treo vs blackberry

[wadebill]

I recently had a blackberry curve for a short time while my 680 was not working. The email on the blackberry is amazing. and the reason so many business people, etc use them is because they always work. Yes, I heard about the RIM network going down etc but they are reliable. However, for texting, they are useless. There are no applications that I could find that would segregate text messages from email messages, so you would have to go through a mountain of email to find a text message. I'll stick to my quirky treo.

[Treotosh]

THE ORANGE TEXT SHOULD SAY IT ALL!!!

[Rebeckah]

Blackberry 20 minute setup
Treo 3 hour setup

Blackberry server setup 1.5 hour
JP Mobile Server 6+ hour

Average Blackberry issue: 10 minute
Average Treo issue: 3 hour

Blackberry wins

[LotusLord]

Really? 3 hours to set up a Treo? It takes me all of 10 minutes, if I were to hard reset my device, to resync my data over and be good to go.

The fact that your company likely already has an Exchange server which is compatible with both Palm OS and Windows Mobile, means that server setup is negated.

Perhaps in your experience Treo issues have taken 3 hours to fix, but when I was working with a company rolling out BBs it took them several days to get kinks worked out. With frequent issues relating to mail syncronization still happening when I stopped working for them.

[Pete Lorenz]

Originally Posted by Rebeckah

Blackberry 20 minute setup
Treo 3 hour setup

Blackberry server setup 1.5 hour
JP Mobile Server 6+ hour

Average Blackberry issue: 10 minute
Average Treo issue: 3 hour

Blackberry wins

3rd-party apps (now more than 51,000 of them)
touch screen
device customization
extreme versatility
native Word, Excel and Powerpoint creation and editing
it can do BB stuff; BB cannot do Palm stuff

Palm wins (for anyone needing any more than email...and, as treotosh has pointed out, that's no longer an issue, either).

(P.S. Anyone taking more than 3 minutes to resolve a Palm issue is a serious rookie....
a company's IT / IT personnel issues are not a Palm limitation. And, not everyone used to a horse and carriage is going to be comfortable with, say, a Dodge Viper)

[forgot]

Wow.....
.....and well put.

[Pete Lorenz]

Originally Posted by contradude

well... here is my two cents. I have had a treo 755p and it is running rock solid. very few crashes and most of them were because of the alpha and beta testing I was doing. I just played with a blackberry curve that a friend of mine purchased and I was glad that I chose the palm solution. blackberry's user interface is a bit rough. it feels more like a feature phone instead of a smart phone to me... then again, you have to choose the right tool for the right job. sure the garnet OS is a bit dated but it is very battle-tested . as a mobile power user, I know I have selected the right choice for me. excuse me, I need to vnc into my server and check an update, then play some super nintendo on my phone to relax

HUH!.....take that, BB!
lol.....thank you, contradude....well versed.
I, too, have used both, and agree with every point you've made.
In June of 2005, I had a new BB 7100T. I was amazed, having come from a Nokia flip-phone.
In August of 2005, I bought the new 650 from Palm. For 3 or 4 months, I dealt with the typical quirks. Three years later, same 650, modded ROM, no quirks, 30+ 3rd-party apps, and, the newest BBs I've played with appear to be email-capable feature phones.
I have 2 GSM 680s, NIB coming from eBay

excuse me......I have to grab my 650, FTP download an estimate I did (Excel spreadsheet) from my server, revise it in native format, and email it to a client (all told, about 1 min, 10 secs), and then listen to one of about 300 radio stations piped into my S9s via SAG and pTunes to relax