faithin9ja:

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1. BB has all the news gathering apps, especially 'social feed' which can link all your feeds and RSS and social networks on one simple app which comes pre installed.
2. BIS is unlimited at N3k and as BB data is compressed so you find it difficult using 1gb - try watching 'youtube ' on an android or iPhone in Nigeria.
3. share information, you can cut and paste from most applications, word, emails, websites, apps and put them into any other app on the phone, ie copy from wikipedia and but it into an ordinary text message

SimonAndal:

For one you type 4x faster on a physical keypad.

ambyzown:

I will advice you to go try out a touchscreen android smartphone with word prediction and word completion before u make such claims.

I think blackberry users in Nigeria need to borrow and use an android phone for a day to really understand what we're talking about. RIM is losing market share daily for a reason. They even had to integrate android into OS 10 so as to allow users run android apps. What does that tell u? Android is better than Blackberry QED.

However, if "pinging" is ur thing, please stay with blackberry.

SimonAndal:

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Just point 2 will knock all other phones out. Unlimited data for only 3k.

Mr Ford:

No comparison but na naija we dey. You can still get a bb.

Android OS is the only mobile OS that has facial recognition unlock. Imagine if your phone or tablet only unlocks when it sees your face.

ambyzown:

That unlimited data you talk about only seem so due to blackberry's data compression technology. But as we all know, when u compress data, you lose quality. Try watching you-tube videos on a playbook hooked to a BIS enabled phone, then watch the same video on an android tablet or ipad. The same thing happens when you view a web page via opera mini as compared to a full web browser.
Bottom line, N3k per month for a 1gb data on an android device is adequate. However, I use the N7,500 6GB plan on my android device. When I get home, I turn on my wireless hotspot on the device and share the internet with my laptop and other devices. At the end of the month I usually still have like 500mb left.

SimonAndal:

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I've got the galaxy nexus (the recently released ics), and trust me, I use it only as a fashion statement. All my day to day activities, emails, calls, browsing, are done with my 9900 bold touch. 
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And speaking of your word prediction touch whatnot, bb's got physical keys, PLUS word prediction and auto-correction.


There are android phones with physical keys.

SimonAndal:

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I've got the galaxy nexus (the recently released ics), and trust me, I use it only as a fashion statement. All my day to day activities, emails, calls, browsing, are done with my 9900 bold touch.
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And speaking of your word prediction touch whatnot, bb's got physical keys, PLUS word prediction and auto-correction.

SimonAndal:

And speaking of compression, I dowloaded the new windows 8 os, and the ubuntu 11.10 os, over 6Gb worth of files with only 600Mb. Beat that.

ambyzown:

I will advice you to go try out a touchscreen android smartphone with word prediction and word completion before u make such claims.

I think blackberry users in Nigeria need to borrow and use an android phone for a day to really understand what we're talking about. RIM is losing market share daily for a reason. They even had to integrate android into OS 10 so as to allow users run android apps. What does that tell u? Android is better than Blackberry QED.

However, if "pinging" is ur thing, please stay with blackberry.

henryskywalker2003:

@SimonAndal, stop telling blatant lies like a kid here. Windows is 3.3gb and ubuntu is roughly 700mb. How does that make 6gb? And besides, bb compresion rates is not that efficient. If you had said you used only 1.5-2gb to do that, then it's quite plausible.

Tinyemeka:

I still haven't seen any argument convincing enough to make me dump my BB for an Android phone. I have a friend who uses an Xperia (isn't that an android fone?)

But she hardly uses it for anything besides making calls and very rare browsing sessions in-between. Why? Because she gets charged for every single online activity.

Another guy was yabbing the BB for having 50% of its face covered by the QWERTY keyboard. I've played with someone's Android severally and yes it has powerful graphics, large keyboard-less touchscreen, e.t.c but what's the price of the phone? Now compare that with a BB of similar price and tell me which BB of 90k plus, still has a keyboard or drab performance?

dmainboss:

This is like comparing apples and oranges. This kind of comparison can only make sense in Naija. The world is moving away from bb. The company is seriously under threat and they could go bankrupt anytime. The best smart phone is still Iphone followed by android before BB and the rest. A BB without pinging is just a nice java phone. BB does have many inconsistencies.

Many of the apps on BB appworld will not even install on all BBs. An app that will install on a bold might not install on a curve or storm. I have many apps from the appworld that wont run on my BB. That being said, in Naija, BB is very useful because more people have it and you can communicate like for free. Android has superb push email. Just set your sync settings. Android has apps for everything and is a superb game machine.

Android is the future. Except RIM will have to come up with some sort of magic. Internet connection will continue to improve in Naija and at a point, you will not need pinging anymore because a good internet connection will give you lots of chat options. Even on my BB, i do more of my chat on facebook and Ymessenger and gtalk, because BBM can be a real trouble when you have like over 300 peeps on. On Android, you can do skype and enjoy a world of free phone calls.

But my advice to you is, because of the Naija factor, you might still need a BB since many of your peeps will have one. But BB is certainly not the future. I knew that RIM would not catch up as soon as I saw the playbook. It was a real joke of a tab. The guy who supervised that project should be sacked.

Leopantro:

to end the discussion, i want you all to preview just one single app on android,watch the video then come back here and talk about the superiority of BB or android. the name of the app it SPD SHELL.just google it.