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Iphone Vs. Blackberry: Consumers Speak Out

In ChangeWave’s recent Smart Phone report, the results showed a rapidly evolving two-horse race between Investigate In Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry and the Apple (AAPL) iPhone – with second tier companies like Palm (PALM) and a host of others being shoved to the sidelines.

To stay on-up, this report takes a closer look at the features users like and despise most about their BlackBerrys and iPhones as part of a Development 2008 assessment of 864 smart phone owners.

The previous report showed brilliant consumer satisfaction levels for the two top rated smart phone frontrunners – with Apple sporting a 79% Very Satisfied rating for its iPhone models and RIM grabbing a highly respectable 54% rating for the BlackBerry. But what is it about these two brands that have consumers so very satisfied?

RIM BlackBerry

We first questioned RIM BlackBerry owners. By an overwhelming margin, the feature they liked most is the BlackBerry’s extraordinary access to email (56%).

No other feature comes even close in terms of popularity. As respondent MBR29407 clarifies, “The email integration of the BlackBerry 8800 is probably its single best feature, but I am constantly amazed at the quality of the phone itself.” NEW06507 adds “I like the seamless way my BlackBerry works with corporate email, and the way you can call a number from within an email by highlighting it.”

BlackBerry owners also reported a few key dislikes, number one being the speed and quality of its Internet browsing experience (13%). A second major dislike was the size of the keypad (11%), with owners complaining that the keys are too small and cause too many typing errors. “The overlaid keyboard (two letters per key) and TrueType feature make my BlackBerry slow to type messages without errors,” reported respondent PET91787.

The Apple iPhone

By far the most lauded feature of the iPhone amongst owners is its seamless integration of a Phone, iPod and Internet browser (36%). As respondent DSL06271 puts it, “The feature I use most is the iPod, but it’s the integrated whole that makes it so much fun to use.”

Respondent BOB04545 adds, “I like the iPhone. It is revolutionary. I like being able to jump on the Internet, send email, get maps, weather forecasts, instant message, and make phone calls.”

The second most ordinary feature is the iPhone’s touch screen boundary, followed by its ease of use.

In terms of dislikes, there is no doubt about what iPhone owners despise most. It’s the speed of the AT&T EDGE network. No surprise then that the number two criticism is the requirement to Use AT&T.

Users also articulated particular unhappiness with the iPhone’s lack of copy & paste functionality.

Mirror Mirror On the Wall

So now that we’ve briefly reviewed the prove, which smart phone is the fairest of them all?

The answer is clear – both Apple and RIM dominate the U.S. smart phone industry and are in the process of overwhelming the struggle. Each has a super-loyal cadre of users that fervently support their phone brand – and each has extraordinary room to grow.

Today there are over a billion cell phones in the world, and our surveys have picked up a seismic shift occurring amongst U.S. consumers towards the high end smart phone market. In simplest terms, that’s where the momentum lies.

And as consumers gravitate towards quality multidimensional cell phones – i.e., smart phones – our investigate shows both Apple and Investigate In Motion are the huge winners. In other words, just as the Apple iPhone has captured the hearts and minds of its user base, so has the RIM BlackBerry.

RIM BlackBerry: While the Apple iPhone boasts some of the highest satisfaction rates we’ve ever seen in a assessment, the bottom line for RIM owners continues to be, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Respondent PAN18809 demonstrates RIM’s extraordinary hold over business users when he writes, “My BlackBerry enables one simple certainty – work is a touch I do, not wherever I go.”

RIM’s enormous strength in our business user surveys (73% market penetration) strongly suggests they’ll maintain momentum in their core market going forward.

Apple iPhone: For all its momentum, there are still some core issues iPhone owners want to have resolved – and first amongst them is 3G capability. According to the assessment, that’s the number one feature iPhone owners want integrated into the next generation of the iPhone (19%) – even more so than third-party software (18%), GPS functionality (15%) or E-mail integration (10%).

The same holds right amongst respondents who say they are interested in but haven’t yet bought an iPhone. One-in-four say they are holding out to wait for the next generation iPhone (14%) or for 3G network compatibility (11%).

But the bottom line in this horse race is Apple and Investigate In Motion are both giant winners, while the rest of the smart phone manufacturers lose.

Cell phones: A wireless Way to Speak!!!!

A mobile phone or cell phone is an electronic telecommunications piece of equipment. The majority of current cell phones connect to the network using a wireless radio wave transmission technology, although satellite phones are exceptions. These cell phones communicate by means of a cellular network of base stations, which are known as cell sites, which is in turn linked to the conventional telephone network and were first introduced in the early to mid 1980s, the so called 1G generation.

Earlier cell phones operating without a cellular network, the so-called 0G generation, such as Mobile Telephone Service, date back to 1946. In anticipation of the mid to late 1980s, most cell phones were sufficiently huge that they were time and again everlastingly installed in vehicles as car phones. In the midst of the advance of miniaturization, at this time the vast majority of cell phones are handheld.

Features of a cell phone

In addition to the usual voice function of a telephone, a cell phone can hold up many additional services such as SMS for text messaging, packet switching for access to the Internet, and MMS for transferring and receiving photos and video. A number of the world’s largest cell phone manufacturers consist of

• Alcatel

• Audiovox

• Fujitsu

• Kyocera

• LG

• Motorola

• NEC

• Nokia,

• Panasonic (Matsushita Electric)

and a lot more…..

There are in addition specialist communications systems correlated to, but separate from cell phones, such as Professional Mobile Radio. Mobile phones are also distinct from freestyle telephones, which in general operate only within a limited range of a specific base station. Technically, the term cell phone includes such devices as satellite phones and pre-cellular mobile phones such as persons operating via MTS that do not have a cellular network, while the correlated term cell(ular) phone does not. In real fact, the two terms are used nearly interchangeably, with the favored term varying by location.

Technology on which cell phone works

Cell phones and the network they function under vary a lot from provider to provider, and even from nation to nation. On the other hand, all of them communicate through electromagnetic radio waves with a cell site or base station, the antennas of which are by and large mounted on a tower, pole, or building. The cell phones have a low power transceiver so as to transmit voice and data to the nearby cell sites, usually 5 to 8 miles away.

When the cellular phone or data device is turned on, it registers with the mobile telephone chat, or switch, with its only one of its kind identifiers, and will then be alerted by the mobile switch as soon as there is an incoming telephone call. The handset continuously listens for the strongest signal being received from the neighboring base stations. As the user moves in the region of the network, the mobile device will hand off to new cell sites.

Cell sites have comparatively low power (habitually only one or two Watts) radio transmitters, which broadcast their being there and relay communications involving the mobile handsets and the switch. The switch in turn connects the call to a different subscriber of the same wireless service provider or to the broadcast telephone network, which includes the networks of other wireless carriers. The conversation between the handset and the cell site is a stream of digital data that includes digitized audio (except for the first generation analog networks).

The technology or the know-how that achieves this depends on the system that the cell phone operator has adopted. A number of technologies contain AMPS for analog, and TDMA, CDMA, GSM, GPRS, EV-DO, and UMTS for digital communications.