For all the talk about whether the iPhone is going to hammer the Blackberry, there are plenty of reasons why that won’t happen.
Perhaps the biggest – and the most obvious – is the Blackberry has a fully-functional keyboard so you can easily write e-mails, text messages and blog posts.
Aside from the Blackberry’s durability and robust e-mail system, the keyboard is arguably the Blackberry’s killer app. Sure, people complain their thumbs are too big for the keys but, all in all, you can type quickly with a Blackberry. That’s something you can’t say with the iPhone, which uses a touch-screen keyboard.
According to Walter Mossberg, Google’s new G1 phone has a keyboard, although he says “The keys are a bit flat, and you have to reach your right thumb around a bulging portion of the phone’s body to type”.
So for all you Blackberry naysayers – and I’m talking to you BusinessWeek – now you know what the Blackberry is still riding high.
More: If the G1 ever comes to Canada, I’d love to give it a whirl. Still waiting on the Samsung Instinct. For more on the G1, go here and read to your heart’s content.
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It’s the Keyboard, Stupid
For all the talk about whether the iPhone is going to hammer the Blackberry, there are plenty of reasons why that won’t happen.
Perhaps the biggest – and the most obvious – is the Blackberry has a fully-functional keyboard so you can easily write e-mails, text messages and blog posts.
Aside from the Blackberry’s durability and robust e-mail system, the keyboard is arguably the Blackberry’s killer app. Sure, people complain their thumbs are too big for the keys but, all in all, you can type quickly with a Blackberry. That’s something you can’t say with the iPhone, which uses a touch-screen keyboard.
According to Walter Mossberg, Google’s new G1 phone has a keyboard, although he says “The keys are a bit flat, and you have to reach your right thumb around a bulging portion of the phone’s body to type”.
So for all you Blackberry naysayers – and I’m talking to you BusinessWeek – now you know what the Blackberry is still riding high.
More: If the G1 ever comes to Canada, I’d love to give it a whirl. Still waiting on the Samsung Instinct. For more on the G1, go here and read to your heart’s content.
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