Here at CrackBerry, and indeed Mobile Nations, we hold one truth above all others: There is no perfect smartphone, only the smartphone that is perfect for you. Outside of our Mobile Nations family, very few sites and blogs have actually gotten that one right. That's why when bobocox1 posted a link in the CrackBerry Forums to this Business Insider article, I was pleasantly surprised.
In the article, Matt Lynley put together a fair and comprehensive look at the iPhone vs. BlackBerry debate. He raised a lot of good points about areas where the iPhone beats BlackBerry and where BlackBerry beats the iPhone. All was well and good in the post, until I read this about sharing photos and videos from the two Smartphones.
By comparison, the BlackBerry's sharing mechanisms still feel a little clunky and aren't really integrated at all with the operating system. You have to dive into the apps to ship content off to the web, and it's nowhere near as fast as it is on the iPhone.
In the words of Sheila Broflovski, "What, what, what?" I can share any picture from my BlackBerry to Twitter in two clicks/taps. That sort of sharing is highly integrated into the operating system; you don't even have to open Twitter to do it. And although we've somehow overlooked writing that particular BlackBerry 101, you've been able to share that way since long before I joined CrackBerry. Sharing and communicating are, after all, at the heart of the BlackBerry Experience.
Now, before you all go off and leave nastygrams on Mr. Lynley's article, remember that we've all had that "I didn't know you could do that" moment. Until last week, I didn't know you could change folder colors. True, this IDKYCDT is a bit more prominant than folder colors, but it happens to the best of us. Remember, too, even with this supposed "fault" in the BlackBerry, Lynley still chose BlackBerry over iPhone. And that, my friends, still says quite a lot about the Smartphone brand we love so much.
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RoseBud68 Nov 29, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Thats is cool & I could say that IDKYCDT!!!!
lovmytruk Nov 29, 2011 at 1:06 pm
ok, I guess I'm having an off day, but how do you do this?
Joseph Holder Nov 29, 2011 at 1:30 pm
It's in the video, but I'm going to write a 101 on sharing pictures soon. Basically, find a picture you want to send, click/tap the Send link in the bottom left (or select Send from the menu) and then click/tap Twitter. That's of course assuming Twitter is set up on your BlackBerry and all.
lovmytruk Nov 29, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Thanks! I didn't want to look bad by asking that question but I did what you said and it worked! BTW I love Twitter!
belfastdispatcher Nov 29, 2011 at 1:52 pm
You can also hold the trackpad down over the picture on OS6 or hold your finger on the screen or the trackpad on OS7 for the send option (and others) to pop up.
belfastdispatcher Nov 29, 2011 at 2:19 pm
I don't understand when people say blackberry apps are not integrated when they are the most integrated out of all platforms, you can also easily send a twitt to facebook or a facebook post to twitter, or a gtalk message to yahoo messenger, or facebook, or twitter, you can basically send anything to anywhere from any app. Doesn't get more integrated then this.
BaconMunch Nov 29, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Agreed! the Send As (Send To) function that pops up almost everywhere is one of the most integrated experiences ever.
Also app integration with BBM is gaining traction and serves as RIM's commitment to integration with one of it's highest rated features.
parked Nov 29, 2011 at 4:07 pm
I was talking to my uber-pro-Apple friend about Twitter integration. She brought it up as being a "new" feature with iOS5 and I told her that BlackBerry has had that for a while now. She laughed and said that is how Apple is - they find something that someone else does better, steal it, and then market it as if they're the ones who came up with it.
BB does integration so much cleaner and yet a very small majority know about its full capabilities. It's pretty sad when one of the head CrackBerryists didn't know about folder options. Just goes to show how much harder RIM needs to work on advertising/marketing or whatever a company needs to do to show people its strengths.
Black Eyed Peas commercials and promos can only do so much, RIM.
rottencorpse Nov 29, 2011 at 5:14 pm
well I say, if you DONT know what the phone can or cant do...dont write an article about it and make yourself look like an idiot....so yes we may have all done the "i didnt know this/that", but we are all not writing articles giving out false information. "It is better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"....oops, too late for this guy
parked Nov 30, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Haha, exactly. Definitely not something I'd be blogging about or admitting if I were part of the CB staff.
Big Spartacus Nov 29, 2011 at 5:49 pm
@parked RIM has a marketing dept?!?!? Lol
parked Nov 30, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Well, Einstein, who else is making those PlayBook TV commercials? The Torch ads in Kindles with Special Offers?
I know it's the "in" thing to bash on RIM and a sheep-like behavior for average people, but c'mon dude, come up with something original.
joshua15 Nov 29, 2011 at 9:33 pm
it doesnt work sometimes in my torch 9800 :(
Joseph Holder Nov 29, 2011 at 10:28 pm
Really? It worked all the time on my 9800. Send me a PM in the forums and we'll see if we can figure out the problems. Same name as in this comment.
eromanme Nov 30, 2011 at 5:11 am
Same here. My Torch 8310 doesn't display the Twitter option on the menu you get on the pictures album screen. I can send pix to email, sms, facebook, but not Twitter.
belfastdispatcher Nov 30, 2011 at 9:16 am
You need to have Twitter installed and to be signed in to it.
Hold on, 8310? That's a little onld now isn't it? You can probably send to Twitter from the Pictures app.