BlackBerry Storm 2 9550 vs iPhone 3G
If you’re not a fan of RIM’s products but at the same time you’re wondering what phone is worth to buy, than I hope you will find this useful. Looking on eBay at the prices of these phones, I see that they are pretty much the same so the only thing that’s left to look at is the differences between them.
I have to say that in most reviews you look on the internet, people are saying that the iPhone 3G doesn’t fit so well in your hand, probably because it has a 3.5” display while the BlackBerry Storm2 has a 3.25” display and it feels a lot better because of its shape. Well, it might not fit so well in your hand but it weights only 133 grams while the BlackBerry Storm2 weights 160 grams which makes quite a big difference between them.
Even that the BlackBerry Storm2 has a smaller display, it has 360×480 pixels while the iPhone 3G has 320×480 pixels so here is another plus for the BlackBerry Storm2.
You probably already know that the BlackBerry Storm2 9550 has 2GB of internal memory while the iPhone 3G has 8GB or 16GB of internal memory but the BlackBerry Storm2 9550 also comes with a microSD slot while the iPhone 3G doesn’t have such a thing.
I want to say that both phones have Wi-Fi and 3G connections but comparing the speed they load web pages, the iPhone 3G wins. When you browse a web page with the BlackBerry Storm2 9550, it gets lag.
If you usually use your phone for taking photos, the iPhone 3G is not what you want at all having a 2MP camera with 1600×1200 pixels while the BlackBerry Storm2 9550 comes with a 3.15MP camera and with 2048×1536 pixels. The BlackBerry Storm2 9550 also got autofocus and a LED flash so it takes much better photos.
You should also know that the BlackBerry Storm2 9550’s battery will drain out after 270 hours in stand-by or 5 hours and 30 minutes in talk time while the iPhone 3G’s battery drains out in stand-by mode after 300 hours and in talk time, after 10 hours so here is a big plus for the iPhone 3G.
After seeing all of these things, I’d say that I would buy the iPhone 3G because I just got used to the iPhone OS but this is not enough for me. For a little more money, I could buy the iPhone 3GS which is a better choice but it depends what things you want to do with such a smartphone. I must also mention that the iPhone 3G will not be built anymore because Apple will launch the iPhone 4 on 24th this month.
June 25th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
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