Radio Data Activation Blackberry Bold' title='Radio Data Activation Blackberry Bold' />Theres always a learning curve when transitioning from one technology to another. Read about one users experience switching from BlackBerry to Android, which. Unlocking instructions How to enter unlock code Sidekick Hiptop All models. Insert a non accepted SIM card and turn on the Sidekick A dialogue screen will prompt. Latest trending topics being covered on ZDNet including Reviews, Tech Industry, Security, Hardware, Apple, and Windows. One business users migration from Black. Berry to Android. As a system admin who is responsible for my companys Black. Berry server, I have carried a Black. Berry now for over five years. I started with the 8. Curve, then moved on to two kinds of Bold the first had a rolling trackball and the second came with a square trackpad. Im currently using a Bold 9. Black. Berry server is retired. Ive seen first hand how the BYOD movement eviscerated most of the Black. Berry fleet in my organization. At its peak, we had well over 1. Everyone else has moved over to i. Phones and Android devices, with a few stalwarts still proclaiming the Black. Berry does what they need it to, so why switch Im not a Black. Berry stalwart, since its the responsibility of any good IT pro to keep up on current trends, but Ive kept mine since I need to support my users and I do see some wisdom in what people have said about this device doing what they need. However, I knew Id need to evolve towards an Android or i. Phone to stay relevant. After weighing the pros and cons of each, I opted for an Android, specifically the Motorola Droid Bionic running the Android Jelly Bean OS and which I will refer to as Android in this article for the purpose of clarity. I began mapping the features and functions I grew accustomed to on my Black. Berry with those of the Android. To my surprise, it isnt an easy win for Android. There are some things Black. Berry does much better, whereas Android is clearly superior in other categories. These are the 1. 0 categories I focused on, which I present to you in this evaluation Specs and interface. Device administration. Email. Web browser. Documents. TasksCalendarNotes. Cloud storage apps Dropbox, Drive and Sky. DriveCamera. Battery. I didnt compare games, although I have a few installed on both devices for those long waits in the doctors office. Games arent a priority for my mobile device, and Black. Berry loses the contest anyhow by not having the ability to play Angry Birds except on Play. Book tablets. Specs and interface. In order for me to talk about the experiences Ive had using both devices, I need to address their respective specifications and interfaces. The hardware design and the way in which information is displayed, entered, and manipulated determines how handy the functions will be. For instance, Google Maps works fine on both devices, but Android makes it easier to use since the bigger touch screen allows better viewing and navigation. Touching and dragging to adjust the view is much less tedious than using the Black. Berry trackpad. Black. Berry Bold 9. 65. CPU 5. 28 MHz. Internal Memory 5. MBExternal Memory External micro. SD slot supporting cards up to 3. GBDisplay 4. 80 x 3. K colors. Body 4. Weight 4. 8 oz. Connectivity 2. G3. GSIMBuilt in Wi Fi. Input methods Physical keyboard and optical trackpad. Motorola Droid Bionic specs. CPU Dual core 1 GHz. Internal Memory 1. GB storage, 1 GB RAM, 2 GB ROMExternal Memory External micro. SD slot supporting cards up to 3. GBDisplay 5. 40 x 9. Cerere Activitate Rar'>Cerere Activitate Rar. M colors. Body 5. Weight 5. 5 oz. Connectivity 3. G4. GSIMBuilt in Wi Fi. Input methods Touch screen with virtual keyboard. Basically, the specs show that Black. Berry is lighter, slower, and has a smaller screen than Android Figure A. For many users, Android would seem to be a slam dunk over Black. Berry. After all, that touch screen is all you need, right Figure AThe interface of Black. Berry and Android. Well, not so fast. My luck with touch screens is middling at best. Perhaps 2. 0 years in the IT industry has worn the sensitivity off of my fingertips, but I often have to poke and prod a touch screen twice as long as I do a physical keyboard. My wife has a Nook that requires you to swipe your finger to the right to unlock it, and it usually takes no less than 2. I give up and have one of our kids do it for me. I can bang out three paragraphs of an email on the Black. Berry before Ive even got the second sentence typed on the Androids touch screen. I dont think its necessarily just me, either, since I loaned the Android device to my daughter so she could type a Facebook update on my page, and it took her several minutes with lots of oopses and backspacing. Mac Os X 10.5 Leopard Iso Ppc. The physical keyboard on the Black. Berry runs circles around Android when entering text, even with Swype and word shortcuts on the Androids side. If I need to respond to an email very quickly, take a quick note, or write down a must do task, Ill use the Black. Berry every time. I can even do this one handedThen theres the display issue. You cant beat a bigger screen, but I find that the Black. Berry sometimes formats docs better and actually uses the smaller screen to its advantage in terms of margins, spacing, etc. Ill get to that below. Also, Im still trying to tame the accelerator on the Android which switches the screen from portrait to landscape as you turn the device on its side, since it sometimes overreacts and abruptly changes the display, even though I havent tilted the phone. The Black. Berry notification screen makes it easier to see how many new emails I have, even when the display is locked. Thats a nice way to immediately see whats going on if I have 5. I know something very bad is happening at work. Android doesnt give me a message count at present, though I could probably find a widget for that. Finally, I must say the faster CPU on the Android doesnt seem to come into play. Both devices seem equally responsive, except when my Black. Berry hangs trying to load HTML mail. However, I think this is a limitation of the email application rather than the processor. Device administration. By device administration, Im referring to the nitty gritty tasks like customizing the home screen, changing settings, using storage, installing apps, and conducting updates. Its relatively easy to drag icons around and position them where you want on both phones. Changing display, security, and font settings is also comparable. Both devices use similar storage formats, and the process of installing apps is slightly on the same page. Theres a Black. Berry App World and a Google Play Store, but the first takes eons to install apps and Android loads them up within seconds. There are so many more apps for Android than Black. Berry that its really not a fair comparison. And then we have updates. Neither the Bold nor the Droid Bionic come out with frequent updates, but when they do, the installreboot process is similar. Granted, the power up time for Android is much faster than on the Black. Berry, but I find I have to do this very rarely with both. Html Powerpoint Presentation here. So, Id say its a push between the two. You can install other Android operating systems, but this is not something Ive delved into yet, sticking with the official releases from Motorola to date. Email. Once upon a time, email was the main purpose of having a mobile device oh yeah, and phone calls. The corporate email set up on the Black. Berry is straightforward add the user to the server, activate the device preferably during lunchtime so the activation process has a good long time to complete, and start using it. Its similar on Android, except instead of activating the phone, you set up the account through Active. Sync. For both devices, adding secondary or tertiary email accounts is easy, and there are an array of options using IMAP, POP, and so fort,h which have been discussed in great length elsewhere. In terms of email usage, I think Black. Berry has superior filters.