Thinking about switching from blackberry to iphone, need your advice.

Like a lot of us here, I'm a former BlackBerry user. At one time, I was a huge BlackBerry defender but after making the switch several years ago I would not go back. I tell you this so you will know the perspective I'm coming from.

I will take you at your word that you're sincere, but the "tools-toys" comment raise sets off a troll alert with me. Even though the "tools not toys" slogan campaign was a massive failure for BlackBerry, BlackBerry users still use it attempting to make the case that their phone is for serious users and all other phones are nothing more than playthings.

I am a high school teacher and exchange massive amounts of email with students, parents, and colleagues. In all of my years of using an iPhone and I've never found the iPhone's email app to be lacking.

I listen to several podcasts and enjoy using the iPhone's podcast app. I know many others who use a third-party app for podcasts, but either way you will find list ening to podcasts on the iPhone flawless. I do not subscribe to RSS feeds so I cannot speak to the iPhones capability on that.

I use dropbox extensively and have found the iPhone great. Since you have a MacBook you will like the sync between your computer and phone.

The calendar is REALLY important to me as well, and I have no problem using the native iPhone calendar. There are many others here on iMore that prefer a third-party calendar app, but since I don't use any of those I cannot comment about them.

I'm not sure what you're asking here. What apps do you want your calendar and email to be able to interact with.

I don't do a lot of scanning with my phone, but I do store PDF's on my phone and iBooks works for me.

As I said earlier, I save my documents in Dropbox. No iPhone user is "forced" to use iCloud for anything although it is a great feature for backing up your calendar, contacts, and syncing between the iPhone and Mac.

If this is the case, the iPhone will meet your needs. As I wrote before, I have several PDF files on my iPhone and use iBooks to read them without problem.

I know nothing about Android devices and very little about the new BlackBerry 10 phones. Here is what I do know, I now own a iPhone 5s and 50% of the time I use it for work related activities. In the time that I've owned iPhones I have been happy with the way I could complete work with them. Good luck and I hope you find the phone that works best for you.

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