IPhone versus Blackberry again (for the final time)

About a month ago, I switched from my Blackberry Pearl to an IPhone 3G. 

“Just to see how the other half lives” I told myself.

Well, after a month, I switched back to the Pearl. For about three hours.  I got so frustrated with the speed of the Blackberry, that I’ve switched back the IPhone 3G full time (even called AT&T and switched my Blackberry plan over to an IPhone plan, Visual Voicemail here I come) and I bought an application from the ITunes store.

I guess I’m a fanboy now. :-)

Some things I love about the IPhone:

• The browser is fantastic for my needs
• Their is a free app called Shazam that will listen to music and tell you what the song is, without any guidance from the user other than turning on the listen mode.  Pretty wicked.  I have discovered new music with this app, and it was free.
• Email – It supports IMap which is great for my office email, and IMap for GMail.  There (hopefully) will very soon be an application called GPush which will enable push notification for GMail.  This will make email work almost as well as on the Blackberry.
• Google Sync – I can modify all my contacts online on my computer and they automatically sync to the phone.  Awesome.

The things I don’t like:

• No voice dialing.  Supposedly will be implemented in 3.1 of the IPhone OS, but only on the 3Gs. 
• Battery life.  Battery life is pretty abysmal.  But I have a charger at home and I have a charger at work.  I also have access to a car charger for trips.

After my contract expires, I’m going to look into a 3Gs, but for now, the 3G will work for me. 

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