Blackberry 9000: no iPhone Killer, but cool anyway

Written on May 9, 2008 – 4:04 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

Since the iPhone was announced Blackberry users suddenly felt less special. Weren’t THEY the ones that were always connected, always on and always in sync? Flashing a Blackberry Curve or Pearl just didn’t make an impression anymore. But there was just no way we could switch from our trusted Blackberrys and get used to that innovative onscreen keyboard that the iPhone made such headlines with. As a RIM executive said

“I could just never get the feel for it because, well, there is nothing to feel.”

Fortunately you can now get a preview of Research in Motions iPhone killer. Will it kill the iPhone? Definitely not. But it will get us Blackberry users back some self esteem:

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By Doron Vermaat on May 10, 2008

I love my bb and will never ever switch to an ipod that can be used for email as well.thenextweb.org looks terrible in my bb browser. Time for a mobile version of thenextweb.org?

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By hekim group on May 10, 2008

good thank you very much.

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By John on Aug 24, 2008

Yep, no iphone killer here for sure. I would never ever switch back to such a complicated Blackberry or MS 6.x . iphone is by far the best cell phone, pda, smartphone ever designed with amazing web browser and functionality.
Their is always room for improvement and specially in all 3G type phones. All of them are having issues right now but it will all be solved soon. Blackberry and iphone rule! But I prefer iPhone..
I love it

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