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News September 11, 2009
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Carrying a Blackberry and an iPhone?

Gear Diary Carrying a Blackberry and an iPhone? photo


photo courtesy of CapMac iPhone SIG

So much has already been written about the iPhone versus Blackberry, but what about some peaceful co-existence, or maybe overlapping contentment?

I carry an iPhone for personal use and a Blackberry 8110 (I know I know, but its corporate issue with an EXTREME IT Policy).  What I’m thinking about is figuring out a way to tradeoff using a Blackberry Bold/Javelin for personal as well..  Carrier plans aside, I like both platforms and sometimes its nice to just carry one charger for both personal and business..

Are you carrying both an iPhone and a Blackberry?  What have you found that makes it compelling or completely annoying?

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  • hughker

    I got this adapter from SendStation: http://bit.ly/19OgG6
    It allows me to use my BlackBerry charger to charge the iPhone as well.

    Pretty handy. And its very small.

  • familypittman

    I have an iphone and a work-issued phone (not a BB though, just a simple old school flip phone).

    I definitely hate having to carry around two chargers and having to keep track of two contact lists. I can imagine it gets worse with the BB because you have to manage multiple email accounts too. Yikes!

  • Drew Guttadore

    @Hughker: That sounds great! That’s exactly the kind of harmonious co-existence I’m looking for. Now if we could just get Microsoft Outlook to recognise that we have multiple mobiles we’ll be in business!

    One other thing I’ve done is to forward all calls from one phone to the other especially during the week. This way I can leave the personal one in the briefcase without missing any calls. My carrier charges me to do this, but I don’t get that many personal calls.

  • http://wonderdawg777.blogspot.com/ Kerry Woo

    Drew,
    I carry both the iPhone3GS for personal use and a company issued Blackberry Curve. With our corporate policies, I just feel much better to keep my two sets of applications separate rather than mix and mingle personal email and social networking on a corporate phone. I check on Twitter and Facebook, personal email and text messaging on the iPhone and heavily rely on the Blackberry for push email and client calls.
    It does add street cred to carry two phones :-) , but seriously I like the feature sets of both phones. As for chargers, I pack one of each in my roller bag and luggage.

  • condon1210

    I carry blackberry Tour and have an iPod touch in car to use when I am at Hot Spots (i.e. Star$s)

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