Imagine being at the front of the line at a red light in your car while you're checking your phone. The BlackBerry feels like it's built like a tank. And I drop my phone a lot. It's solid and sturdy, with a matte casing that gives you a little bit of reassurance that you probably won't drop it.Įven if I did drop it, I wouldn't worry too much about it. It isn't gussied up in make-up or glass covered with shiny Apple logos.
The BlackBerry, in comparison, doesn't have that identity crisis. So you automatically lose some of its aesthetic value. But that's hampered because you are almost required to buy a case - unless you have a death grip on your phone at all times. It's probably the best looking phone out there. The iPhone is a gorgeous piece of hardware. What was once a beautifully crafted piece of art was now broken - and would slice open your finger if you touched it the wrong way. She picked it up and the back was completely shattered. I cringed, because I knew exactly what had happened. I asked a friend to pull out her phone so I could jot down a quick note. It slipped out of her hands and hit the ground. I would probably die without it.ĭuring my first week in New York, I was headed into the city from a subway station in Brooklyn. But Apple does have the edge with early access to applications. The only thing I'm really missing are games like Infinity Blade, but I didn't really play those to begin with.
The whole experience is probably a little step down from the iPhone's glossy versions, but it's worth it for the amount of time you save. It's easier to type a Tweet or a status update, so it ends up being faster. I'd also argue that those applications are also a little easier to use on the BlackBerry thanks to the physical keyboard. I don't have mindless Angry-Birds-Clone_01, but I don't really care about that. I still have Twitter, I still have Facebook and I still have Pandora. The Apple App Store boasts more than 300,000 applications, and the most popular apps usually end up on the Apple App Store before any other app store (outside of maybe Android).īut it's hard to argue that the BlackBerry doesn't have the same mission-critical apps that Apple has. If it lost this battle, Apple wouldn't even deserve to be the most valuable technology company in the world.Īpple starts off the game by flattening a BlackBerry defender with a slam dunk. It's such a ridiculously good app, Apple deserves three points for this. But Apple has music written into its DNA. There are a few shortcuts on the iPhone that I would never give up: double-clicking a headset button to jump to the next track, swiping on an album cover to jump back to the music library and finding specific titles with the search bar. It's done through a mix of swipes and taps instead of the painful trackpad navigation on the BlackBerry. Navigating the application is also much easier on the iPhone. I found that at 320 kbs quality (which is very high), the BlackBerry music player would stutter. The player never stutters regardless of the sound quality for the song. It's the best smartphone out there for playing music. The iPhone was built off the iPod and it is a far, far superior music player. Let's start with what the iPhone does best: music
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