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Buying Advice

by terryaski1961 Mar 4, 2011 11:54PM PST

I need to buy a new smartphone, and I need advice. I have a BB (Tour 9630), but it just can't do what I need it to do....I need to be able to manage two business FB and Twitter accounts; I also oversee a LinkedIn group. I need the phone to be really good at e-mail. And, I don't think I want an iPhone because I don't want to be without flash (or do you not miss that?) Forgive me if this discussion is redundant, but...if I can't ask on cnet??!!! Thanks for your patience....

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a new phone for which provider?

by Pepe7 Mar 6, 2011 7:07AM PST

That's the kicker.

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sorry about that...Verizon

by terryaski1961 Mar 6, 2011 10:30AM PST

Duh...I guess that would help!

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Plenty of fere iPhone apps for that

by Pepe7 Mar 7, 2011 9:58AM PST

IMO you might not even miss flash unless there's a specific site you require that does not already have an iOS compatible mobile version. The Twitter, Linkdin & FB apps all work quite well in the iPhone ecosystem IME. The only issue will be lack of instantaneous switching between various social networking accounts on a mobile device. That part's still a bit easier on a standard computer IME. The workaround might be using separate (different) Twitter apps, one for each respective account you need to utilize. YMMV. Drawback w/ iPhone on Verizon is you have to hang up to use data . With ATT I have become accustomed to putting people on speakerphone while I'm looking something up .