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Thankfully South Africa seems, for once, to be right up there when it comes to launching new Blackberry models. I upgraded to the Curve about a year ago and can't wait for the Bold.
Wish I had not read the review :) - already drooling.
Gary
On a side note... Where can I get the Blackberry Cool Wallpaper you showed on page 4 about the Bold's Screen?
Thanks
Here ya go, Mike. I'll cook up a few more dimensions in case you want it something other than a Bold, maybe even desktop if you dig us that much. ;)
The design is from our t-shirt, available here...
http://www.cafepress.com/bbcool
The only crazy thing is that people actually view the RIM offering as a better option than Apple's iPhone. Sure you can spend $399 on a sub-par device for a 3 year plan....that my friend is the only crazy thing.
what about the mp3 player.
very important feature to me as I am a public transportation commuter. I didn't love my curve for that. it lacked 2 basic abilities, playlists and equalizer controls.
any thoughts?
cheers
b
Sorry for the issues. We've never tried to make a post this large before, and either Wordpress or our theme is refusing to display all the pages.
We're working to figure out what's going on right now. Won't be too long hopefully!!!
BTW ... great job on the review .. now ATT just needs to launch the Bold.
Remember kids, always backup your work. Because the Internet hates you.
No issues with 3G at all. Obviously Ottawa isn't the most metropolitan city in the world, but you might be able to chalk it up to Rogers > AT&T when it comes to 3G coverage.
@Sean,
Not certain about the maximum MicroSD capacity. We only have a 4GB lying around, so we'll have to look into it. For the record, the 16GB number comes from the initial Bold press release in May, so things could have changed since then.
Wait for it....
NOT!!!
@ Bryan, these are features of 4.5 OS and well integrated into the 4.6 OS of the Bold
@ Blackberry Cool, HSPA to GPRS handover works extremely well here in OZ. Over 100km's between work and home moves seemlessly between the two. Best review so far by the way, the screenshots made you beat out BGR's :)
An AppStore for BlackBerry. We need easier development, easier accessibility, for BlackBerry so that new users of BlackBerry can easily find a favourite application without needing to hunt many different sources on the Internet for it.
Apps doesn't have to be exclusive to the BlackBerry AppStore, but a pre-installed well-stocked AppStore makes it irresistible for developers to provide copies of their application for the unified AppStore - since everyone would be able to access it and purchase applications that way.
There is some trickiness tiptoeing around corporate users whose admins don't want such functionality, but if RIM want to be serious about selling more units to consumers, we need a built-in AppStore, as well as the addition of improved development environments.
(P.S. RIM API needs to really be overhauled, baby... There's a lot of legacy stuff that's holding it back.)
Actually Mark, my Bold came with a Rogers Mall icon that launches into an online app store. I think RIM is more interested in leaving distribution to carriers, while still having references like the BlackBerry Solutions Catalog ( http://www.blackberrysolutionscatalog.com/ ) available for folks to peruse.
@Kyle
Considering the pricing, and how it's replacing the BlackBerry 8800, I would place the Bold in the executive/enterprise category. Given, there's a camera there that some companies might not be too happy with, and the slick screen seems a little too multimedia-friendly to be purely business, I think they're more icing on the cake than anything else.
@dubz
Having pocketed the Pearl for a long time, the Bold definitely feels a little bulky. Right now I'm holstering it, but it actually fits in my front jean pocket no problem. It might be a little trickier if you're putting anything else in there, though.
Just to follow up, one part of my review I forgot to throw in was a mention of how I carried the Bold. I usually place my BlackBerry in the front breast pocket of my tweed blazer (from 7100 to 7130 to pearl to curve) and the Bold is the first one that doesn't fit. But it's fine in your pants pocket -- just don't put your keys in there too!
Thanks, Derek
AS
It is launched in the UK on Orange and there are problems with Maps not being implemented.
One of the great things about the iPhone is that (once set-up) it will seamlessly flip from using wifi comms to mobile provider comms. So I sit in the garden looking at a site or two on the net and it is using my wifi link. I walk off and it automatically then moves to mobile comms to get web pages without me having to do a thing - nothing. And when I wander back it picks up the wifi and starts using that again. Can the Bold do this?
The reason I ask is that I have a Nokia E61 and this will not do the above. I have to endlessly click and do stuff to swap - and even to just pick up email it seems to want to keep asking me what comms to use. Very annoying. There is a third party app to help correct this but I'd prefer a phone (like the iPhone) which does the right thing from the off.
I do appreciate with the advent of 3G that wifi is not so vital perhaps but I do use my mobile device around the house a lot and I don't want to be eating into my 'all I can eat' mobile data allowance - which is actually capped and expensive if I were to go above.
Thanks for you help and also such an informative review.
but you can expand up to 16 gb with micro sd cards
wow! i cant wait to get mine!!