Just like the title says, I prefer iPhone email over BlackBerry email. I was a three year BlackBerry user prior to my purchase of my 16GB Black iPhone 3G. These are the reasons why I like iPhone email better than the BlackBerry (BIS) email.
1. My iPhone email can display rich text (my BlackBerry could do this also because I was running beta OS 4.5) but still even with OS 4.5, the iPhone beats the BlackBerry in displaying email.
2. Email on the iPhone is simple to organize, all you have to do is tap edit>select email(s)>select folder>done. That how easy it is to organize email on iPhone. I could not organize my email like that on the BlackBerry.
3. I can scroll through my emails faster on my iPhone by scrolling my finger down the iPhone’s Multi-Touch screen. On my BlackBerry I had to use the track-ball, which sometimes could take forever on longer emails.
4. I know this doesn’t happen very often at all, but I like how I don’t have to worry about RIM’s servers going down like they did a few times this year. With my iPhone, my work email is always running 100%.
5. Integrated apps. I like how iPhone integrates Google Maps into emails. So that if lets say “Jill” sends me an email with the address to the restaurant she wants to go to tonight, I can tap the address, it will bring Google Maps up, and then I have the choice of calling the restaurant, mapping a route to the restaurant via GPS, or bookmarking the restaurant for later use.
August 27, 2008 at 8:35 pm
I agree totally!
September 6, 2008 at 8:47 pm
I agree that it’s much better for reading emails. It’s the creation of the emails that BlackBerry has it beat. I have both now (BlackBerry is for work) and I can’t believe how slower (after fixing typos) the iPhone keyboard is…