On the RIM BlackBerry Bold 9000, huh? We I knew coming in October last year since we broke the news but by then it is BlackBerry communities iPhone. Sorry for iPhone reference so early in the review, but true. This device is a BlackBerry user has been waiting. Finally a BlackBerry, it has everything. " 3G, GPS, Wi-Fi, QWERTY keyboard, camera, big screen, clean Styling, and others. Since this is our day to day BlackBerry exclusively, we experienced many ups and downs bold. Here'sa summation of our first day with Bold, followed by our thorough review ...
One minute went by. Then two. Then three. What the hell? This is not supposed to be at least double the speed of the older models? When the unit is powered Finally, we were greeted by the usual wizard to install. Once terminated this (I Languages remove manually, athankyou) It was time to examine the device. At first glance, the first thing you'll see is evident in gorgeous on the screen, 9000. We can safely say that this is the best screen we have seen on a mobile device. Hands down. Well, after messing around with a few applications and study, it is time to include wireless connectivity and T-mother. 5 bars of service appear with GSM indicator. And over. Oh my God, we're so close! 3G-finally appeared. We were in business! But not so fast. No sooner than 3G indicator show the device for some reason restarted. All Berry lovers will know that very well. LED red, black screen. After waiting another three or four minutes to drive to power again, same thing happened! Everything was fine until I tried to become wireless. O brother. What now? Bold is made in endless loop of good two hours. The battery is only 40 percent, so we decided to keep her urinate until it is fully charged. Bad plan because it does not help. After managing to get right at startup and shutdown mode wireless device is stable again. Great. What's BlackBerry as a PDA? Do not answer. Until now we practically had a gun pointed to our heads. We messed up with Bold, but we even can not use the unit for? After a quick chat with one of our BlackBerry ninjas, we were promptly send updated software for construction. Now it's time to update the OS.
We opened Manager Desktop 4.5 and continue to update the device. This totally blew up part us! Gone are the days of 30-45 minutes Backup and update. This is probably no more than 6 minutes to erase backup device applications, utilization of the system software and what not. The only part that took little was waiting for device to initialize after it was made. Immediately after launch with the new OS, we were right! Bold connected to the network, purely and simply we did our Enterprise activation. First thing you did? Check out the BlackBerry Messenger! God knows if there is one thing, making us keep out BlackBerrys ... The new customer is not dramatically different, but there are some semi-cool additions. For example, the position is the same, but the schedule online, away, and unavailable have changed. You can set alert to be notified when a friend comes back online and can broadcast a message to all have an open conversation village digging a little deeper into Messenger, we found that you can activate the option to change your status, when you're on the phone, and even automatically change your status to reflect whatever they play MP3 device. Absolutely iChatish, but not bad.
After Messenger, was the browser. First, nothing seemed different from everything. That was until they brought him euro. In BlackBerry web browser really was redone to act more like a Web browser, and is not part of the garbage in 1990 of WAP browser. Pages terrify fast in 3G, or even the edge. They are formatted 90 percent of the time correctly and images look sharp and crisp. You now have new controls in trackball. Instead of just the mouse cursor as before, the default setting is a zoom key. Just go through what you would like to increase press trackball and zoom. It can also be reached by clicking the "I" and "O" to approach and depart on the keyboard.
We fired some Off Emails keypad, made several phone calls and started to sit back, relax, and have fun with our new BlackBerry Bold. Improved battery life 10 times when the new operating system was installed, overheating and we noticed soon dissipated. It is still a little warm when you're freakin ", but oh well. Here is a complete review of the device and the latest software build. We are not based on a review of the extremely crappy built before.
Design:
Some may say that looks awfully like iPhone. But not Mr. Lazaridis. According to him, each BlackBerry device is three years in decisions. " They probably can not make the device around the iPhone, because it began three years ago, right? In all seriousness that there are several similar design features like chrome border around the unit and black front, but it really stops there. We do not think that just said, "to copy iPhone." The chrome you see in the Bold is nothing more than cheap plastic that scratches too easily, though.
Screen:
I said before, but this really is on the screen to win. May be a little too "contrasty" at times, if you know what I mean, but generally, it steals the show. This is the most diverse, rich color, sharp screen we saw on a mobile device. It can be extremely bright, if what you like, tenderness or lower. In auto-dim features of BlackBerry devices, he displayed adapt to the surrounding you, so do not upset you. One big problem with the screen, though? She and chrome border around the device is made of plastic and incredibly cheap scratches easily. We kept the Bold in your pants pockets with nothing inside or BlackBerry leather sheath. After only a day or so scratches began to appear out of no where gorgeous on display. They better to ship it for free over protectors!
Keyboard:
If you know us, you know we do not easily let keyboards Off! And if there is someone who understands keyboards, it is usually RIM. Think of the 9000 keypad like a cross between 8800 and Pearl. The keys are quite large in size, a bit squishy, but firm. They do not feel plasticky-like curves. After only about 10-15 minutes just to write found nearly as fast as we were in 8310. Layout of the keyboard is exactly the same as you would find in other BlackBerrys. Even if all other symbols are in the same place. This makes it easy to jump right into the device. Send, BlackBerry, back and end keys are unusually large, however. It is not bad. This is just embarrassing for some reason. They all work well, but we can not figure out why RIM decided to make them so big. Possible design a situation where they are ready device size, can not make any small, and it was to fill the dead space with large keys. Keyboard back lighting is great too. Only accents, letters and symbols up white light. Not all key, the curve.
Connectivity:
Each dream BlackBerry users in bold. 3G data, GPS and Wi-Fi makes this a hit. Unless you're trying to find has a good chance Bold will help you stay connected no matter where you are. A-GPS in Bold works great, always fast and accurate lock in place whenever requested. The included BlackBerry Maps works well, but as TeleNav hooked us, we use that time without a hitch. Er, AT and T Navigator. If you use BlackBerry with Wi-Fi, it is also very good concept. Select Wi-Fi network and off you go. This is especially useful when you have lower or no coverage area still have access to Wi-Fi HOTSPOT. We found no problems in using 3G cellular networks and Wi-Fi at the same time, although the actual use of Wi-Fi for data transmission. You can not use Wi-Fi, if you turn the radio boxes Off, but you can use Wi-Fi, if you do not have a cell signal. Food for thought? We noticed that sometimes when using Wi-Fi, the device will lose a network connection BlackBerrt on the cell network. Possible battery-saving accessory?
Operating system:
Will say that since the beginning of ... 4,6 OS is 99 percent the same as current BlackBerry. If you are using 8700 or something. Few things are tweaked, to use the device a little more easily, but for the most part, you're basically looking into the skin at the top level. This does not mean there are not some changes below the surface, but for the average BlackBerry user, you will not notice anything except really quite semi-interface enhancements. It is now 15 July, and even running past 4.6.0.93 building, we are still exposed darpa battery good 10 times a day. Why? Java errors between permanent and completely lost BlackBerry service and inform us that the "Search Network ...". Here's why. What is sad is that even with this bad ass CPU 624MHz, we are still slow decline and we still freezes. Not so mixed that it is 100 percent faster than any other BlackBerry. We simply can not understand why this thing is not optimized as it should be. Ah! Since the OS is 1999
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Again, mostly level stuff, but there are multiple applications. They include WordToGo, PowerPointToGo, WordMole, as well as several other games that have been around for a while. There is something beneath the surface of the game called the BlackBerry service and what it is not true allows multi-player games over cellular and Wi-Fi. Garbage will win by our friend in WordMole who was in the middle of the whole country. Sorry, buddy. One of the favorite applications, if not the favorite, as is BlackBerry Messenger said before. In the updated BlackBerry Messenger, you will find the added functionality as the ability to broadcast a message to all open calls placed on their status changed automatically when the phone and change the status to reflect whatever song is performed by a Media Player. HTML email is evident then that you be taken by BIS 2,5 carrier or your company is simple HTML email back to the BES 4.1.5. Absolutely terrific movie, though? If you download the attachment and stressed that email, it will show you the status bar indicated how far the download. Welcome to 2008, RIM. Now would you please stop are pansies and show us the progress bar for outgoing messages, please? You know, some of us really want to send videos and pictures and what not. Oh, yes! Video over BlackBerry Messenger, too, but we are in it. Kthnkz.
Agent:
The web browser is actually one of the last things ready for bold as we were told. As in earlier versions of the browser was nowhere near what we used, and we must tell you ... This is pretty good tarnal! This is not iPhone, but definitely serviceable. Each user BlackBerrry whether corporate or consumer will appreciate the new browser improved rendering, speed and control. This really shows how Web pages to be displayed, but navigation can get a little tiring. Instead of the regular mouse that we have been used recently, the forefinger is now approaching a default pointer. Several clicks trackball, and you zoom into a web page. Sometimes the page will reformat the screen sometimes is not. Forget about the flash or something sexy, but updated browser is definitely pretty good.
Battery life:
Another concern is possible purchasers Bold is battery life. There is so much information floating around, what is the true story? Until about 3-4 weeks before any building OS had tried big battery problems. Random restarts, drive all dead within a few hours and others with the latest software version, we can safely say we are as good or better battery life than we did with our curve. Yes. Is not this awesome? Thanks to the 1500mAh battery and load of crap art is part of RIM, which finally nailed it down. To give you a little detail of use: 300-500 emails a day, an hour surfing the Internet in 3G, Wi-Fi typically include, Bluetooth disabled, JiveTalk related, and about one hour telephone call (not really used t BlackBerry as a phone) lasted from: 9am to 4:30.
Sound quality:
RIM is trying to dance in the department good, and it shows. Instead of the speaker covered by curve has speaker grilles on both sides of the device and on top as well. Sound quality of play back music sounds decent. Not great, not terrible. May be a little harder, but even as it stands, music is still distortion of the loudest volume setting. Also, the microphone volume can be set up will find lower than our curve.
Call quality:
We found that call quality is fantastic. This is the most similar to the BlackBerry phone now. People will speak sounded crystal clear, they said: we sounded great. In the handset volume was strong enough so that there should be no problems there. This 3G network is also likely to help much with the call quality and, right?
Build quality:
This is a complex one. We have a production unit, hardware and trackball to get a little suspicious. Then again, not all BlackBerrys? There are no creaks device, and it seems hard as heck. The screen can be a problem, since it seems this is cheap plastic, and chromium Border around the body is also lower grade plastic. At least it seems that way to us. Watch the screen to pochesa all hell, but Niks, scrapes and dents to show the device body. Our unit, the battery is a little bulk to the message when the button is kind of movements in and out when you press it. We are, if you are not sure will be resolved when the device is released, but it can definitely see annoying. We will not call the Bold fragile, but I do not think its built and curve.
So what you think? Happy with our review? Want even now Bold ... even less? Sound Off. See more on some positions on the Bold comes soon.
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