Comments on: iPhone 3g v Blackberry - the phoney war for small business

By: Alex Bellinger

Alex Bellinger — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:52:28 +0000

@Tony, horses for courses agreed. But I think the boundaries between business and personal software are blurring.

@Sam very good point re SSH which I hadn’t thought of. That really would be very cool.

By: Sam - ArenaFlowers.com

Sam - ArenaFlowers.com — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:20:06 +0000

I have been on the fence, waiting for Apple or Blackberry to release the perfect device. I work in e-commerce which is basically a 24/7 job and as such can’t afford to be out of touch. But I also don’t want to be carting around a collection of handsets to do the one job. I am hoping that Apple have nailed it with the 3G iPhone (working in London you need 3G as GPRS regularly drops in the centre) and I also need a decent browser that can allow me to make updates to the website whilst on the move. The company that releases a device that supports SSH will win me (and our business) over.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:45:24 +0000

I’ve got both - a blackberry which I use for Business and a iPhone, primarily for personal use. They really do different things and although the new 3G iphones are offering Blackberry like push email capability/ sychronisation, overall I find the Blackberry a much better interface for managing emails.

Having said that it will take a lot to beat the iphone on most other fronts, such as web interface and MP3 etc.

It will really come down to what you want and need and howyou intend to use them