iPhone 3GS or Blackberry 9700?

[Ron99]

Originally Posted by kien

As for connecting to an exchange server, the iPhone does this just fine, with one caveat, you can only have ONE exchange server configured on your iPhone. It is possible they may change this in the future but as it stands, you can only have one. This means if your personal email account and your work email account are both on exchange servers, you can only have one of them configured with the 'exchange server' option on the iphone, allowing push email.

Syncing to more than one Exchange account will be in iPhone OS 4 this summer.

As for the whole BB vs. iPhone thing, really there is no comparison in my mind. It's comparing Apples and Oranges (sorry for the pun). As I see it Apple did not set out to make a better phone. They set out to make a great portable media player, internet communicator and computing device. Oh, what the hell, let's include a phone too.

The iPhone is great at playing videos (keeps the kids entertained in the store check out line) has my music and plugs into my car stereo. No need to lug a bunch of CDs in and out of the car anymore. Got my own playlist, the kids playlist etc. It's great for surfing the web, getting email, playing games if you want to, or doing almost anything you want with one of the 100,000 apps out there. The google maps app is really useful for getting around and finding nearby things.

I'm sure the BB does many of these things but I also know that RIM does not spend the same amount of time or money researching human interfaces and they don't have a perfectionist control freak CEO like Steve Jobs who insists on things working well before they go out the door. The iPhone was a paradigm shift in smart phones. And while others have made strides to get close, the iPhone is sill ahead and will only get better this summer with new hardware and the next version of the OS.