see a .7 inch difference,,,,,, they see a "big screen VS. little screen difference".

The average WM user has only a few applications and barely any music. We of course are not average users. We are junkies that chat about phones on the net
The average Touch Pro user thinks that they have a touch screen phone with a keyboard to make it easier to send text messages They dont realize its a mobile computer!!!

However almost all iphone users know they have a a video playing, music playing, picture showing, game playing, program running pda phone! Apple has done an awesome job making this device as -easy to use for its intended purpose.

Even when a HTC HD type device hits the US it still wont be a real iphone killer until MS learns something from Apples marketing and development

[hermdog]

I'll reserve judgment till its released. But I think it will be sometime till another vendor has a better looking interface.

[ratporchrico]

Short answer - no way. The whole iPhone experience is going to be hard to beat and it's part of the Jobs genius that iTunes was just the start. The way the iPhone integrates with iTunes and the way software updates are notified and delivered from within iTunes and access to the App store is so simple, clean, straightforward and essentially trouble free. For people like me who don't want to tinker too much under the hood, and I guess we're a majority, the simple elegant interface is a sure fire winner that other manufacturers of smart phones and PDAs will take an age to match.

[nick9283]

is it a killer? NO. is it something to play with at best buy or verizon store. yes. just to see what weak phones are like.

[johnny football hero]

Any word on which carrier and when will the HTC Touch HD be released?