Having used a Blackberry Curve 8330 on Verizon’s network for many months, I feel I can provide a fairly deep comparison between that and my new iPhone 3G. Let me preface the following by saying I am neither a Mac nor a PC. I am both, and neither. I use OSX Leopard just as often as I do XP SP3 and Vista x64 SP1, along with Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10. I am an OS-aholic. So I have no strong ties to any given platform.
What inspired the change was this: Up until the last month or so of my Verizon service, e-mail delivery on my Curve was nigh instantaneous. We’re talking 5-10 seconds average. I would get a little “ding!” out of my phone quicker than on my desktop e-mail client at my desk at work, and I should point that I am wired to the server by a single switch and a physical distance of perhaps 30 feet. That should clue you in. It was fast.
For the last 3-4 weeks, however, deliveries to my phone have been going slower and slower. I can verify that yes, e-mails are arriving in a timely fashion, as my desktop client is still showing work e-mail arrivals in the time you would expect. Same with Gmail. But my phone was frequently 10-15 minutes behind, and getting worse. I had full signal, according to my phone’s indicators, at all times.
