Blackberry Bold versus IPhone

I’ve written previously about my love for my Blackberry.  It’s a great device.

I’ve almost completely stopped using my home computer, except for photo use, and some blogging.

I’ve moved 95% of my email reading/responding to my Blackberry.  I’ve started updating Facebook from my Blackberry.  I even Twitter from my Blackberry.

Things I’d like to see:

• I really need an app that will read my email for me.  If I’m in the car, and get an email, my phone will beep.  A certain beep for home email, and a certain beep for work email.  If I’m in the car, and have my Bluetooth headset on, why can’t the phone read the email to me so I can at least know who it is from, the subject, and maybe the first few lines of the email?
• A replacement for Jott.com .  I loved the Jott.com service.  But after they went to a paid model, it become much less attractive to me.  I just don’t use it enough to justify the outlay that it would cost me.  How about an application that can be activated by calling a number and leaving a message.  Then, that message is transcribed and sent to me via email.  Great for note taking, etc, while driving.
• A decent GMail client.  The GMail client that is available for the Blackberry is pretty good.  It has a major (to me) bug in it that when you first open it up, it doesn’t do a refresh.  So the newest messages, if you have received any, don’t automatically show up until you do a refresh.  This refresh happened in previous version of the client, but with 2.0.6, which is the latest version available for the Blackberry, this does NOT happen.
• A better browser.  This is my #1 request.  The Blackberry browser really is horrible, in my opinion.  Especially if you try to view website that use Javascript.  Fix it, Fix it, fix it!

I’ve seen recent commercials about the cool apps available for the IPhone.  I’ve read about the nice new features of the Blackberry Bold.  But I still think there is  a  market for Blackberry apps, both for the Bold and for (somewhat) older Blackberries.

 

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