<p>Im getting a new phone this week and I ve narrowed down my choices to the iphone and blackberry bold. I ve done alot of research for the two and know that blackberries are for business use and iphone is for entertainment and media. Which of these would be more useful in college. Are the business uses for the blackberry practical in college or would i just need the entertainment part of the iphone when im bored around campus. I plan to use my phone to keep organized which is why i m considering blackberry bold but i ve looked through the app store and have found many school related productivity apps for free. Which one do you find to be more useful for college students and why?</p>
<p>I have a curve and an ipod touch, and I love my ipod touch for web browsing when I’m in bed, the browser is nice, I hate the on screen keyboard a lot though. I have a lot of games for it, which are fun and REALLY drain the battery, so I’m not sure how much better the battery life would be on an iPhone. I love my curve, texting is great, aim is great, msn is great, the web browser is eh at best, but there are some good ones like opera mini and bolt that can give you a pretty good web browsing experience. I love the push e-mail, it’s fast and really handy. I see the iPhone as more of a toy, I don’t know what kind of apps you can get that are school related, but chances are that you probably won’t really use them as much as you think you would.</p>
<p>For me it’s hands down the Blackberry. It really depends if you text/e-mail/aim/facebook a lot, because the blackberry wins in that category hands down. Any applications that you might find for your iPhone that would be useful for school are most likely going to be available on a laptop, which you most likely would have available to you when you need those applications. I also am biased since I have had two touch screen phones and I hated them, hate the on-screen keyboard on the iPhone/touch and text a lot.</p>
<p>iphoneeeeeeeeeeeeee</p>
<p>forever and ever and ever amen</p>
<p>there are a bunch of great apps for keeping organized and it has the entertainment bonus. i use my iphone as a datebook which is a+, i can find a nearby restaurant no matter where i am, i can always get directions when i’m getting out of the subway and having trouble situating myself, etc. it’s just so good.</p>
<p>I’ve had the 2nd generation 8gb iPhone for over a year now and love it. Some people might say that the touch screen keyboard is difficult, or the they think they’re fingers are too fat to use it, etc, but it’s really not. After the first couple days of entering all of your contacts and numbers in, you already get the hang of it. On top of that, you can find applications on seriously anything imaginable, from really useful ones to help your organization to completely pointless ones that might even dumb you down. But overall it’s really great, fun, and handy if you ask me. Also, if you jailbreak your iPhone, you can literally customize anything and EVERYTHING, which is a huge plus to me. Oh yeah, people might say that the con to it is that there’s no video, but there actually are apps that allow you to record video. Another con people would say is that there’s no MMS, but they’re apps that allow you to send and receive them too. I think that Blackbery Bold may have some good features and functions that can help you with being organized and everything, but I think that iPhone can give you all of that and more just since there’s literally thousands, maybe millions of applications available to you, and if you really want some custom crazy one, you can make it yourself or request it to be made by some programmers who definitely have the time.</p>
<p>I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate my iPhone. Did I say that I really hate it?</p>
<p>It freezes all of the time. Constantly. Particularly when I’m on the phone; just this morning, I was leaving a friend a message on her answering machine, it froze, and I couldn’t hang up the phone. So my phone remained on, making a call, and didn’t hang up until her answering machine kicked my phone off twenty-five minutes later.</p>
<p>Not to mention I’m lucky if I can even get a signal. How the Hell can you not get a signal in Mahattan?!</p>
<p>The iPhone is Satan’s phone. Supposedly I just got a “bad phone” but Apple won’t give me a new one. They just keep telling me to restart it.</p>
<p>If you’re accident prone and drop your phone, go over to the Parent’s Cafe and see what the costs are for replacing your Iphone screen.</p>
<p>See: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/691200-has-anyone-cracked-glass-their-iphone-awful-facts-about-iphone-breakage.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/691200-has-anyone-cracked-glass-their-iphone-awful-facts-about-iphone-breakage.html</a></p>
<p>Two pages of comments (27 responses so far…).</p>
<p>Get the iPhone. I had the Bold for 3 months and it has issues with the firmware still. AT&T made it so that the Bold will automatically switch between 3G and 2G (fast and slow internet for those noobs). This causes MAJOR dropped calls and it is ridiculous. I traded it in for a Fuze and I am MUCH happier.</p>
<p>how reliable are iphones? my current phone freezes occasionally and i have heard that iphones can freeze periodically.
does the iphone freeze for randomly or is it just 3rd party apps that it will act weird? will i have regrets for buying it?</p>
<p>skip both, and just go for the G1!</p>
<p>I’m waiting on the Blackberry Niagara to come out on Verizon. It is Verizon though so it’ll probably come out in 2085. I hate VZW.</p>
<p>I tried the iPhone. The novelty wears off after awhile and AT&T was annoying. Plus, I have an iPod Touch. I’d go with the Bold but VZW has better service for me.</p>
<p>I had an iphone and have a blackberry curve now. you can’t really go wrong either way, but I like the blackberry better because:</p>
<ul>
<li>cheaper plans</li>
<li>bbming!</li>
<li>overall very functional</li>
<li>much much more durable</li>
<li>keyboard > touch screen, for me anyway</li>
</ul>
<p>the internet isn’t amazing but it works</p>
<p>Neither. The new Palm Pre blows them both out of the water.</p>
<p>@nhsvs: Agreed. Plus Sprint is 100x better than Verizon and AT&T. $70 a month for unlimited (well 5gb cap) bandwidth, unlimited texts/mms, unlimited nights (starting at 7pm) and weekends, 450 minutes, now that is what I call a deal.</p>
<p>oh don’t get the blackberry, if i hear someone say the phrase “BBM” again i’m going to cry.</p>
<p>Blackberry…FTW</p>
<p>I have a Blackberry and its awesome.</p>
<p>I haven’t had a single complaint with my iPhone. I can’t even describe how large the step up has been from my BlackBerry. The clickwheel is quite possibly the worst piece of gadgetry I’ve ever had to use.</p>
<p>We have iPhone 3G and Blackberry Bolds in our household.</p>
<p>The iPhone is better for games, youtube, and for browsing of general (non-smartphone optimized) websites. When data entry is required, the iPhone suffers as half the screen is consumed by the keyboard. Short iPhone battery life requires disciplined use, midday plugin, or a piggyback battery. No insurance is available on the iPhone. Ringtones require 99 cent song purchase from iTunes and a 99 cent fee to convert the song to a ringtone.</p>
<p>The Bold is a better phone with dedicated send and end keys, voice dialing, stereo bluetooth, flexible ring profiles, long talk and standby times. Data entry and PDA functions are solid on the Bold. The Bold also supports Bluetooth data exchange (OBEX) with your Mac or PC. AT&T will insure the Bold for the usual $5/month. Ringtones can be clipped from your music and downloaded as mp3’s to the bold for free.</p>
<p>Both phones browse smartphone optimized sites well. The iPhone browses general sites better, but data entry on general sites is easier with the Bold. Much more software exists for the iPhone, but you’ll need to decide which software will be useful to you.</p>
<p>Neither is a substitute for a laptop.</p>
<p>PM if you have specific questions.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Sorry, but that’s only one method. </p>
<p>I don’t know how it’s done on a PC as I only have a Mac, but on a Mac, all you do is pop an mp3 into GarageBand (which is part if Apple’s iLife), select the section you want as a ringtone, and in the dropdown menu, you select “Send ringtone to iTunes”. It’s extremely easy, free, and totally legit.</p>
<p>I know there’s ways of doing it on Windows, though.</p>
<p>Adam,</p>
<p>Thanks for the Garage band tip.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>And the clickwheel hasn’t been in a blackberry in the last three years.</p>
<p>Go Bold, you’ll love it.</p>