Rysavy - BlackBerry is the most bandwidth efficient smartphone

In other news; conclusive studies have finally proved that the sky is indeed blue.
 
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.
 
Late news break: The sun will rise in the east until further notice.
 
e.cachucho said:
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.
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Sorry what? What's wrong with the way the websites look? The browser is crappy interface wise, I'll certainly grant that.
 
South African consumers have never experienced uncapped mobile broadband
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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.
 
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...
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
system32 said:
Android does indeed have push e-mail. Gmail is push based, and so is Exchange.
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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.
 
Hahahahahahaha best phone HTC S740 :p
Funny joke.
 
Blackberry useage stats

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)
 
@ e.cachucho

If we all had uncapped iphone/android data plans we might make different device choices, however given the high data plan costs, the Blackberry is a steal. Yes, like you my email probably takes 1% or less of the bandwidth I use on the phone, however, I am still only paying the R60 odd for that data. Give the cost/benefit ratio, there is no comparison.
 
quite pissed they did not do a good job of looking at android!

if the iphone is there, they should also show android, and for that matter also nokia.

I use about 30 megs of data over a 2 month period on my android device, with basic google searches, gmail, gtalk, calendar syncs, contact syncs etc etc...

My total bandwidth costs are about R15 a month for light moderate internet use and moderate heavy IM usage.
 
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