Blackberry vs Iphone Essay

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Abstract

The aim of this research was to investigate which is the best smart phone brand between Blackberry and Iphone by measuring the effectiveness of both marketing mix; Product, Price, Place and Promotions. A theoretical framework has been constructed and the group chose to conduct an online survey; using the website that enables users to create their own web-survey, in order to acquire the needed data for this research. The results indicate that the best smart phone so far is Blackberry because their company marketing mixes have been greatly positioned in the people’s mind and preferences. The marketing mix is a business tools in marketing product. The marketing mix is often crucial when determining a product or brand’s
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For example is the Palm Treo; through its Blackberry connect software. The original device had a monochrome display, but all current models have color displays. All models had a built-in QWERTY keyboard, optimized for thumbing, the use of only the thumbs to type. The models are the all-touch Torch 9850/9860 except for the Storm series.

1.3.2 SMARTPHONE IPHONE

Iphone also one of part line of the Smartphone designed. The market is by Apple Inc and it was unveiled by Steve Job, the CEO of Apple on January 2007. The iPhone 4s; the generation 5th generation iPhone was announced on October 2011 and released 10 days later.

The function in iPhone 4 is a touch screen slate Smartphone also develop by Apple Inc. It is particularly marketed for video calling, consumption of media such as books and periodicals, movies and games and also for general web and email access. It was released in United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan. Apple Inc. announced about iPhone 4 on 2010 at San Francisco. It runs Apple’s iOS operating system, the same operating system as used on prior iPhones, the iPad and the iPod Touch. The mainly control by the user’s fingertips on the multi-touch display. It is sensitive to fingertip contact and the latest operating system release is iOS 5.1.

The new design, which incorporated a UN insulated stainless steel frame that acts as the device’s