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BlackBerry Bold vs. the iPhone – Clash of the Who-Gives-a-Craps

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The above video is doing the rounds on the gadget blogs. It’s a side-by-side comparison of the BlackBerry Bold and the iPhone courtesy of the iPhone blog. This should be good, right? A comparison between perhaps the most innovative handset ever and the new brainchild of the Smartphone kings was certainly on my wishlist last Christmas. If you said, “Yes, Kate, I believe this should indeed be good”, prepare yourself for a disappointment. The video blows.

The first problem is that they’re comparing the soon-to-be-obsolete first generation iPhone with a BlackBerry Bold that isn’t even final spec. Another problem - the guy doing the review is nauseating. To say that the Bold resembles the iPhone is silly. The iPhone is one big screen. If a handset uses a completely different OS then how can it resemble the iPhone? It’s not as if Apple invented the concept of a black rectangle.

All the review reveals is what we already knew – the iPhone and the BlackBerry bold are targeted at completely different markets. If you want a touchscreen phone and are interested in multimedia, get an iPhone. If you want a physical keyboard and are interested in multimedia, get a BlackBerry Bold.

Spoiler alert: the BlackBerry Bold wins, but will this be the case in 2 weeks?

Bold move for the new BlackBerry…

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It seems that RIM are not playing nice when it comes to taking Apple on this time around. Distinctly unimpressed with their arch-nemesis taking a healthy slice of the PDA pie with the iPhone, the new Bold (née 9000) is going to take the fight to their opponent’s home turf with “Blackberry Media Sync”. Yup, it lets you hook up with iTunes, allowing playback of your music whilst reading fiscal reports, or whatever it is important folk are always scrolling through on the train. Our guess? It’ll work for about as long as it will take Apple to cook up the next iTunes update. Apple’s love for DRM definitely makes for an end of term report which reads “does not play well with others.” However, it’s one more (much needed) plus point for RIM’s newest smartphone, and the Bold’s powerful internal speaker does provide the salary man with ammunition against the street urchins playing ‘Umbrella’ full blast on public transport.

Source : CNET