I recently made the half switch. I did get rid of my Blackberry Curve entirely. I merely added on an iPhone 3GS. So, now I have both. The ultimate test.
The comparison between the two phones can be summed up with one single feature. The Keyboard.
The keyboard is responsible for every single important difference between the two. It makes it a thousand times easier to type on the Blackberry, while it makes it impossible to type with on the iPhone. It also takes up half of the screen space on the Blackberry, while the iPhone has a big enough screen to be able to truly make use of the touchscreen functionality.
After a few weeks of using the iPhone I have come to a realization. It cannot replace my Blackberry. Typing on the iPhone diminishes my productivity by such an extreme amount that I simply cannot use it for business, texting, Tweeting, Facebooking, emails, Yelp reviews, or any of the other hundreds of drafts I type up each day.
That said, it is an incredible piece of technology that I cannot live without. I use it as an iPod. I use it as my camera. I use it to read Twitter (I still Tweet from my Blackberry). I browse the web with it and search for restaurants on Yelp with it. And, of course, I use many of the brilliant applications for every other minor media need there may be.
So, what to do? I have no idea. I cannot carry around both forever. Yet I now seem locked into both. In time, I suppose I will either have to ditch one or wait until one of these brands come out with a version that combines the two effectively. Until then, my jeans will ride low from the extra weight in my pockets.
