Rysavy - BlackBerry is the most bandwidth efficient smartphone

[jes]

Rysavy - BlackBerry is the most bandwidth efficient smartphone


According to a Rysavy report BlackBerry devices are the most bandwidth efficient smartphones available

[Nookie]

In other news; conclusive studies have finally proved that the sky is indeed blue.

[e.cachucho]

and in other news Blackberry serves up terrible website that can only be called a cousin of the original website (typographically). Also its hardly the full-res version of the site as it would be on an iPhone or android phone.
Sure the email might be more efficient, wow 6% huh, my email must make up less than 1% of the bandwidth I use on my phone.

[Antonf]

Late news break: The sun will rise in the east until further notice.

[AntiThesis]

and in other news Blackberry serves up terrible website that can only be called a cousin of the original website (typographically). Also its hardly the full-res version of the site as it would be on an iPhone or android phone.
Sure the email might be more efficient, wow 6% huh, my email must make up less than 1% of the bandwidth I use on my phone.

Sorry what? What's wrong with the way the websites look? The browser is crappy interface wise, I'll certainly grant that.

[Lobesy]

What, no Android devices for comparison?

[Jan]

What, no Android devices for comparison?

There were in the browser tests, but Android doesn't really have Direct Push email.

[Shred]

South African consumers have never experienced uncapped mobile broadband

Huh? As far as I know every single BlackBerry in RSA has an uncapped data plan. I pay a flat rate of R59 per month for email, attachments, IM, browsing, data applications, etc.

[antowan]

I just cannot bite into the Blackberry... I tried. Best phone I have owned is the HTC S740. I am looking into touch options but await phones with more kick...

[system32]

Android does indeed have push e-mail.
Gmail is push based, and so is Exchange.

The reason BB uses less bandwidth is because it only does a basic job of rendering e-mail and web.

Android is way ahead in rendering.

[Pyro]

I agree that compressing the data-streams would make sense, and should actually be a trivial excercise for GMail on Android.

Opera Mini also gives you the <option> of having compressed websites.

But these two activities would hardly qualify as the extreme bandwidth users.

A single flash-based game on facebook could easily outpace most people's daily email use.

Same goes for a single YouTube clip.

The large emails would be for attachments, and they can be compressed independently.

[francoislr]

The study excluded as mentioned the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile factor, because just Opera's existence renders this complete exercise completely pointless. I am not a BB fan, but I still recommend it to business oriented users, and people who want to browse as much as they want to on a tiny little screen like I used to do 5 years back. Grown out of it. Just do the necessary mobile browsing these days.

[Jan]

Android does indeed have push e-mail. Gmail is push based, and so is Exchange.

That's fair enough. I don't really use either of those frequently on mine... My main email account is POP-based. BB has a way to turn even that into a push service.

[JK8]

Hahahahahahaha best phone HTC S740
Funny joke.

[j-j]

The blacberry BIS uncapped service is really good value for money. Despite all that is said above, the higher model devices actually do a decent job of rendering web pages, and provide decent functionality for browsing, twitter, linkedin, facebook, kindle, etc etc.

Take a look here : http://j-j.co.za/?p=226 to see some of my stats I have been collecting on the on-device data useage. Estimated to be +- 300 Meg per month.

I would encourage blackberry users to collect their useage stats and share the results in the comments on my site above. I would like to do a bit more detailed analysis and the more data collected the better. (See how I did it in the article above, contact me if you want more details)