On a sidenote, I think having data connection on your phone (email/internet/gps) is a MUST for me. Receiving emails about inquiries, questions, etc from potential customers and then being able to call them within 10 minutes could be what seals the deal for some people.
Also, I use my phone for: tracking project details (wedding details, vendor information, tasks, calendars), I can even process credit cards with a free CC app, GPS for directions, searching for nearby locations/restaurants, all things that I use on a daily basis.
That just scratches the surface on 3-5 apps out of the 50+ on my phone.
I even saved a bride's first dance one time! DJ had wrong remix of their choice first-dance song. It was important that they had a very specific version because they had choreographed a nice dance for it. I was able to download their song on the spot ($.99) and then save the DJ from a bigger embarrassment.
Blackberry if you need/want the physical keyboard, iPhone if you're ok with using the virtual keyboard.
I'd love to use the iPhone, but I can't stand texting/emailing with it (and that's what the bulk of my phone usage is), so I'm still on the Crackberry. Lots more apps for the iPhone, but I prefer the Blackberry for its core services.
I agree that data is a must have. The GPS/email work great on the Crackberry (just download GoogleMaps ASAP) and the browser is serviceable, but iPhone's Safari is a far superior web browser.
iPhone, hands down.... Has saved me hundreds of times going to locations, Keeping track of things, using it for quick internet, remote shooting, saving notes for weddings etc...
i did a similar thing, they wanted the Dj to play a song by santana and they didnt have it so i popped out my iphone and used it for one song they requested
iphone! paid $250 for early termination with other carrier just to get iphone. Now that I use it, I feel it would even worth to pay $500! What took me so long!!!
If the service provider is of no importance to you, iphone.
We have sprint and we needed to stick with it for family reasons, so we have the palm pre. Neato little phone, but I wish we had all the cool apps that there are for iphone. On the good side, though, we have a nice keyboard that pulls out and the screen is better. But the apps are just not up to snuff.
it's gotta be the iPhone. Not sure I 100% trust the GPS though, once it lead me to the wrong place and another time O2's (UK provider) data network went down just as I was trying to find my way to the Church...
ai3x wrote:
it's gotta be the iPhone. Not sure I 100% trust the GPS though, once it lead me to the wrong place and another time O2's (UK provider) data network went down just as I was trying to find my way to the Church...
Plus once in a tiny little south coast village it was a lot less reliable at finding the wedding venue than the "old skool" method of "asking a local" that the other, much more talented, photographer used
There is rumor that the iPhone will be available to Verizon cutomers by the third quarter of 2010. I have a Blackberry now and it is a good phone, but I want the iPhone for the apps.
Ironically, on my iPhone, the GPS works better now I am in Kenya than when I was in the UK because the signal is better. I can't do routes or anything, but the map loading is much quicker and seems more accurate also.
iPhone rocks, it's costing me a fortune (couldn't get out of contract before leaving so still paying £40 a month + now using a Kenyan sim so have to pay for calls etc.) but still worth it.
Wonder if iPhone will ever NOT be tied to ATT - I like my carrier and won't move to them just for a phone.
If they had iPhones available with Verizon/Allel - I would be there in a heartbeat. If anything just for www.thebestcamera.com - Chase Jarvis invention.
The iPhone is the ONLY phone that is continuously supported and upgraded. I don't know why other companies can't figure that out. Rather than releasing millions of slightly different models every few weeks and rendering the old ones obsolete, Apple supports their old models so well that you know you'll be making a good purchase now and in the future.
My 1st generation iPhone is nearing 3 years old and Apple is STILL constantly updating and improving it...
