It's Finally Time to Ditch the Blackberry

The Black­ber­ry was once the leader in Smart­phone tech­nol­o­gy. The phone was excel­lent for orga­niz­ing your emails, con­tacts and cal­en­dar. It is still a great tool for those three items…oh and check­ing the weath­er. Besides that, the Black­ber­ry has final­ly begun to be out­dat­ed and lag­ging behind the new lead­ers: Google and Apple. I had sev­er­al Black­ber­ries for a few years and enjoyed the basic func­tions. That is until I switched to the iPhone. I recent­ly helped a cus­tomer trou­bleshoot his Black­ber­ry and real­ized just how slug­gish a Black­ber­ry con­tin­ues to be! He had a Storm 2, which is new! From a devel­op­ing stand­point, it is far more dif­fi­cult to cre­ate busi­ness apps and mobile web­sites for a Black­ber­ry. This is why the iPhone has over 150,000, Google has 40,000+ (?) and the Black­ber­ry has.…probably less than 20,000. Apple and Google have made it easy for nerds to cre­ate apps for their devices while Black­ber­ry con­tin­ues to be dif­fi­cult. The rea­son I believe it is time to ditch the Black­ber­ry is because the Apple and Google phones are great for busi­ness users. For exam­ple, with­in a few months, a tech­ni­cian can take an iPhone with him to a job site, do a repair, type up an invoice, take a cred­it card, swipe the card, receive pay­ment and email a receipt. How cool will that be? You can man­age and sched­ule appoint­ments from mul­ti­ple cal­en­dars from an iPhone, not from a Black­ber­ry. The ways you can run a busi­ness remote­ly and easy on an Apple or Google phone are far more pow­er­ful than a Black­ber­ry. The phones are also a lot more faster to oper­ate, search the web and easy to use. If you are hold­ing on tight to your Black­ber­ry because you don’t want to switch to AT&T or you don’t like Ver­i­zon’s Droid, hold off just anoth­er month or so until the Nexus One hits the stores. You can’t go wrong with an Apple iPhone or Google’s Nexus One! BUT…if you just want to keep life sim­ple: email, con­tacts and cal­en­dar: stay with your Blackberry.