Comments on: Verizon’s BlackBerry Storm2 Competitive Comparison chart leaks out

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:39:58 +0000

The iPhone is coming to Verizon soon, so don’t worry!!!

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:03:03 +0000

You don’t want to pay an extra $15/mo for vcast? That’s impossible.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:01:45 +0000

The iPhone 3G and 3GS have aGPS. The chart is wrong.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:10:19 +0000

Nice Article.. But I like my Sprint.. I have got it. Because i find it on hot deal. Sexiest of merchandise.. http://www.justcompareit.com/s~q-blackberry-sprint~b-11580100~c-Cell-Phones.aspx?ag=3

By: skj

skj — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:58:39 +0000

Assisted GPS will be much faster in giving you the first position than standalone. Its not just using cell triangulation or skyhook, the network gives the cell phone its rough location, approximate time, which satellites are visible and so on. Assisted will also give you a position in a very challenging environment like indoors or urban canyon, think the E911 situation..

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:57:05 +0000

Nice that they wouldn’t put one of the important features the price. Plus why would blackberry let them put it against its own product the Bold?

By: weatherman

weatherman — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:25:17 +0000

But can you get Verizon V-CAST Music with Rhapsody on the iPhone? I thought not!!

By: ruel24

ruel24 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:14:39 +0000

VCast? That’s a feature I want? Yeah right! It’s exactly that content adding crap from Verizon that I don’t like about their products. I have their service, but phone only, because their content is utter crap.

I can’t go iPhone because AT&T sucks, and I can’t have iPhone because Verizon’s service is great, but they’re just idiots that try too hard to be dominant and own everything to do with cell phones.

By: Aaron P.

Aaron P. — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:00:27 +0000

There are quite a few glaring errors in that chart:

-the Palm Pre has no removable storage
-the iPhone does indeed have assisted GPS (or A-GPS)
-the iPhone also does have OTA music downloads

Not to mention the odd fact that they are comparing the iPhone 3G and not the 3Gs.

By: swissfreek

swissfreek — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:57:27 +0000

Also, I’m curious to know what the difference is between “Assisted & Standalone” GPS vs. plain ol’ “Standalone”. I’ve always thought of “assisted” GPS as one that uses cell triangulation or Skyhook to give itself a rough location, thereby allowing it to get a position lock that much faster. Funny, the iPhone has that, too.

But I guess if they didn’t fudge the chart a little bit, all of these phones would come out looking just about exactly the same, with the final decision coming down to personal preference of network and UI. Oh, wait, that’s *exactly* what it boils down to…

By: swissfreek

swissfreek — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:54:47 +0000

Also funny that they show the iPhone as being capable of OTA music download via “WiFi only”. Um, yeah, back in 2007…

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:21:27 +0000

I see a list of reasons that I don’t really care about. There are a few nice things, but it’s a pretty meh list.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:13:01 +0000

funny how they leave out the fact that the pre’s camera also has a flash, although they did give it “removable memory” – wish my pre had that :(