I have the BlackBerry Tour and this phone seems to do anything you can imagine! Calendar, task, email, etc are all configurable on the Tour. The trackball is a little cluegy, but it gets 5 stars from me otherwise. The Sprint Store cleans the trackball every time I go in and it seems to perform a little better.

A friend of mine directed me here to correct some disinformation. Happy to oblige .

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I really don't know why anybody would get the iPhone. ... Granted, I didn't play with the phone long, but it did not impress me.

Um, first of all there is no hard drive in the iPhone, its drive is a flash memory chip soldered on the motherboard. If you want more space, upgrade. And what do you need "space" for anyway if it doesn't have a file system? Only thing you can store on it is apps and media, and really, do you need all 40,000 of your songs available to you at once? Didn't think so. Prove your assertion that the "U.S. version doesn't do nearly as much as the unlocked European versions." The phones are the same. An unlocked European version is the same as an unlocked American version, and unlocking only allows you to use it on another carrier -- assuming that carrier is compatible with the radios inside the phone. The iPhone isn't on Verizon because Verizon turned Apple down when Steve Jobs pitched the device to them in 2003, and also because the chips in the device don't speak the same language as Verizon's (or Sprint's) network.

Don't believe the hype. The Verizon network would be just as shitty as AT&T's is at times if it had to support devices that are capable of actually using the bandwidth it touts. AT&T's problems are wetware (bad executive design and planning), not hardware errors.

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No tethering, The GPS was horrible, Damn phone doesn't even copy and paste!, Sync with Outlook was pitiful, No SprintTV! LOL

All those commercials saying there is an app for that ... well, I didn't even get that far because the iPhone was so annoying.

I'm tethered on the iPhone right now. It aint sanctioned by Ma Bell, but it works. How many times have you tethered your blackberry? Even know how? Really @ GPS, because I've used mine in DC, in NC, in GA, in FL, in New Orleans, all points in between, at 30,000 feet on an airplane's wifi network and even in foreign countries and haven't had any problems with it. Please clarify about its horribleness. The iPhone has had copy and paste capability since 3.0 was released last month. Might want to upgrade. And the iPhone has had robust support for Exchange (that's the technology behind Outlook) from the beginning. It's even more seamless in 3.0 than it was in 2.0 and even then its early support was better than anything you could get from Blackberry or Windows Mobile. It's interesting how people who complain about the iPhone either 1.) have never actually used one, or 2.) didn't use it long enough to be able to form real opinions about it. I suspect you fall into the latter category because your experiences sound like what I'd expect to hear from first blush users who have had the phone for a week and just expect it to be magically delicious. It's technology. Just like with anything else, you have to learn how to use it.

As far as Sprint TV, iTunes video store is your friend. I regularly watch shows and movies on my 52" plasma from my phone. Yep, the phone can display on anything that accepts input. Plug it in, tap a couple buttons, and off you go. What other phone can do that?

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My golfing partner has the iPhone and he swears by it. However, I see him having nothing but problems with the phone. He has to charge the thing every 2-3 hours! I do not know which is the better super phone, but I think I would stay away from the iPhone.

I have never seen an iPhone that needs to charge every two or three hours, and I support them for a living. The iPhone goes all day without needing a charge as well unless you live online and spend a LOT of time either talking on the phone non-stop or surfing the web endlessly. Do that on any other phone and you will have the same power management challenges. The power of the iPhone is the 70,000+ app library available to it. Glad you're happy with whatever capabilities the Katana offers you, but if you want a serious mobile computing platform, the iPhone is where it's at.

And yes, I've owned one since the original shipped two years ago. On the 3GS now and couldn't be happier. Yes I've used a blackberry and I hated it. If you want a detailed technical explanation as to why, happy to oblige on that point as well. Cheers.

Wow! Does Admiral work for Apple? Good knowledge! I heard the iPhone can't do MMS messages, is that true?

I have the Samsung A637 with AT&T and it is a pretty slick phone. It does most of what you guys are comparing but it is not considered a smart phone. LOL. I think it's pretty dang smart!

I have the Samsung Rant with Sprint and it is by far the coolest phone I have ever had. I thought OMG, this phone does everything and holds great conversations.

I read Admiral's post and one thing really, really, really jumped out at me, the iPhone can plug into a real TV! Now that my Rant won't do. I even thought about it ... now this phone would be an 11 out of 10 if it would plug into a TV. I have satellite TV service on the phone so I would love to plug it into a television set and watch my satellite TV on a big screen.

But the Samsung Rant is still a top notch phone even though it is not considered a smart phone. I can check all of my hotmail, gmail, yahoo, aol, POP3, and IMAP accounts all in one spot! The slide to real keyboard is pretty cool too. The Rant is kind of getting old so I wonder what Samsung has done for this year's model?

I have only used the BlackBerry. I had a Pearl and now a Tour. The only drawbacks I have seen so far is battery life and you can't install and run apps on and from your media card.

The battery runs out quickly and when the radio turns off, well, 20 minutes at least of doing nothing but waiting on the battery to get back to 20% so you can enable the radio again.

Installing apps takes up internal memory. It seems as if installing the apps and running them from the media card would be better and leave the phone's memory free.

But it's a great phone with these small drawbacks included.

I have a BlackBerry and it does more than any phone I have ever owned but it has a lot wrong with it that you guys have already mentioned.

- Apps install to the device, not to the media card.
- Once the radio turns off, you can't make calls even if you plug in to a wall socket
- Sound quality for phone calls is horrible. You are forced to get a headset
- The Reconcile Now is a joke for people who don't use BES.
- It lumps all my emails into one inbox, cool, but if you aren't using BES, Reconcile Now is a joke!

Sync with Outlooks works well. Texting is funny at first but works well once you get used to it. BlackBerry Messenger is very cool if you have all your friends and family using BlackBerrys. I could lose my BlackBerry and go back to a regular flip phone without missing the BlackBerry.