Could you accomplish more with iPhone or BlackBerry

This would be a first for me to discuss how each tool stacks up. It's an iPhone vs BlackBerry post.

I think for this discussion I will focus on three key aspects of personal organizers for both smartphones.

Today, we'll discuss about email.

BlackBerry - in terms of email the BB still comes up tops. Key features include push mail, separate signatures for different accounts, autotext (which allows you to configure short-hand for frequently used phrases), and ability to send attachments within the email application.

iPhone: Until recently push mail was limited to yahoo and MobileMe. Now that Google has joined in the game it has made it possible for me to get push mail for my corporate email. However major limitations exist (and some not entirely Apple's fault). For instance push mail via Microsoft Exchange is not totally reliable. We've experienced downtime a couple of times. Another limitation is email attachments. You can't send a new email with attachments, that is unless you have a MobileMe or DropBox account. That makes it extremely annoying. Also, unless you can put up with using TextExpander, which requires you to type your email within TextExpander and then copy and paste into the email application. That to me is so yesterday. Besides, you can only have one MS Exchange account so which requires you to purchase apps like GPush to push your other gmail account. Of course not everyone needs push mail but for those of us who needs to response to our customers fast the iPhone has major limitations for email.


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