Comments on: BlackBerry takes a lickin', and dies

My BlackBerry got run over by a car, but restoring its replacement to the desired state proved surprisingly easy.

[amaechi]

Actually, the iPhone will do the exact same thing. Pop your new iPhone into the dock, sync to iTunes--restore your old profile. That's everything; texts, email, accounts, settings, last calls, voice mail settings etc. I believe the only thing you lose are voice mails stored in visual voice mail box. And I'm not even sure of that.

I speak from experience. When I upgraded my iPhone i went through the above process; worked like a charm.

[cah197]

iTunes makes regular backups of the iphone, as I discovered when I had a replacement handset - I didn't notice any difference once the new phone had recovered the backup.

In future maybe the author could take the time to qualify any statements - especially as the article appears to be a blatant Blackberry plug.

[thefact]

To cah197 and amaechi.

I can see neither of you have a clue when it comes to BlackBerry.

The author activated his device Over The Air. This means that he didnt need to install software on his computer and tether his device and manually load a backup. With BlackBerry, the BES server maintains a record of user customisation amoungst other things.

Imagine you were out of town or overseas and you needed a new iPhone. Unless you are lugging your laptop around with you as well then you are not going to be able to reload this backup. All the BlackBerry user would need to do is contact their IT department and ask for a new Enterprise Activation password. This is typed into the new handset and thats it.

This is just one of the reasons that from a TCO perspective the BlackBerry solution is by far a better solution.

[cah197]

That's great.

I'm sure that's all fine if you just want to update some contacts info, but I can't see anyone doing that with 8GB of media files.