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iPhone vs Blackberry Curve 8330 (Canada)
Anyone own one or the other?
I'm sitting on the fence and hope to make a decision relatively soon.
[Background: I'm a grad student, graduating in May. I am involved in a small business as a side project and don't have too many critical emails, but I am online all the time and like to check my emails every few hours. Between school and work functions, I find myself reading and replying to emails fairly often. I'm a fairly tech savvy "prosumer." I'd love to consolidate my pockets and have a phone that can take decent pictures, play media while I'm on the bus..and do some productivity functions]
iPhone is definitely sexier and funner. Better for net surfing and media.
Blackberry can also surf the net poorly, play media in an okay way, but is better for push emails. Better support for business apps still, but iPhone has an evolving software that may match this.
The QWERTY keyboard is nice for emails, but it's not quite a game breaker for me. I'm a mild phone user and not terribly big on txting.
On a 3 year contract, I can get the blackberry for 53$/month averaging in the cost of the phone or an iPhone for $72/month averaged.
[Blackberry: 250 day minutes, evenings and weekends @6, the usual extras, unlimited data]
[iPhone: 200 minutes (by the second, >250), evenings@5 and weekends, 1gig data]
Thoughts? Any feedback much appreciated!
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