Everybody is writing about iPad this week, but I guess I want to be special and write about iPhone (again) and my 100x time switching from/to Blackerry to/from iPhone. It is definitely a love-hate relationship between me and these devices. None of them is good enough to be 100% my device, and what it feels that I am getting tired of lousiness of each of them time to time. 
This time I am switching from Blackberry Bold 9700 (which was also known as Bold2) to my lovely wife's (http://twitter.com/bazinia hi!) iPhone 3GS. I don't think I should write again that Blackberries quality is less break-prone than iPhone's (total count of my returns/exchanges of Blackberries I had is close to 10. Compare this to iPhone which I never had to repair/exchange since using 1G (the very first one), so I'll just concentrate on what I will and will NOT miss: 

I will miss: 

1. Keyboard. Just forcing myself into virtual one, and I know that real keyboard is much better. 
2. Battery life. Crap, they need to sell extra wall adapter for iPhone and all other possible adapters to plug anywhere where you are. Because iPhone sucks with battery big time. 
3. LID which indicates new email/messages/whatever. Really helpful. I can just take a look at my device to know if there is something "inside". 
4. Customizable profiles and ringtones for everything. Never thought I will use them, but man, they are so convenient. 
5. Tethering. It's very easy on Blackberry, with Mac, over Bluetooth, which makes life easier and more portable. Loved it. iPhone? Tethe... what? Jailbreak only? Or cought out $60 on top we are paying already to greedy AT&T? Yeah... NO. 
6. Multitasking. Didn't use it as much as I thought, that's why it's the last item on the list, but still. 

I guess that's it. Now, the list of what I WILL NOT miss: 

1. Lack of Apps. I didn't think they are so useful but I am sporting like 20 apps (on iPhone, not games) now which actually *are* useful. 
2. Plasticish feel. It's the build quality of Blackberries. It's poor comparing to iPhone. Like really poor. 
3. Stupid BIS. What the fuck, really? No, RIM, really? At least 3 major problems in Northern America within 6 months? And that's reliable messaging device then? 
4. Browser. I wouldn't call it so. It's a laught on this word. It's a piece of crap which cannot be called browser. Multitasking to launch two browsing windows? No, impossible. And no need to tell me that I had to checkout Opera or Bolt, etc. Been there, done that. No. 
5. No two-way IMAP support. So, I've joined Blackberry world in 2009 and now it's 2010, and rumors about coming soon support are floating around I guess since 2005. Not happening. I guess it's a very terribly hard protocol to use. Or may be "corporate" business people do not care. On the other hand RIM has no problems developing it's Twitter client (like 5-10 exising ones are not good enough!) - so that means that they want to target business people who don't give a fuck about email support but all into tweeting. Hmmm... Nice breed. 
6. GPS. I blamed house where I live, places where I go, but for some reason GPS on Blackberry takes minute (literally, not seconds, but 4-6 minutes) to locate you properly. Certainly the same way it cannot add geo-location to your photos etc.). iPhone does almost instantly. WTFx2?
7. Russian. Blackberry Bold 9000 had Russian as Input Method, but since then -- 9700, 8900 -- none had. Sucks. 
8. Storage. Exchangable memory card is great, but it's too small. iPhone has 16Gb (the smallest one), but 16Gb in memory card? Way too expensive. :-(

I didn't add a lot of stuff here. Like I was complaining before that Blackberry is more like a phone, but unfortunatelly they are becoming less and less, closer to iPhones, when dialing a number is one of the features, but not major product offering. Lags, etc. - they have it all. And bunch of other stuff. It all matches this or that way, so it does not matter. 

After all, sum it up an you'll see that phones are equal. One is equipped with nice features and other one has other. Both fucked up with flaws. But at the end it's all about what fits you the best, and in my case I guess I'll stick with iPhone for now.

Update: I was holding for two weeks. Barely. Have to got back on Blackberry. I guess it's an addiction.