7: Blackberry has copy-paste, keyboard shortcuts and global search. Just like a computer.

1: iPhone does not have the not have the notification options that a blackberry has. At a glance, just by looking at the light, on a bb you can know if you have any new unread emails since the last time you checked. That could be of less importance but surely very useful. In an iphone i have to exit sleep mode, go in to the mailbox check if there’s new mail (i can’t remember the number on top of the icon every time), if i want to read after the 25th mail i have to load them from the server. If I want to change mailbox i have to go back-back-forward-forward…

2: Blackberry is fast. And I don’t mean just typing (the bold is really a fast machine to type in) but also very fast in reading emails, jumping into menus, apps and functions.

3: BB can separate or unify mailboxes, sms, mms, im messaging. And all of these can be configured separately with different notification types.

4: BB’s push funionality is real and unbeaten till now. It’s free for non enterprise and works with gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail ecc

5: BB’s IM messaging works. Really works seamlessly in the background, with push notification and without draining battery whatsoever.

6: Blackberry can swap batteries.

Having said that, iphone is really great for music, for downloading many useful apps, also games. But from a business perspective and for pure communication between people, business or private, blackberry is really all that one needs and will want.

It’s not a matter of IT managers that don’t know what an iphone is or that they are more traditional or conservative. Really.

Simon

Massive iPhone uptake has already been going on in large corporations since the 3G iPhone came out.

One 50,000+ company that I will not name has a process in place that from an internal page were employees can order an iPhone and corporate calling plan directly from the ATT corporate portal. IT is not involved in this process nor knows how many iPhones are in use. Also many of the employees would be listed as Blackberry users even though most went back to a regular phone and put the Blackberry in a drawer because it was a pain to use.

Corporate IT sources are not the best sources of information about iPhone users in their company. Especially when many non-technical employees are attracted to the iPhone and never would have considered a Blackberry.

Apple is paying the price for neglecting the enterprise for so long. I don’t know if they really want to be in the enterprise market or not. If they do, they aren’t doing a very good job of making that clear.