Bold vs. iPhone. Kinda
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Debunk: BlackBerry Bold’s browser on WiFi actually not that slow - Engadget.
This might not be a fair fight, but not exactly how you might expect. You look and be the judge.
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Debunk: BlackBerry Bold’s browser on WiFi actually not that slow - Engadget.
This might not be a fair fight, but not exactly how you might expect. You look and be the judge.
While those who like to claim that the US broadband market is more competitive than it really is like to point to the rise of 3G wireless networks as proof, they almost always ignore the fact that those 3G networks come with insanely restrictive terms of service, that allow the providers to cut users off for almost any activity outside of email.
One of biggest stories behind the release of the iPhone 3G — and the iPhone 2.0 firmware update for first-generation iPhones — was the inclusion of features designed for use in business environments.
In what appears to be an increasingly common problem, hairline cracks are beginning to form on Apple’s new iPhone 3G.
To the casual observer, Apple has never been more successful: more than one million 3G iPhones were sold in the first weekend, millions of apps were downloaded, and the company is churning out buckets of cash.But I get the feeling that something is not right with Apple.
All of Apple’s US retail outlets are now in a permanent launch mode and will open as much as two hours earlier each day to accommodate the unprecedented demand for the new iPhone. Also, at least some locations are now giving customers rainchecks for the day’s iPhone 3G stock.
According to reporter Nobuyuki Hayashi, the camera of the iPhone 3G sold in Japan will make a shutter sound every time you take a photo, even if you put the telephone in silent mode. The reason: all those pervs taking photos up the skirts of unsuspected women in public places.
With the iPhone 3G not even ten days old, virtually all of the Apple retail store stores open within the United States are without any examples of the device to sell on July 21st.
If you’ve read Ars’ review of the iPhone 3G, you know our opinion on its usefulness as a replacement for the ubiquitous Blackberry family from RIM. (Hint: not quite there yet.) That doesn’t mean the two communication/Internet handhelds aren’t going up against each other for market and mind share.
Yes, for the past couple of weeks, there’s been someone new in my life: the Apple iPhone 3G. While everyone else had to wait until today to get their hands on the hottest gadget since the last iPhone came out, I have been flirting shamelessly with it for the past three weeks. Here is a review from one of the first in Britain to use the 3G iPhone.