I've been a BlackBerry user for years - the 8700, 8800, 8310, 9000 and 9700... and I used to make fun of the iPhone fan boys... but now I am one! Seriously, my daughter and son-in-law switched from BB to iPhone last year... and after seeing their phones in day-to-day use, coupled with my fondness for the iPod Touch, I decided to make the jump to the iPhone4. I was lucky enough to get mine reserved for pickup yesterday, and have been loving it since.
The browser situation on the BlackBerry was horrid... and I love the browser experience on my iPhone 4.
I transferred all of my calendar and contact information from Outlook (still haven't made the switch from Windows PC to Mac) without any problems... and am now good to go. I have been spending money and time in the App Store trying to find iPhone equivalents for some of my favorite BB apps.
I thought the lack of a keyboard would be a major issue, but so far, it's less of a problem that I expected. The biggest issue is when I grab my old 9700 (which is now my wife's primary phone) to do something, I am swiping my finger across the screen and getting no results!
The only real issues that I have are:
- Battery life... after only 7 hours today, I am at about 53% battery... this will never make it all day. That was one thing that I could count on with all of my BlackBerry phones... after all, what good is a really cool phone if the battery is dead?
- As someone else has already said, the notification system is far inferior to the BlackBerry. I use my phone as a work pager, and there is no way to set a notification tone for text messages for a single sender - it's all or nothing... I need an annoying and loud tone for the pager, especially at night, so I don't miss a page... but then I get the same loud, annoying tone when my wife or one of the kids texts me...
In many ways, Apple is so far ahead of the game... and in others, they are sorely lacking.