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Apple iPhone vs BlackBerry Bold

May 22, 2008    (Click to Rate!) Loading ... Loading ...

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A detailed, mostly physical comparison between the iPhone and the BlackBerry Bold. If you saw the Bold and were curious how thick, wide, tall, short, heavy it was, this is the article to read.

The gist of it is that the BlackBerry Bold is a bit thicker, has almost exactly the same surface form factor and the “scrunched” screen makes it a bit lack-luster for media playback unlike the iPhone that lives for it.

Here’s some deets for you:

Spec iPhone BlackBerry Bold
Size 4.5? x 2.4? x .46? 4.48? x 2.6? x .55?
Weight 4.8oz 4.69oz
Memory
(Ignoring OS considerations)
up to 16gig storage 1gig storage + Expansion
Battery Life 8 Hour talk time 5 hour talk time
Network Supprt Quad-band EDGE Quad-band HSDPA/EDGE
Other Comm WiFi, Bluetooth, USB via Dock Connector WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, USB via mini-USB
Display 480×320 touchscreen 480×320 non-touchscreen
Media Support Auido: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV; Video: .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats Audio: .3gp, MP3, WMA9 (.wma/.asf), WMA9 Pro/WMA 10, MIDI, AMR-NB, Professional AAC/AAC+/eAAC+; Video: DivX 4, Div X 5 & 6 are partially supported, XviD is partially supported, H.263, H.264 and WMV3, syncs with iTunes but likely not as well as iPhone
Camera 2 megapixel 2 megapixel with flash
UI Touchscreen, Apple MoJo non-touchscreen, trackball + BB Menu confusion
Web Mobile Safari Don’t look directly at the screen
Email iPhone Mail client needs lots of taps BlackBerry == email power
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