BlackBerry vs Google Android vs Apple IOS

saa044 said:
I still have my wildfire with a custom rom on it. Andoid Os 2.3 (xda-developers) and it runs super fast. on a side note, I decided to get the R50 a month contract from mtn for my daughter, but I took the htc chacha phone for myself, its a very fast and responsive phone for the price compared to the sub R100 + packages you get for BB. I would even go as far to say its as fast or faster than a BB9900. I dont know, R50 a month for a Android 2.3 device vs a R429 a month for a BB9900, its a huge difference in price, and for the extra money you can throw a nice data bundle on that chacha.
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Just install a game like Asphalt on your Wildfire and see what I mean. Oh wait you cant, same with millions of other applications on the market. Face it, its a crap phone esp if you compare it to the old High end phones like say a HTC Desire.

Again its a pity SA dont keep old High end phones around and drop the price so that they fall on the same price level as the cheap crap, like the States.
 
Nerfherder said:
I think you are confused.

A lot of BB's are slow and crap... not the 9900
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Yeah I did not even bother to look at the hardware specs of the BB9900, I suppose my old 8520 did to much damage to me. :P But yeah I think I amm to much of a Android fan boy to give + points to a BB device because of my experience with the 8520.
 
Elimentals said:
Just install a game like Asphalt on your Wildfire and see what I mean. Oh wait you cant, same with millions of other applications on the market. Face it, its a crap phone esp if you compare it to the old High end phones like say a HTC Desire.

Again its a pity SA dont keep old High end phones around and drop the price so that they fall on the same price level as the cheap crap, like the States.
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Erm I actually used my wildfire as a Phone and not a Psp. Thats why ive got a pc and a xbox 360. And what other apps dont work on it, firefox? Because everything I threw at it did work, or are you trying to make the wildfire play HD games? I think you got this wildfire and expected it to work the same and do the same things as a Htc desire or Samsung Galaxy S.
 
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Only reason Blackberry market is so large is because of the "unlimited data". Spoke to a friend yesterday and he mentioned he won't move from blackberry because for R69pm he can download unlimited series and movies. He's not even computer literate but some how he's downloading media content over the BIS, so if he can do it how many others aren't doing it. Hence why many still choosing Blackberry.
 
saa044 said:
Erm I actually used my wildfire as a Phone and not a Psp. Thats why ive got a pc and a xbox 360. And what other apps dont work on it, firefox? Because everything I threw at it did work, or are you trying to make the wildfire play HD games? I think you got this wildfire and expected it to work the same and do the same things as a Htc desire or Samsung Galaxy S.
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I dont have one anymore to confirm and note I was using stock OS which also may have added to the limitations. I do recall that there where plenty of applications that either did not install or did not work properly on the Wildfire.

It was not only games, I just used a game as an example. Anyway we going way off topic as you still did not address the other part of would you have gone for a Wildfire if a HTC Desire was available at the same price and the same contract?
 
Elimentals said:
I dont have one anymore to confirm and note I was using stock OS which also may have added to the limitations. I do recall that there where plenty of applications that either did not install or did not work properly on the Wildfire.

It was not only games, I just used a game as an example. Anyway we going way off topic as you still did not address the other part of would you have gone for a Wildfire if a HTC Desire was available at the same price and the same contract?
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Yeah Wildfire on stock is horrible, I suppose rooting it and throwing a less bloated rom on it does make the worlds difference. Obviously the Desire, much better phone. At that time I was looking for the best handheld at R135pm without paying in.
 
I got my wife the 4S for Christmas and I really like it so much that I think I will be moving from android(HTC Desire HD) later this year to an Iphone.iTunes took a bit of getting used to and I hope the screen is a little bigger in the next release.
 
onerb said:
I have a Zenithink ZT-280 Cortex A9 running Ice Cream Sandwich - or Android 4.0.3 and I must say that it is one awesome operating system. I cannot see Apple or RIM competing with it in 2012.

They used the best of Honeycomb and Gingerbread to create it and it rocks.

Too bad I cannot hold onto it though.
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A9? From ARM Holdings? The one Apple co-created? Enjoy :-)
 
Just had a thought(might be a crap one but anyway). If people are staying with BB because of cost(data), then wouldn't it make sense that the BB users won't upgrade as often as IPhone users(for instance) as this would be an unnecessary expense if free internet and BBM is all that is needed. That would mean that BB sales would eventually drop?
 
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Actually an amazing stat if you think that Android has a number of hardware vendors (HTC, Samsung, Sony, Motorola, etc) and yet it just about edges out the Apple offering (with supply appearing to be one of the constraining factors).
 
koeksGHT said:
I really don't care about smart phones anymore until data prices come down! Or at least some decent packages like R100 for 3GBpm or something similar and sustainable.

Moving away from blackberry for me would mean my phone bill would almost double or triple even though bis is getting to a point where dial up is better..
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I ended up disabling data on my phone and leave WiFi on permanently. I opened Skype and Gtalk for 15min and ended up paying R15 for data usage.
 
AfricanTech said:
Actually an amazing stat if you think that Android has a number of hardware vendors (HTC, Samsung, Sony, Motorola, etc) and yet it just about edges out the Apple offering (with supply appearing to be one of the constraining factors).
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Who is at fault for the lack of supply?Been reading a number of forums with huge waiting lists for the 4s.
 
Totally misleading article...

If Apple made 12 models of the iPhone, going all the way down in price to R 599.....and if you could buy them at every corner store....then we would have a more representative consensus.

Alternatively - take the most expensive Blackberry and the most expensive Android phone (should be close to the iPhone price), and then compare sales of only those two phones to the iPhone. The results would still be skewed in favor of the other two, because the iPhone is so much more difficult to source. But it will make a more interesting comparison.
 
surfs-up said:
Totally misleading article...

If Apple made 12 models of the iPhone, going all the way down in price to R 599.....and if you could buy them at every corner store....then we would have a more representative consensus.

Alternatively - take the most expensive Blackberry and the most expensive Android phone (should be close to the iPhone price), and then compare sales of only those two phones to the iPhone. The results would still be skewed in favor of the other two, because the iPhone is so much more difficult to source. But it will make a more interesting comparison.
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Apple could make 12 models but they don't they only currently produce 3 (yes the 3GS is still in production)
 
JStrike said:
Snarkyness isn't all that cool when you're wrong...
ARM Holdings, was founded in 1990 as a join venture between Apple and Acorn
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Sorry. Your terrible use of the english language indicated that you were talking about the A9 core, rather than ARM themselves.
 
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