BB OS or S60?

kelcy s

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With the Blackberry 8320 for T-Mobile confirmed, I'm looking at my upgrade options. So should I stick to Blackberry, or go for one of my S60 options (e61i or perhaps E90)? I'm really stuck on this one.

Here's my situation First and foremost it's an e-mail and web browsing device I need, then entertainment comes second. Blackberries are more solid with e-mail, but S60 phones can handle push well enough with Blackberry Connect. But the S60 devices seem to be better on websites from what I've read. So that doesn't really help much.

I'm a psychology student so I look up a lot of academic papers. When I just need one stat or a graph it's faster to just pull out a smartphone then dig out my laptop. Right now my data device is the Blackberry 8700 and it works ok for that.

The two upgrades I really want are Wi-Fi and a camera so that doesn't really help my choice, all three of the devices I've picked out have those.

So I guess what I'm asking is purely from an OS standpoint, do I stick with the stability of BB and go with something I know works well, or try one of the S60 options that are more tweakable, but are still on a fairly solid platform?

I would LOVE to hear from someone who has used both.
 
Since you already has a BB, go for the E61i. Browsing and email are pretty good with wide screen/QWERTY/WiFi. S60 has more 3rd party support and its OS is pretty robust.
 
I'll second that. I've used both (borrowed a friend's BB) and while the BB OS looked OK and all, it really didn't impress me, especially compared to S60.
 
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