There are many smart phones out there today and I thought it would be beneficial for some to compare 2 popular choices in today's market. Blackberry and Palm each have their versions of smart phones and as you will see they are very unique.
The Black
berry that I will be using for the comparison is the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8300. This smartphone is the smallest and lightest BlackBerry® smartphone ever to come with a full QWERTY keyboard.
It’s features include a camera, BlackBerry® Maps, a media player, expandable memory, Voice-Activated Dialing, tethered modem, trackball navigation, email and text messaging, instant messaging, web browser and advanced phone functionality. This smartphone's dimensions are: 4.2"/107mm (Length) 2.4"/60mm (Width) 0.6"/15.5mm (Depth) and 3.9 oz/111g (Weight). It has a battery life of: Up to 408 hours or 17 days (Standby time) or up to 240 minutes or 4 hours (Talk time). It also has 64 MB (Flash memory) with the option of expandable memory – support for microSD card. The major downfall of this smartphone is that the only available software for pharmacists (that they would want) is tarascon.
berry that I will be using for the comparison is the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8300. This smartphone is the smallest and lightest BlackBerry® smartphone ever to come with a full QWERTY keyboard.It’s features include a camera, BlackBerry® Maps, a media player, expandable memory, Voice-Activated Dialing, tethered modem, trackball navigation, email and text messaging, instant messaging, web browser and advanced phone functionality. This smartphone's dimensions are: 4.2"/107mm (Length) 2.4"/60mm (Width) 0.6"/15.5mm (Depth) and 3.9 oz/111g (Weight). It has a battery life of: Up to 408 hours or 17 days (Standby time) or up to 240 minutes or 4 hours (Talk time). It also has 64 MB (Flash memory) with the option of expandable memory – support for microSD card. The major downfall of this smartphone is that the only available software for pharmacists (that they would want) is tarascon.
The Palm that I will be using for the comparison is The Treo 750. The Palm® Treo™ 750 combines a world GSM phone, email, messaging, and web with the power of Wind
ows Mobile® in one easy-to-use, stylish device. This Palm comes with Windows Mobile® 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition with Direct Push Technology, but there are also Palm's available with Palm OS operating systems. The battery life of this smart phone is also up to 4 hours (Talk time) or Standby time: Up to 250 hours. The dimensions are 4.44" H x 2.3" W x 0.8" D111mm x 58mm x 22mm and it weighs 5.4 ounces. The Treo comes with 128MB / 60MB persistent user storage, non-volatile flash with available miniSD card slot; up to 2GB card supported. This smart phone can use CP onhand, epocrates, and every other resource that is available for windows mobile, that is if you purchase enough memory!
ows Mobile® in one easy-to-use, stylish device. This Palm comes with Windows Mobile® 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition with Direct Push Technology, but there are also Palm's available with Palm OS operating systems. The battery life of this smart phone is also up to 4 hours (Talk time) or Standby time: Up to 250 hours. The dimensions are 4.44" H x 2.3" W x 0.8" D111mm x 58mm x 22mm and it weighs 5.4 ounces. The Treo comes with 128MB / 60MB persistent user storage, non-volatile flash with available miniSD card slot; up to 2GB card supported. This smart phone can use CP onhand, epocrates, and every other resource that is available for windows mobile, that is if you purchase enough memory!Both smart phones seem flashy and cool but only one would help you keep cool at the workplace. The Blackberry just does not have access to any of the big name and big information resources that many pharmacists will need. I say this is a no brainer, if you need information from a big time resource don't get a Blackberry.
2 comments:
I couldn't agree more with this assessment. The Blackberry is a nice looking and lighter weight smart phone, but if you intend to use this smart phone for rotations, you are very limited in the drug information programs you can save to the phone. The Palm has the user friendly Windows system, as well as the ability to download multiple drug information programs. Since we will be pharmacists someday, the obvious choice of smart phones would be the Palm in order to get the information sources you will need in the profession and at the workplace.
The Blackberry smartphone is definitely not suited for pharmacists. Unfortunately, the greater information access you get with the Palm Treo comes with a price. The device price for a Blackberry Curve 8300 online is $199 with a two year agreement, while the device price for the Palm Treo 750 online is $649 with a two year agreement. Also, I checked the availability of plans through each smartphone at my home zip code, and the Blackberry Curve 8300 was available while the Palm Treo 750 was not. Both smartphones have their drawbacks, but the Palm Treo 750 is definitely a better choice for pharmacists versus a Blackberry.
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