Is a Bold Blackberry better than an Apple 3G?
August 16, 2008
Canadian RIM just cannot rest in peace as the world is showering accolades on the latest mobile phone sensation; the Apple iPhone 3G Mobile Phone. Perhaps, you cannot be blamed if you find a tinge of prejudice in that midset of their, behind the conception of the Blackberry Bold 9000 3G Mobile Phone. This mobile phone from RIM that has started to be known widely as the ‘iPhone killer’ is due in the month of September. You know well that the Apple iPhone 3G has emerged as the talk of the town not just for its myriad features but the cost at which, it comes. If its predecessor, the Apple iPhone was gayly called the ‘Jesus Phone’, the same euphoria continues here too as the neonate has started to be called the ‘3Jesus Phone’. Do you take it as one of the numerous effects of the 3G?
Ergonomics
Both these models have at least one thing in common and that is their weighing 133 grams apiece. In dimensions, the iPhone has the leading edge, even though nominally at 115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3 mm as against the Bold phone’s 127 x 66 x 12.7 mm. The part where, the iPhone 3G scores is the display sector. Its multi-touch display explains almost everything about touch-controls ranging from accessing music and videos to audio books and podcasts with a simple touch. A commoner would llike its multi-touch screen with a 3.5” large display and virtual keypad for the quick access properties shrouding them, such as scrolling through your playlists as well as song numbers after synchronising music files from the iTunes library on your PC. However, if you are a business executive, you just might find this type of keypad a bit cumbersome as against a full QWERTY keypad of the Bold Phone that offers exceptional typing convenience. In the Bold Phone this part is further fortified by a navigation assisting trackball to defend its counterpart’s mighty multi-touch screen. The trackball acts just like a mouse by making navigation through websites as well as zooming in on the desired areas of the websites.
Innovative Applications
Here, both these mobile phones once again holds a similarity by announcing that a mobile phone must be something a bit more than just hardware. Both the models come emblazoned with an array of innovative software applications. The iPhone 3G proudly displays a variety of business applications like Mobile Me, eBay and a Blackberry style Push-Email application. MobileMe application is all about an enhanced way of helping you in accessing the internet to obtain your emails, calendar and photographs and synchronising instantly with multiple devices. The eBay application allows you to be connected with events like bids or auctions as the Push-email enables you to pick your emails as soon as they hit your mailbox. Apart from these, the iPhone 3G also presents a couple of amusement based applications too such as the ‘Band’ that alters the phone’s touchscreen icons to various music instruments like a piano or a bass guitar and Monkey Ball, a oftware that forms the platform to conceive innovative games of motion sensitivity. Blackberry Bold mobile phone outclasses the iPhone 3G with a Go Suite application coming preloaded with Data Viz documents that entitles you to edit your downloaded Excel, Word or Powerpoint files. The iPhone 3G too is capable to download these Microsoft files but fails miserably in the editing part. Further, the Bold phone also touts of a couple of multimedia aiding software like the Roxio Photosuite 9LE and the Roxio Media Manager those assist you in managing your video and music files.
Connectivity Features
In this sector too, both these mobile phones flaunt almost all the advanced niceties such as UMTS(3G), HSDPA, Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi, apart from the conventional GPRS and EDGE. Both these mobile phones can be operated almost anywhere in the world provided network facilities, being supported by Triband UMTS and Quadband GSM. Both these devices come with GPS properties as well. However, the Bold phone has an edge over the iPhone 3G here, for the former comes with a built-in GPS system smartly assisted by Blackberry maps as the latter can only say about an assisted GPS.
Imaging and Multimedia
Perhaps the iPhone 3G slightly outscores its opponent here, for primarily, it being an iPod in the heart. You not only can access the iTunes library on your PC or Mac, but also can browse through your artwork albums engaging an application called Cover Flow. Other significant applications such as Band and Monkey ball fortifies this phone further. The Bold phone would never go down without a fight, for it comes with a remarkable media player studded with an equaliser with as good as eleven preset filters that in their turns soften or boost audio levels to render the optimum ambience. Moreover, it has also a trick or two up its sleeves in the forms of Roxio Media Manager and Photosuite 9LE. Both the mobile phone models come with integrated 2 megapixel cameras. The Bold phone has its camera backed up by a 5 x digital zoom as the iPhone 3G flaunts the geo-tagging feature as the major attraction.
Other Significant Features
Another area where, the Apple iPhone 3G PDA Mobile Phone scores over its rival is the memory part. Here, it comes with a whopping 8GB flash memory with another option of an even bigger 16GB on-board memory. You might find the Blackberry Bold 9000 Smartphone Mobile Phone trailing
a bit here, with a mediocre flash memory of 128MB though, it offers an expansion slot of up to 8GB. The power features of both these models are similar with the batteries of either models yielding around five hours of talk time and twelve hours of standby time. The operating system engaged by the iPhone 3G is Apple’s MAC OS X as the Bold phone employs a Blackberry Version 4.6 OS. Finally, you have a colour option for the iPhone 3G, for it comes in black and white colours as the Bold phone offers you only a black casing.
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