iPhone Review from CrackBerry Kevin -- Smartphone Round Robin
Apple's third iPhone meets CrackBerry Kevin's third iPhone review, exclusively in the 2009 Smartphone Round Robin. Year one he called it the iSmudge. Then they got the Storm. Year two he called it the Ah *** phone. Then they got the Storm. (Joking. Not.) What's he calling the iPhone and iPhone users this year?
Yeah, it ain't pretty. But he's also calling the iPhone the yin to his yang, the night to his day, the left pocket to his right pocketed BlackBerry, the... you get the idea. (We got it too.)
All credit for what little progress he's made goes to our outstanding TiPb forum members, who learned him as much as any CrackBerry addict-in-chief can really be learned.
If you want to win an iPhone 3GS of your very own, you can still enter once a day on his thread, or any of the previous Round Robin threads in our forum. And for all the other videos, reviews, and contest threads (there are 6 smartphones up for grabs after all!) keep your browsers locked on smartphoneroundrobin.com!)
Now go read Kev's review, then come back here and tell us whether you agree or disagree, and why!
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so do you enter by posting here or in some thread in the forums?
@dagwolf: the forum thread: http://forum.theiphoneblog.com/showthread.php?p=1545034#post1545034
Jeeze, his reviews suck so bad he needs a boob shot to get people to pay attention?
All boils down to, Yeah, he'd really like to have a iPhone but would have to admit he has been wrong about physical keyboards all this time.
Really, when he gets down to it, its the keyboard.
I think it's more than the keyboard, Icebike. Some other things about the iPhone are irksome to folks used to doing things differently, like the multitasking and the email management and the one-handed use and the profile (in holster/out of holster, etc.) settings and that little LED notification light.
• keyboard:
the iPhone's soft keyboard is sooo much better than any cramped stiff smartphone qwerty I've ever experienced
• multitasking:
there is limited multitasking on the iPhone, and the 3GS switches pretty seamlessly between nonnative apps that aren't multitasking
• email management:
could definitely use some improvements here, also with the calendar while they're at it
• one-handed use:
takes some getting used to, but I do all kinds of stuff one-handed on my iPhone, including typing!
• profile settings:
these can be had for those willing to jailbreak, but some of us are too timid/prudent/lazy/unaware
• LED notification light:
meh
In the end, I think CB Kevin has imprinted on the BlackBerry like a baby duckling imprints on the first thing it sees and calls it "Mommy", in the sense that sure he can be exposed to as many different phones as many times as he or Rene or anybody else might like but he'll never lose that imprint deep in the back recesses of his animal mind. :) He did manage a pretty thorough review though, and even he may have his socks blown off by what Apple reveals with the 4.0 OS release!
How annoyingly awful are these round robin videos.
I still don't get the "notification light", every BB I've ever seen has it blinking, constantly. I would find that incredibly annoying... Does it change colour or something if you get a text message?
And the multitasking, it takes litterally 1 touch and 3 seconds to swith apps on my 3G... Sure 1 second would be ideal, but the lack of scrolling and finding the app you want on a BB cannot be much faster, if at all...