which smartphone is best for internet marketers?

It sounds like you are thinking of the smartphone as something on which you can actually run your business?

I don't know anyone who does that. Most people I know use their smartphone only when they are out and about and do their serious business work on their laptop.

I have an AT&T 8525, which I bought in 2007. I love it, but rely on it mainly for keeping up with email, reading the news or doing a quick Google search. I cannot imagine checking my shopping cart on it or updating my web site with it. The screen is just way too small for any of that.

Maybe that will help you understand your choices better.

Marcia Yudkin

No, i am not saying i will run my business on it. Obviously , i run my business on desktop PC. But i just want max. amount of things to be online when i will be out.

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My opinion - Windows Mobile is a pain in the ass. What exactly are you looking to do with the phone? For email and stuff, I'd probably go with a Blackberry.

email plus messenger

I use the blackberry storm. Actually I am on it right now. I use 4 alps daily. Todomatrix ideamatrix mindberry and lingo. Those allow me to be very productive with planning and brain storming during otherwise idol times.

Shannon

I use the blackberry storm. Actually I am on it right now. I use 4 alps daily. Todomatrix ideamatrix mindberry and lingo. Those allow me to be very productive with planning and brain storming during otherwise idol times.

Shannon

BlackBerry would be my first choice, iPhone is something I'm not recommended, since its low battery endurance, and if you need some applications from third-party that are not on the list of iPhone store, usually it get block by the phone with the reason possible harmful for your iPhone. Linux smartphone is worth to try too.

Go Blackberry..

I am on HTC now, and while its good and awesome and stuff like that..
I want to jump to the latest BOLD users of Blackberry

I have an iphone 3G. I LOVE it. It's a very convenient piece of equipment to have. Between the internet browser, all my music in one place, youtube, and all the apps I love having one. And while I don't think I'll ever switch away from an iphone anytime in the near future...I do have to say if you want great battery life, reliable calls, hardware and software, durable...look at a blackberry.

I love my phone it has it's faults too

They named a smart phone after a sex toy? (Symbian)

I personally use the iPhone, sure, you can't use more then one application at the same time or maybe you can, if you jailbreak your phone, there's a ton more of features and benefits it has for you and your iPhone that Apple by default simply don't allow by default.

I'm sure that there is an application out there where it would allow one via the iPhone to run more then one application at any given time.

I personally like the iPhone because it does have an application for pretty much any topic imaginable and I can literally manage my online business straight from my iPhone, you gotta love technology!

Hi there...

I'd go for a phone with symbian...
I've tried WM and it's not impressive. Sure you can do a lot of things, but it's buggy...

Symbian (and especially on Nokia Phones) just works.
Personally, I'd go for a N97

Best cell phone I find for business is the Blackberry phones. The other seem to more for entertainment.

I have the BB Curve and have all my main email addresses on it and my IM software's such as AIM, Yahoo and windows live.

Downfall is the web-browser....

I have the Sprint Touch Pro, it has a full key board and the Opera browser. I update my blog and websites all the time

Symbian N97 - where can i see their marketplace for applications? Strangely, nobody is using android platform right now.

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I'm seeing adverts on TV for Palm Pre. It has application store and can have multiple apps open at same time.

I have a relatively inexpensive Nokia E63.

Does what I need - web browsing and email. Dont really see the point of anything more expensive and elaborate unless you really do want to "run" your business from your phone!

I vote for the Iphone 3G. Best phone that i have used for a long time. I used it for email, internet and messaging. I can run my business off it completely and have done when my laptop blew up.

Cheers
Greg

I have an Iphone. I love it for email and some internet. I wouldn't be able to run my business from it unless I was in a real pinch though. But in comparison to all the other phones that compare to the iphone, well, there is no comparing to the iphone!

Well, Shannon's double-posted, misspelled, typo-filled post should be a vote against Blackberry Storm LOL!

I've been using a Treo 680 for 3+ years and really haven't seen a reason to change yet. I had a touchscreen before touchscreens were cool.

Every Big IMer I know has an Iphone.

Wait and go for the Motorola Droid..It seemingly rocks..

Blackberry, I really like it.

I love the iphone. The app store is great to have, and there are some apps that can help you run your business.

I've heard Mike dillard uses it "to shout orders at his employees" lol. That was paraphrased from an e-mail by one of his students. Mike is a great guy with a multi 7 figure business, so Im sure its doing well in his hands.

The Iphone is also good if you ever want to reach into the app market, it can be very profitable. Joel comm did $9000 his first week with a fart app.

Just slightly related to the op, but I ran into this today.

Google maps navigation system on android 2.0 beats iphone apps and just about everything else free or paid, and is not available on iphone.

The links, interesting reading:

washingtonpost.com

Google’s New Mobile App Cuts GPS Nav Companies At The Knees

I also think motorola droid will rock the market, i wont use the term "iphone killer" here lol. In good old days, it was like pc vs. mac, i am sniffing in coming year it will be android vs. iphone.

iPhone. No question about it. It's the only device for forward-thinking entrepreneurs.

I do 99.9% of my phone work from my office landline. If I am not there I don't want to talk business.

However, I speak on the phone to people using iphones constantly...'

I get on the phone, their iphone dropps the call, the first thing I ask is if they are on an iphone and the answer is always yes.

Its not a freak thing either... it happens with iphone user after iphone user and every time I ask them they always respond with frustration admitting that their iphone constantly dropps calls.

This alone has made me decide never to be tied to an iphone contract... or at least until they redesign the antenna or get on a better network and solve the issue.

I have been on important business calls where the person on the other line has to call me back several times because their iphone keeps dropping calls.

30% dropped call rate in NY and read the other comments

Some of these people just need to get a landline.

However, all my business partners use the iphone and there are some significant benefits... mostly because of the amazing applications and web based connectivity. It does help with many types of communication automation and especially with our ability to monitor and stay connected on mission critical projects.

Personally, I'll just stick to my ipod touch and duct tape a tracfone to it. Now there is an iphone that won't drop calls.

Check out http://crackberry.com/ forum for other helpful info on choosing the right phone.

I think now is the time to get by try and avoid long contracts... because 2010 and 2011 are going to be great years for new innovations in the phone and wireless service markets and it'd suck to be tied to a crappy 2 year contract with a company you hated who always dropped your calls...

If a newly engineered iphone comes out on the verizon network in 2010 when the att exclusive ends... then I'll give it another look.

Hey Ankur,

I recently went with the HTC Touch Pro2 and am really loving it. Took a bit of getting used to both the interface and the slideout keyboard but performance is very solid.

Call quality is excellent (verizon) and the quality of the speakerphone damn near rivals having a polycom on the desk...really. I can almost approach roadrunner speeds tethering it to my laptop. Only downside I see with it so far is the battery life is a little on the weak side.

@Josh - Couldn't agree more about it being time to get away from contracts.

Rob

In my opinion, the Android OS is stellar. I have a T-Mobile MyTouch 3G and I love it. I have to admit, the Iphone is ahead of things in terms of time (the app market is more advanced right now), but the openness of Android will make it one of the top platforms in a couple of years.

Blackberries are awesome for corporate email and big business stuff, but the Iphone and Android phones are catching up over time.

My advice: decide on which carrier you want and wait for the android hardware that meets your needs. The Droid from VZW is just about out and it's gonna rock, as do both of T-mobile's current android phones.

I do everything business and personal-related on my MyTouch and it works flawlessly, plus it's got a great app store like the iPhone has, just less restrictive.

Cheers,

BoundlessProsperity

I don't think many people truly understand how powerful the iPhone is.

Here are some examples of things the iPhone can do....

• I can FTP into my server and update a page from my iPhone.
• I can remotely login to my home computer while on vacation and work on something that resides on my desktop.
• I can sync and view documents on my PC, laptop or anything else running DropBox
• I can upload all my PDF's via WiFi and read them at my leisure in their full color glory.
• I can take photos of receipts with Jotnot and upload them to Evernote for flawless receipt management.
• I have flawless GPS directions.
• I can play (and sometimes beat) my wife at Scrabble over WiFi.
• I can process credit cards on the road (perfect for taking client payments at meetings).

If your phone can do all this, please let me know.

Seem alot of people mention the Iphone but i do not think the Iphone is all that good, I prefer my nokia and Lg mobile Phones instead of The Iphone, I have to take on board mind im in the u.k not the u.s so i know Phone services are quite different then here,

I do own a Iphone but i find it annoying to touch my websites and flick up/down using the Iphone, and for social networking sites such as facebook and twitter i do like the freedom of having everyone in my mobile at a touch of a button.

@blue squares.....I have 7 phones that do that, here are the model of the phones
Blackberry,Lg arena km900, nokia n98, samsung hd1080i and a few other mobiles i cannot think of at the moment

andy

I love iPhone through and through .. I cant see me ever changing (Im a Mac guy too) .... just my two cents.

BlackBerry>iPhone

BB is great for business stuff.

Iphone 3GS wins hands down, but make sure you have firmware 3.0.1. Coz I made the mistake of upgrading to 3.1 and then the battery life is so damn pathetic, its not even funny.

But the browser on the iphone beats all the other phones I have used. If email is the only app that you will use the most then go for a blackberry.

I have sybian smartphone Nokia 5800 and my son has iphone. I'd say iphone beats mine for ease of operation, that said the Nokia is ok too!

Bobby

I currently have a Blackberry, and iPhone...

The BlackBerry gets more of my attention than the iPhone does...

Peace

Jay

My blackberry bold enables me to manage several membership site control panels, forums and constant email traffic wherever I am. I cannot recommend it highly enough - it allows me to go where I want and keep my business interests ticking over.

Email wise, blackberry is the one as it can also hold many email accounts, Iphones work wonders but the only thing is battery life! If you can cope with charging your phone every night then Iphone is your choice!

Hello Friends....

Android is apparently better than the iPhone.This was the result from a smartphone Satisfaction survey based on operating system among US consumers.
1, Palm Pre : 86 (out of 100 points)
2. Android : 82
3. iPhone : 81
4. Blackberry : 71
5. Palm Treo : 70
6. Others : 60

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The Apple App Store is a wonder. Blue Squares list gave a taste of the diversity and technical prowess. More whisically, I have on my iPhone

• eight track recorder,
• Five track midi sequencer,
• iChing, Tarot, Lunar Calendar, Mayan Calendar, best-of Bible
• Russian Tutor,
• Collection of classic success books,
• Need for Speed (auto racing and mayhem),
• Flight simulator,
• Geo- and directionally-aware astronomy program (amazing),
• Photo-retoucher rivaling Photoshop,
• Filemaker Mobile,
• Evernote,
• Various go to sleep and wakeup programs,
• Seasons 2,3,4 of The Wire queued up,
• Public transport timetable,
• Mindmappers,
• Pocket guitar, drums, keyboard, flute, didgeridoo, tuner, decibel meter
• Panoramic photo creator...
• GTD to-do system synced with Omnifocus on the Mac

Those are just the apps I use every day. I also have a number of twitter, facebook etc apps that I'd like to use more. One twitter app is 3D. I have 100 other cool business, utility or misc apps that I use occasionally.

With some Motorola S9 headphones its a peerless mp3 and shoutcast player.

I've become an amateur photographer because now I always have a half-decent camera with me.

Oh, and I take phone calls on it if needed and reluctantly text message. I haven't had any dropouts with Vodafone.

But, yes it is annoying not to be able to run more than one app simultaneously. Note, however, that the iPod features can run simultaneously with other apps. I have no doubt that full and effortless simultaneity is on the horizon.

I'm writing an iPhone app and intend to use every technique I've learned on this wonderful forum to market it.

Bottom line, get something (iPod, iPhone) to get access to the wondrous Apple App Store. Whether it should also be your main cell phone is moot.

Internet marketing? The future lies with Android. Dont forget who actually made Android. I am sure within the future there will be more official google apps out there for Android, such as Analytics, PPC, Webmaster, etc. But for now iPhone definitly is the best phone to get if you are in IM.

I use to have the htc Tytn, it was a windows phone but it crashed too much. I have have to HTC google android phone, G1 as it's known in the UK. What an amazing phone! Googlemail, WF works well on it.

I got the HTC Hero today and it rocks. I found navigation easy and it did not lock up once. Easy to access email and browse the web.

Tons of apps....which will have to wait.

I was a blackberry person myself for years and years and swore Id never give it up but some how or another I ended up gettting an iphone also. Over time I switched completely to the iphone.

What I miss about the blackberry is the full keyboard and blackberry messenger. I'm from Canada and it seems like everyone I know has a blackberry so blackberry messenger is an awesome feature that I miss very much. I also miss the ability to run programs in the background.

With my iphone I got use to the keyboard although I do still yell at it sometimes. I recently went on a trip and didn't bring my computer and it made me realize how useful my iphone really was. I could check in on my clients webstats on really quickly just to ensure nothing wacky is going on (wasn't ever planning on making changes to accounts) but was nice to know I could quickly check these things without having to go to an Internet Cafe. The internet browsing beats out blackberry browsing by about a million, in my opinion. Ifound the skype application very useful when I was traveling. I just needed a wifi spot and I could make international calls with excellent quality for free or at low rates.

Before this trip I was still a little reluctant to admit that the iphone was superior (again in my opinion) to the blackberry (especially since I'm Canadian and I love to support things that have Canadian connections) but I find it comes into so much use all of the time. If I was in an industry in which I didn't need to use the Internet sooo much than I would probably go with a blackberry (if you just want to check emails ect and basic browsing) but otherwise I would go for the iphone.

I am also an Adroid user, with the original G1. To be fair I tied blackberry, Iphone, and windows mobile. And Android blows them out of the water hands down. You get incredible synchronization with gmail, calender, and any other business app you have. The andoid market is bad ass, with most of the applications being FREE. And your running an open source Linux based OS, created by Google!

I can honestly see Android taking over the market, because they're not moron's like Apple who sign a contract with the worst service provider of all time (AT&T). Even though Android is spreading to all the phone makers, HTC phones IMO, are by far one of the best phones ever built. So it's a win win.

I use and love the Blackberry Bold.