Barron’s Eric J. Savitz Shares His Experience with the iPhone

by Jody Mitoma on September 2, 2008 at 12:57 am

Barron’s Eric J. Savitz shares his experience with the iPhone, and explains why he relies more on his BlackBerry 8700c than his iPhone.

Here’s a snippet of what Eric had to say in regards to the iPhone:

Let me say right up front, the iPhone really is in many ways the best mobile device I’ve ever used. Calling it a phone does it a disservice; it’s more like a pocket Mac. It’s less phone than computer. Indeed, what makes the device so remarkable is its flexibility. You can download hundreds of applications from the iTunes App Store. Throughout the weeks that I have been experimenting with the iPhone, I’ve had to wrest it from the hands of my tech-savvy kids, who downloaded free apps by the dozen, some silly — the iPhone as a flashlight, or the virtual light saber — and some simply delightful. (I particularly liked Midomi, a Web-connected application that can identify songs by simply having you hum them into the phone. Amazing.) Indeed, the iPhone is simply more fun, by a wide margin, than any other phone I’ve come across. And it does myriad things that my aging BlackBerry can’t. It plays songs and videos. It takes pictures. It has built-in GPS navigation. You can access Wi-Fi networks. And you can surf the Web at reasonable speeds.

I nonetheless have to report that I can’t quite bring myself to give up my BlackBerry. Let me tell you why.

For starters, the iPhone simply doesn’t feel quite reliable enough as a corporate e-mail device. It actually took me close to a month to simply set up access on the phone to the Dow Jones Exchange Server. It didn’t help that the company’s IT staffers had little experience with the phone; they knew I had been suffering from some kind of glitch, but had no real idea of what it was. So I defaulted to the extreme option, erasing all the data and starting over.

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