Comments on: Blackberry Bold vs Curve vs iPhone 3G vs Nokia e65 vs Treo 750 (not your typical review)

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By: Curtis

Curtis — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:22:59 +0000

You’re very welcome, Franz. That is one thing that I wished the bold had: VoIP. I know T-Mobile has it on a few of their phones, including the Curve. Unfortunately, T-Mobile doesn’t exist in my area, and as far as I know, they used a fairly closed technology for their VoIP service… GSM over IP or something like that. I wish someone would write a decent SIP client for the Blackberry OS. It’s long overdue. For such a “business-class” phone, Blackberry should have been one of the first to integrate such technology. We use voice over IP at my office, and it would be very nice to be able to connect to that using wi-fi and not use the cellular minutes to make calls. But, what can you do. Just hope I guess.

To the iPhone’s credit. VoIP was possible using the fring app. But the application had to be open to receive a call…. not very practical. And I’m pretty much writing a whole other post in a reply. Perhaps I will just write a new post, yes?

By: Franz

Franz — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:21:30 +0000

Thanks for the comprehensive, “real world” review. I’ve also owned a number of phones over the years, like Startacs in the 90s and Nokias in this decade, with some sort of Palm Pilot along the way. I ignored the handspring phones and then was so pumped when the Treo 600 came out (remember that hype cycle?… geez), I plunked down almost $700 directly from Palm including overnight shipping.

Besides the crappy pictures, it was so poorly designed from a weight/balance perspective that I nearly dropped it on the rug 3 times the first 10 minutes I owned it. I promptly got an RMA and returned it.

Once I had my first Blackberry 7200 series, I never looked back. Through the 8700 series and then the TMobile curve (with wifi – awesome) I was in heaven. You don’t appreciate the WIFI UMA calling until you are in the middle of nowhere (no cell coverage) but… they have WIFI. Its like magic to be able to make a call.

Until my employer insisted they buy me an ATT curve to work on their BES. Lack of WIFI is definitely a bummer, but oh, how I love this keyboard, and frankly, thought that the 8800 and, now, the 9000 keyboard were almost impossible to use when compared with the Curve.

After this review, however, I’m willing to consider the Bold again, which would dovetail nicely into the company plan, for better or worse.

Thanks.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:32:50 +0000

I will point out that the iPhone can do video capture, and quite well if it is jailbroken. Plus with the addition of qik, you can stream video directly to the internet. Quite nice. I see where you are coming from for all the other scored on the iPhone though. It is just all round a SLOW phone and in this fast paced world, it isn’t up to par.