In the smartphone market, two stars have a lot of fans and get constant publicity: iPhone and Blackberry. Of course there are on market also HTC and Palm, but Apple and RIM have quite large market shares, and the big battle on this market is for sure between these two companies, and especially between these two products. Q3 2008 was the historical moment when iPhone went ahead of BlackBerry, and this was because Apple sold 6.9 million phones, and RIM only 6.1. iPhone or BlackBerry is a pretty tough question for geeks, and it would be interesting to compare these two products and see what are differences, and find out which are the aspects that make one phone or another better.

I think it's fair to compare the higher end BlackBerry phones (Bold, Curve, Storm) with the 3G iPhone. It would be silly to compare iPhone 3G with BlackBerry Pearl, which doesn't cost more than $50. Basically this is just an overall comparison, between more aspects of these smartphones.

A very important thing is that iPhone and BlackBerry markets are starting to overlap. If the iPhone is the media consumer's dream, with a lot of possibilities to play movies and music easily, it might not be the perfect product for a corporate user. A lot of companies have resisted the temptation of allowing the employees to use iPhone in the corporate network. Analysts speculate that currently, Apple is working on a corporate friendly product which will integrate a third party to handle the e-mail issue.

BlackBerry has been for a long time, the staple of corporate users who needed e-mail and calendar features, but RIM, recently has changed a little bit this strategy and added to the newer versions of BlackBerry some cool entertainment features. Now, RIM products have cameras which shoot both still and video images, they play music, and some voices say that RIM is working on BlackBerry 9000, which should have touchscreen and it might be very similar to Apple's iPhone.

In the matter of applications, I saw a very interesting utility created for BlackBerry. A smart guy wrote an application for his BlackBerry which would allow him to ignore some calls automatically, if they were from a particular number. The application allowed a good command on the smartphone, and even if the call still rang, it was immediatly ignored. Actually, BlackBerry doesn't have very interesting applications. There are some free applications, but they seem to be second rate at best, and the prices are quite strange for the paid apps. On the other hand, iPhone is an application heaven. Developers are encouraged to create, design and sell their applications, and iPhone App Store has a lot of interesting apps; you can find a quite wide range of utilities for iPhone there. Many of them make life easier, and they allow you to do this in the palm of your hand. There is Urbanspoon, which randomly selects the nearest restaurants for you with the shake of the iPhone. I heard voices saying that iPhone applications can be easily compared to wives, because they tell you everything, from where to eat, to what to wear and how should you combine your blue T-shirt with that brand new pair of jeans. Due to the overhelming availability of applications and all the encouragement by Apple for developers to design their own applications, iPhone is pretty cool on this aspect.

In the physical attributes arena, I would say that iPhone has a minus, because it might seem quite fragile. Many tests proved that the iPhone is actually durable, and there are also a lot of protection products specially designed for iPhone, from cases to rubber sleeves. The touchscreen and the motion sensibility are pretty cool, and you can play games by tilting the phone or zoom with a finger slide. BlackBerry Storm doesn't even come close to this, but the durability is the strongest factor of this smartphone. The worst problem with a BlackBerry I've heard until now was it got scratches on the back after it was turned on the table too many times. Maybe it was just a boring meeting, right? Even if it is run over by a truck, this little miracle smartphone holds its form, and avoids cracks. More than this, it doesn't lose a key. This smartphone was designed for business and travel, and I tend to believe that the key factor is its durability. For sure, this section is won by BlackBerry.

I don't think I have to explain more about gaming, because we all know the huge variety of games created for iPhone, and all the opportunities and manners we could play them, and we all know that BlackBerry has Brickbreaker. Well I think it's clear. In this section, the prize goes to iPhone and its thousands of games in the App Store.

BlackBerry is far superior to iPhone, concerning the ease of mobile e-mail and the connectivity to Microsoft Exchange SErver. BlackBerry may have a slower CPU, but it is ok for the office applications installed on it. If this smartphone it's secure enough for President Obama to use, I think it's clear that in this aspect BlackBerry has a plus point. iPhone has larger storage capacity, a faster CPU and much more RAM. iPhone is the best anti-productivity phone. Lately, iPhone became compatible too with Exchange Server, and this is a huge step in integrating this product with the business. Each of these phones has its advantages and disadvantages on these sectors,so BlackBerry wins for security and business use, and iPhone is the best for personal use.

The bottom line is 3-3, and this means that they are both great products, but he we have seen a lot of people who own a BlackBerry for business stuff, and in the other pocket they carry an iPod Touch, for all the entertainment offered and for portable gaming needs. From its gaming to its thousands of unique applications, iPhone is the device everybody wants to carry even if they have a Blackberry.

With the new iPhone 3GS, Apple solved some internal issues of the previous version, and to be specific they issued a beefed-up CPU, they set up a new internal compass and larger capacities for storage, and camera's optics are improved. The release of 3GS happened simoultaneously with the launch of OS 3.0, a huge jump from the previous versions software for system, which brings a lot of new things in our attention: cut/copy/paste function, stereo Bluetooth, video recording, accelerometer with landscape keyboard, an iPhone version of Spotlight and tethering. Apple is reinventing the wheel, and actually not reinventing it, but reshaping it.

There is nothing new in the visually aspect about iPhone 3GS compared to iPhone 3G, but only the lettering on the back, which you can see that it's mirrored in the Apple Logo. The plastic case, home and power buttons and the mute switch are all the same like on iPhone 3G. The RAM has doubled from 128 MB to 256 MB, and the phones has 16 GB and 32 GB versions available.



iPhone 3GS seems to eliminate some of the little issues in the Contacts, Calendar and Messaging area, and these are good improvements, because they raise iPhone's functionality. On iPhone 3GS, the applications are more intense graphically, and the phone changed the surface of the touchscreen with an olophobic coating, which is a thin pellicule resistant to fingerprints. iPhone 3GS has a 3Mp built-in camera, which is not great, but competitive, and it has an autofocus function too.

Biggest changes on this device are in the software, and this new Spotlight is notable because it gives you homescreen access to all features on the device, and it provides a huge functionality by adding the search option within the mail. Voice Controls is a little bit useless, though the initial concept is to control the phone via simple voice commands, but it is kind of useless as I said, because if you are in a situation where you can't use your hands, why would you start an application with the voice command, and not use it afterward. It has its functionality, but it is limited.



Apple introduced a proper compass inside this new 3GS and the surprising news are coming from the battery field, which has an improved life. Apple measured improved quality over the 3G in almost all categories, but not in the 3G calling too, where the results don't show a major change.

Since iPhone 3GS is much faster, due to the new OS, this means that you will spend less time in applications, and the battery life is saved like this too.

Overall, iPhone 3GS is the best smartphone on the market, but if you got bored of the Apple look, you could try Palm Pre, or MyTough 3G. As a whole, it is a refined and improved version of what you already knew, iPhone 3G, which stays in a lot of people's attention for a long time.

If you want to recover a message that you have deleted from your iPhone, there are some methods you can do that. All messages you send or receive on your iPhone, are stored into an inaccessible database in its main memory. This allows the system to store a quite large amount of messages to be stored. iPhone it is setup from default settings to delete a conversation from this database only when you choose it and it is no longer stored on the iPhone only after a serious clean of the memory, including the back-ups.

There is one hope on recovering the deleted messages, and this is the backup on your computer. If you ran the sync process after the message has been created, but before it was deleted, you can still recover it. For this, plug your iPhone into the computer, and restore the last backup from iTunes menu. Before of this, you should save the files that you want not to be backed up. Another problem is that if you make a backup now, after the deletion of the important message, you will lose the message. It all depends on how important the message was and if it's just the date&time of the message, you can try checking the AT&T datalog.

For saving, archiving, and viewing the iPhone messages, you can use a software like Syphone, which is a freeware utility for Macintosh, and especially for iPhone users. This software can be installed on your Mac, and it doesn't modify anything on your iPhone, except the thing that it allows you to view, save and backup the messages on it, even the ones you have deleted.



On iPhone, you can store a limited number of messages at one time. If you exceed this limit, the existing conversations might be deleted to make room for the new messages. Syphone allows you to create this space for the new ones, and keep the ones you want on your computer. You can do this maintenance in the familiar iChat format to view the archived messages and in addition, if you have more iPhones, it can create separate profiles for each of them.

Now that you have found out how to recover deleted text messages on iphone, you can make easily mistakes, knowing that there are some solutions for this problem!

Since it has been released, iPhone, with its cool design and impressive features, has been a hit on the market and a commercial success, though it has a high price and it requires a two-year wireless commitment with AT&T. There are enthusiasts which are supporting iPhone, even if it has its problems. Researching all of these problems found on Internet, or at its users on the streets, malls, restaurants, here we have gathered most often complaints, and you have in this article a top of iPhone complaints. You could have faced some of them if you have an iPhone, and you might surprised at seeing other problems, which you haven't discovered yet, here in this top.

Many of the iPhone users seem to be happy with the product they have purchased, but there still is room for development and work on the features use most of the time: connectivity, battery charge time, chatting and messages. There are many complaints about the dropped calls and the battery life, and concerning the dropped calls, neither AT&T nor Apple are taking responsibility. There are many applications for iPhone which drain its battery quite fast. When Apple released its iPhone 2.1,they had in mind to reduce the amount of dropped calls and to improve battery's life.

3G was released in July 2008 and it was sold in more than a million units during the first weekend. The iPhone works when it is in a 3G location and it should work in the slower EDGE network, when the 3G gets low. Sometimes, because of this switch in the networks, there is a lag/delay in the jump. The phone replacement program is also disappointing Apple fans, because AT&T doesn't offer any insurance for the handset, and usually, when an iPhone is broken, the users are asked to bring the iPhone to an Apple store, from where it's sent and fixed, if it still is in that one year manufacturer's warranty. For this matter, users have also the option of signing up for an Apple Care plan, but at cost of 79$. Another frustrating problem is concerning the software and the third party applications. The lack of a copy/cut/paste function was a problem in the beginning, but lately it has been successfully solved. The lack of flash support and video recording missing is frustrating too for many of iPhone users. Some people don't like that they can't tilt the keyboard to use the landscape view, for an easier typing when writing messages, emailing or just chatting. Another faced problem with iPhone was that users couldn't forward a text, but it has also been solved with the latest software version.



This is the condensed list of 5 most known complaints about iPhone:

1. Dropped Calls/Reception
2. Battery Life- No removable battery
3. Disappointment with the Apple replacement program
4. Inconsistent internet speeds
5. No ability to tilt phone during emails or use the keyboard sideways

What other problems did you encounter in using your iPhone? Please comment and let me know and maybe Apple with take attitude if they see which are the most important iPhone complaints.

There is a lot of interesting content on YouTube, but there are copyright regulations and any video can disappear at any time. The best thing you can do to keep the information in the video at your access and make a local copy of the video. Having it on your storage devices means that the information will be in your possession as long as you want to keep it, without any restrictions on visioning it. As long as you don't distribute the videos to others, and you retain any copyright notices on the files ( this can be found in Youtube's Terms of Use, in sections 2A and 4).

If you want to have the videos you like very much on Youtube on your iPod also, there is a possibility to have them on your portable device too. You cand also have videos from Yahoo! and from Google videos too. For this, you need a special software to capture the streaming video. Here you will find an example for an Youtube, and if you find it useful please comment, or if you find other ways to do that too.

To save videos from Youtube, you can go to Savetube.com and there you can input the link of the Youtube video you want, adn then you can save it. For transferring the saved file to your iPod, you should connect your iPod to your computer, and launch iTunes application. Find the file you want to transfer  and then drag it to the library. To update your iPod, go to File menu and then Update iPod.



There are two great services that bring the YouTube videos to your hard drive and convert them to the mp4 format, proper for iTunes and iPod. For Windows users, there is iTube, and the Mac users can use PodTube. Both websites are excellent for taking YouTube files and storing them to your hard disk and then you can transfer them to your iPod. I would like to mention that PodTube, the app for Mac users requires to use Safari.

Another possibility is to download the video in its original format, .flv and then convert it to a format readable for your iPod. You can download .flv files using a plugin, widget, addon or extension for your browser, and you will find at least one of them for each browser, and after you have downloaded it, you can see it is properly saved by watching it with VLC player, which can play all the flash-format video files. The last thing you have to do is to convert it to a iPod  format and you can do this in two ways: with online software or with desktop applications. I think that the most reliable applications are the desktop ones, like Replay Converter for Windows users, or iSquint for Mac users.

I hope that this article will answer your question: "how do I get Youtube videos on my Youtube?" and if you have any suggestions or better methods please comment and let me and other people know.