Given the choice, would it be iPhone or BlackBerry?

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[steve.ledger]

Given the choice, would it be iPhone or BlackBerry?

So why is there 'Other device' as an option?

Anyway, I like berries more than apples

[Soquili]

It would have to be Blackberry for me.

[brianlj]

If the iPhone took videos or had a half-way decent camera with a flash or if the Blackberry had WiFi or a decent keyboard, either of them might be in contention for a 'must-have' device. Without those things, their supposed killer features are just eye-candy.

Or should that be iCandy?

[steve.ledger]

...or if the Blackberry had WiFi .

But they do...

[RTK]

I voted "other device" -- If a leash was required in my life, I would prefer a stylish analogue one. Like this one: http://www.glamourdog.com/ban-lea-ram.html

Risto

[JET]

Palm.

Palm Grafitti takes about 30 minutes to master and is far better for text input than either ridiculously tiny and mechanically complex keypads or touchscreen querty keypads.

I presently have to use a company Blackberry, and hate it. It feels like a ball-and-chain (goes with the territory; not the device's fault), but doesn't balance that by providing me the upside of things I miss from my aging Tunsten T3: Loading my own Excel spreadsheets, FileMaker databases, thesaurus, dictionary, etc.--and Grafitti.

JET

[stlewis]

Sorry Jet... I used (and mastered Grafitti) for several years, but the Palm TX seemed very grumpy over it. I had two TXs as the first got drowned, so it must have been a design thing.

The HTC HD virtual keyboard *is* good - as you hit a key it 'flares' dark so you get visual feedback. Click/hold on a character gives you a shift function - so Q gives you 1, W 2 etc, and the second row gives punctuation. And if you want to use a letter recognizer or Grafitti-like function, it has those too.

This really is one of these deeply personal features - some people swear by X, others by Y. And 5 minutes playing in a shop is not really enough either - I suspect my disappointing experience on an iPhone was for that reason.

[JET]

To me, it's not about visual or any other kind of feedback that I have hit the right key on a tiny keyboard. I think the whole idea of tiny querty keyboards is fundamentally flawed from the get-go.

The querty keyboard was invented and intended for proper touch-typing (two hands, not looking at the keyboard). Anyone who can type can use a querty keyboard in the dark.

Having to visually locate a character on a querty keyboard too small for proper use, even to someone like me who has been touch-typing since high school, is inefficient to begin with. I despise having to look for keys to hit with my index finger or (worse) thumbs.

Grafitti avoids all that and lets me think text-linearly, exactly as if I were writing with a pencil ('cause that's what I'm doing). Give me that any day, on any device too small for proper use of a keyboard.

I despise answering emails on a Blackberry. Feels like my brain is slugging through molasses.

JET

[woolyloach]

I'll go for a Palm Pre!