Comments on: Switchers Diary: Blackberry To iPhone – Day 1 http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/ An Entrepreneur's View Of Technology And Society Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris B Nuts http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-220 Chris B Nuts Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:45:05 +0000 http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-220 dude...get a fuckin grip..who cares about your foolishness? dude…get a fuckin grip..who cares about your foolishness?

]]> By: Chris B Nuts http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-218 Chris B Nuts Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:45:05 +0000 http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-218 dude...get a fuckin grip..who cares about your foolishness? dude…get a fuckin grip..who cares about your foolishness?

]]> By: Chris B Nuts http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-470 Chris B Nuts Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:45:00 +0000 http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-470 dude...get a fuckin grip..who cares about your foolishness? dude…get a fuckin grip..who cares about your foolishness?

]]> By: Mark http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-216 Mark Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:01:12 +0000 http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-216 u can have gmail forward your email to u as a text, this will simulate the push experience. It's a clumsy setup, but it works. u can have gmail forward your email to u as a text, this will simulate the push experience. It’s a clumsy setup, but it works.

]]> By: Patrick http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-215 Patrick Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:36:52 +0000 http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-215 http://www.blackberrytoiphone.com is another great source of Blackberry-to-iPhone switch information. http://www.blackberrytoiphone.com is another great source of Blackberry-to-iPhone switch information.

]]> By: Switchers Diary: Blackberry To iPhone - Week 1 at The Digital Edge Blog http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-214 Switchers Diary: Blackberry To iPhone - Week 1 at The Digital Edge Blog Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:34:47 +0000 http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-214 [...] now been a week since I made the switch off Blackberry and on to my iPhone… My last entry in the “Switchers Diary” came after one day of use, and was really just a look at my [...] [...] now been a week since I made the switch off Blackberry and on to my iPhone… My last entry in the “Switchers Diary” came after one day of use, and was really just a look at my [...]

]]> By: John http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-213 John Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:59:22 +0000 http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-213 Anthony - I will be posting my next update tomorrow. I find the 'pull' email on the iPhone to work fine for me. I can refresh wheneveer I want but get updates every 15 minutes automatically. If something is more urgent than 15 minutes, people can just call me. I absolutely do miss the cut & paste capability. It makes doing anything long form - like blog posts - much more difficult. The keyboard hasn't been an issue for me with email and note taking, but requires a slowdown when typing stuff like passwords or non-standard terms like product names. Overall I'm happy with the switch, but agree that there are some things I miss, and some that I had hoped to get but don't have. I'll cover more in my post tomorrow. Thanks for commenting! Anthony – I will be posting my next update tomorrow. I find the ‘pull’ email on the iPhone to work fine for me. I can refresh wheneveer I want but get updates every 15 minutes automatically. If something is more urgent than 15 minutes, people can just call me. I absolutely do miss the cut & paste capability. It makes doing anything long form – like blog posts – much more difficult. The keyboard hasn’t been an issue for me with email and note taking, but requires a slowdown when typing stuff like passwords or non-standard terms like product names. Overall I’m happy with the switch, but agree that there are some things I miss, and some that I had hoped to get but don’t have. I’ll cover more in my post tomorrow.

Thanks for commenting!

]]> By: Anthony chambers http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-212 Anthony chambers Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:49:16 +0000 http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-212 I made the switch from a blackberry curve to the iPhone and so far I am really starting to miss the push email. I find that my hands get really cramped when typing a lot on the iPhone. My biggest compliant so far has to be the screen. I find myself always having to clean it because of the finger prints. Has this been a problem for you? Do you miss the cut and paste feature at all? I wrote this post using my iphone. Thinking of switching back! I made the switch from a blackberry curve to the iPhone and so far I am really starting to miss the push email. I find that my hands get really cramped when typing a lot on the iPhone. My biggest compliant so far has to be the screen. I find myself always having to clean it because of the finger prints. Has this been a problem for you? Do you miss the cut and paste feature at all?

I wrote this post using my iphone.

Thinking of switching back!

]]> By: John http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-211 John Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:51:57 +0000 http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-211 My position is no doubt different from many. I have my own company, which clearly gives me a lot more latitude over what can happen. I am looking to access our Exchange server via IMAP, and our IT folks are looking into making that happen. I know it isn't a slam dunk - we do take security seriously and will need to do it correctly. It is possible that we will open it up on an internal address, then use the iPhone's VPN capability to connect. In the meantime, I am forwarding my emails to my GMail account to have direct access to them - it's ugly but gets half the job done. At least I can read them... Another option is to connect to Exchange via "Outlook Web Access" over safari. It does work, but you'll need to do a lot of zooming in and out to read anything. Steve Jobs did hint that they will have a solution in this area, but he wasn't very specific. he claimed it's being used by some really big corporate names that 'we'd recognize' - it will be interesting to see what come of it. Outside of research labs and the like, I don't see the iPhone posing a bigger security risk than other mobile solutions currently deployed by most organizations. 'Security Hole' just tends to be the favorite answer you get from IT because it is one of those amorphous 'bad things' that are hard for the average person to argue against. It is unfortunate that many corporate IT departments view their role more as gatekeepers than solution providers, and will only reluctantly adopt anything new. The fact is, most change is driven by the end user community, and C-Level executives that discover some type of new gadget they want to use. It gets dragged along reluctantly. I'm sure if the office took up a collection and bought the CEO an iPhone, the odds of getting it supported would go up pretty significantly. (only <em>partly</em> kidding...) I do understand what a big deal this is. I will post again as soon as I have the details on how we set it up and what my experience with it is like. Thanks for commenting JC... My position is no doubt different from many. I have my own company, which clearly gives me a lot more latitude over what can happen. I am looking to access our Exchange server via IMAP, and our IT folks are looking into making that happen. I know it isn’t a slam dunk – we do take security seriously and will need to do it correctly. It is possible that we will open it up on an internal address, then use the iPhone’s VPN capability to connect.

In the meantime, I am forwarding my emails to my GMail account to have direct access to them – it’s ugly but gets half the job done. At least I can read them…

Another option is to connect to Exchange via “Outlook Web Access” over safari. It does work, but you’ll need to do a lot of zooming in and out to read anything.

Steve Jobs did hint that they will have a solution in this area, but he wasn’t very specific. he claimed it’s being used by some really big corporate names that ‘we’d recognize’ – it will be interesting to see what come of it.

Outside of research labs and the like, I don’t see the iPhone posing a bigger security risk than other mobile solutions currently deployed by most organizations. ‘Security Hole’ just tends to be the favorite answer you get from IT because it is one of those amorphous ‘bad things’ that are hard for the average person to argue against.

It is unfortunate that many corporate IT departments view their role more as gatekeepers than solution providers, and will only reluctantly adopt anything new. The fact is, most change is driven by the end user community, and C-Level executives that discover some type of new gadget they want to use. It gets dragged along reluctantly. I’m sure if the office took up a collection and bought the CEO an iPhone, the odds of getting it supported would go up pretty significantly. (only partly kidding…)

I do understand what a big deal this is.

I will post again as soon as I have the details on how we set it up and what my experience with it is like.

Thanks for commenting JC…

]]> By: JC http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-210 JC Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:38:27 +0000 http://www.thedigitaledgeblog.com/2007/07/03/switchers-diary-blackberry-to-iphone-day-1/#comment-210 How did the iPhone handle your corporate email account? I read an article on www.iphailure.com that said IT departments are shying away from the iPhone cuz of security concerns. How did the iPhone handle your corporate email account? I read an article on http://www.iphailure.com that said IT departments are shying away from the iPhone cuz of security concerns.

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