Toronto (ECN) - Blackberry users have started making the switch to iPhone sighting a variety of reasons. iPhone has addressed some of the concerns that have kept traditional business users away with the iPhone 3GS model. With nearly 500mhz processors and 16GB and 32GB models the iPhone 3GS is the steroid-using version of its predecessors. Side by side the iPhone 3GS looks identical to the iPhone 3G.
Most of the upgrades lie within the phones inner workings. A landscape keyboard has been added for all of the main applications along with an internal compass and voice recording. Internet tethering is also available to use the iPhone 3GS as a modem for Mac or PC, although for some reason AT&T won't be offering this feature in the United States.
The iPhone may be winning this battle in the cell phone war by getting a few Blackberry users to switch based on a new features, but convincing a true PDA aficionados to make such a switch may not be so easy to do. The iPhone 3GS is wonderful cell phone that can do a plethora of things, and yet it lacks the ability to manage a schedule as efficiently as the Blackberry's basic Palm OS system. The Blackberry is not the high-end video playing hard drive phone device that you use to workout while checking your heart rate.
Maybe Blackberry loses a few hundred thousand costumers because of the new iPhone 3GS. When Blackberry releases its next "nanny-cam" cell phone model that allows you to "weight" yourself while talking, they'll get those on the fence clients to switch back. Besides, what are a few hundred thousand customers between friends?
Because business and personal users have different phone needs there's plenty of room for both of these mobile models to be around for years to come.
