<p>i want the iphone, but how good is the battery life</p>
<p>battery life is pretty good as long as you follow some of the energy saving tips (i.e. turn push notifications off).</p>
<p>Blackberry Bold…
edit: if Verizon, Blackberry Tour. If Sprint, Palm Pre.</p>
<p>AT&T’s service is reason enough not to get the iPhone. I’m in the middle of Manhattan and can’t get service in several places here. At my intership, I always have to walk up to the roofdeck to use my phone as I have zero service in the office. At my old apartment, I had to stick my head out the window to make calls.</p>
<p>Verizon has better service, any company that had service in flipping Plattsburgh is a winner to me.</p>
<p>Blackberry for business, IPhone for entertainment. Palm Pre blows them both away, but the Sprint/Nextel network sucks.</p>
<p>From someone who has owned both an iphone and a blackberry in my experience the blackberry was the better phone and I wish I would have gotten it sooner. Iphone customer service is horrible and consider this if something goes wrong with your iphone you can’t just take it into the store like you could a blackberry you have to send it away to apple so are you fine with not having your phone for a few weeks when something goes wrong with it and it needs to be serviced? Another thing check out the service coverage like another user said because for me at&t was basically non exsistant where I went to school and I was kicked out of the network many times one time for two whole days where I couldn’t make, receive, or send phone calls or text messages. So in the long run I think the blackberry is the better way to go considering many of the key feature on regular cell phones and blackberry the iphone doesn’t have or isn’t built to do such as:</p>
<p>-No MMS texting as in you can’t send or receive picture messages from someone unless you can go to a computer and log on to the at&t website with a password to view what they sent you </p>
<p>-No wireless syncing as in you can only sync your phone with a cable and not through wifie or blue tooth </p>
<p>-No video recording capabilities unless you want to jail break your phone</p>
<p>-No forwarding text messages</p>
<p>-No full browser as it doesn’t support java, flash, or other plug ins so the full browser is actually limited.</p>
<p>^ I think the iPhone can send MMS text now with the new update? I might be wrong.</p>
<p>But I do agree. Blackberries are superior. I like the web browser on the iPhone though.</p>
<p>As of now the iphone is not MMS capable. Apple says they plan on making it MMS capable in the future, but there is no set date or word of when they plan on doing this as of now.</p>
<p>The 3GS CAN forward text messages, can record videos, and will be able to send MMS’s soon (I think they said early August?).</p>
<p>Honestly, I had the Blackberry Curve and Bold, then switched to an iPhone. As a college student, it’s so much nicer. I can instantly check the weather so I can get dressed, check my email to make sure class isn’t cancelled/I don’t forget something important, write myself a note (I love to-do lists), and Facebook my friends, all while getting ready in the morning. I love visual voicemail, I honestly think every phone should have it. Oh, and there’s an app for you to make ringtones.</p>
<p>The curve was a nice phone while I had it, worked well enough, but then one day decided to not let me answer phone calls/check text messages… so I took the battery out for a day, and put it in, and now it worked! Except… all the text was in Arabic. So I went to the AT&T store and they said they couldn’t do anything to fix it. I got the Bold as a replacement, and it was fine, but way too bulky for my taste. The screen’s bright, and I liked the fact that the internet browser had an arrow to click links, rather than just scrolling down. The trackball on both got stuck very easily, and I’d have to find ways around using it, which were difficult.</p>
<p>Just my two cents, anyways.</p>
<p>^ I had the same problem when I had the Bold! Someone would call me and on their end it goes straight to voicemail and on my end, my phone wouldn’t ring!</p>
<p>I got like 4 replacements before I cancelled with AT&T. Total BS cause I loved the keyboard and the screen was SUPER bright.</p>
<p>Yeah I was not impressed with AT&T’s service at all. When I had the iphone through them I went through 3 because something on the network would always go screwy or my phone wouldn’t let me call out or when someone would call me it wouldn’t let me answer the phone. The iphone would be good if it would get a better carrier than AT&T. I canceled my contract early with them because I to was tired of the BS of always having calls dropped or lost so I switched to verizon with a pink blackberry curve and I have no complaints.</p>
<p>I’m an Apple fan-boy with an iPod Touch (love it!) and a Verizon cell phone. I will wait for Verizon before I switch to the iPhone. 
I hope it’s not years away. :(</p>
<p>I think they are both insanely expensive, both the phone itself as well as the monthly plans. I have a HTC Touchpro and a sprint plan. I pay $26 a month for 500 minutes, unlimited nights and weekends, unlimited text as well as unlimited data. Compare that to the nearly $70-$90 you will need to pay for a BB or iPhone. I just don’t see it as worth it.</p>
<p>^The iPhone’s data plan is $20/month for unlimited data…?</p>
<p>I think it’s a $30 mandatory unlimited data plan.</p>
<p>iphone man do you realize how many apps you can get if you jail break it lol you can get anythinng… will keep you much more occupied then a blackberry, with an iphone you can do everything a blackberry does besides BBM but who need that when you got AIM… but w/e if you really need a keyboard then go with blackberry their still nice but overall phone wise [ measuring it by what you can do with the phone ] iphone blows blackberry away</p>
<p>I have a Blackberry Pearl and it sucks. 
I want an iPhone!</p>
<p>I tried jail breaking my iphone when I had it but, jail breaking is complicated very time consuming and voids any warranty on the phone that you have so when something goes wrong they won’t fix it for you. ^^ I was thinking about getting the pearl, but the key pad on that sucks so I got the curve and I love it.</p>
<p>lol jail breaking is really not that hard … and umm Yea it voids warranty but all you gota do if you do run into problems is restore to factory settings and they wont ever know [ trust my friend did it, sent it back into apple and got it fixed ] haha like i said before iphone can do everything a blackberry do besides BBM and will keep you 10x more occupied when your bored with all the apps you got … the only thing i see people with blackberries do are BBM, go on the fake internet, or play that brickbreaker game lmao</p>
<p>thanks everyone. I have att and love it but then again I have a samsung phone which connects everywhere and everywhere, so reading this posts u makes me want to keep my samsung. If any of you are globla travelers, get a samsung just to travel. It is a 3g global connection. I have been in the dessert, jungles, third world countries and got connection. I used the blackberry for a little while and hated it. Probally going to get an iphone and have my samsung for emergencys.</p>