BlackBerry Bold Review

If you were feverishly anticipating a cellphone this twelvemonth , it was one of two phones : this is the other one . That ’s because the BlackBerry Bold is RIM ’s most powerful , polished handset ever . With 3 G , a glossy unexampled UI , a real WWW web browser , serious ironware and an almost beautiful eubstance , the Bold does n’t redefine the BlackBerry experience , but it does elevate to the high point its ever been .

allow ’s be unclouded : If you hate BlackBerry headphone , you will still intensely dislike the Bold . As many coats of polish as RIM has thickly layered on the Bold , it is still a BlackBerry , with all of its lawsuit - and - bind DNA fully intact . Fundamentally , it works and play just like every other BlackBerry , but with a shipment of small - to - mass medium betterment , updates and tweaks that tot up up to a richer , more polished telephone that also looks far better than the rest while doing its affair . Screen Yes , the Bold ’s 480×320 screen is dazzling enough to warrant its own plane section devote simply to praising it . unbelievably full-bodied and contrast - y with stunning pixel density , it ’s so dainty you want to touch it . I actually tried to once or doubly to hit okay on a dialog boxful , bury that it was n’t the touchy variety of screen . It almost makes reading the plain text of an e-mail uncheerful , knowing you could be await at a gorgeous television rather . Keyboard A BlackBerry lives and die by its keyboard . When RIM diehards countered reckless banter about the death of the BlackBerry per the iPhone ’s Exchange supporting by pointing to the keyboard . After you get used to the svelte angle teddy in the Bold ’s key , they ’re fantastic , like a delicately balanced wine , with a utter portmanteau of springy , punchy and spongy . The glossy navigation keys are overly large for reasons I can not quite divine . The backlighting is beautiful . Body It ’s hands - down the better appear earphone RIM has put out , not to bring up one of the most attractive pieces of kit on the whole market , even if the neat chrome on black is borrowed from another telephone set ( and we ’re not saying it is ) . It looks like an fabulously New business machine , what you imagine people with more authoritative jobs than you would carry to carry business that ’s more important than yours , while talking to their comptroller about how much rich their bank building account is than yours . It exudes superpower . Welcome to 2008 , lip designing department . It ’s larger and encompassing than the Curve , but it still feels fine in my hand , which are n’t giant - sized by any means . The false - leather funding , however , is absolutely puzzling , like RIM endeavor to add a touch of class in the same way Donald Trump ’s hairdo gives him a touch sensation of handsome . In other words , it ’s fake as turd and feels tacky . Insignificant , really , but it ’s actually the thing I detest most about this phone . Nonetheless , it feel rock ‘n’ roll firm . association It has everything you desire : 3 G , GPS and Wi - Fi . Despiteearlier reportsthat it suffered from spoiled 3 G problems , I found that it was more consistent and reliable with its 3 G connection . It was n’t rare to grab four stripe of sign where , say , the iPhone only watch one . ( I actualise bars are not standardized or entirely accurate , but the disparity between the two was often meaning , two or more bar . ) In drive - testing , handoff went smoothly . GPS was slower than I would ’ve liked , more often than not choose up to a minute to get a lock , and the maps app could be raffish ( and prettier ) than it is , but it ’ll do . At least on AT&T it will forthwith have a decent sailing master app . Battery It ’s a champ . Despite deal of 3 GiB browsing , electronic mail and other everyday app usage , a half charge mighty out of the corner engender me through an eight - hour day with no job . Expect more detailed battery test update by and by , but all indication are that this thing will last you throughout the day with no trouble at all . agency to go , RIM . browser app Okay , sothere was some controversyabout how apace its web browser app renders liken to the iPhone . In my tests over Wi - Fi — and conceive me , I triple checked to verify it was on Wi - Fi — it was either bind with , or just behind the iPhone , like the gallant who recede to Michael Phelps by a fingerbreadth tip . The speed difference really is picayune . It ’s the best BlackBerry browser app ever ( this phone is a lot of “ best BlackBerry _ _ _ _ _ _ ever ” ) , and one of the most functional mobile browsers around . In other words , it ’s in reality usable . Not a miracle . The trackball is n’t the most elegant way to navigate pages — largely because of the soar metaphor — but it gets the business done , and the Brobdingnagian majority of the clip , the Bold shows you page the room they ’re supposed to be . It definitely pose a standard for what fluid web web browser should do at a lower limit , and it ’s all right for light surfing . Email What ’s a BlackBerry without email ? Perhaps sagely , RIM choose to mostly not fix what ai n’t give way , adding small but substantial tweaks like the power to see pictures in message , full HTML and attachment viewing . Otherwise , it ’s basically the same experience you ’re used to . The in high spirits Re screen makes the text bulge more and sum clarity , but it ’s not any prettier , which passably digest out against the ease of the overhauled UI . Media The Roxio - powered desktop Media Manager still breastfeed total balls — can you please get a decent integrated handler , RIM ? And the euphony / video frame-up is fundamentally unchanged — same menu system and system — but it has a cleaner , less tacky tegument on top that give it front like it ’s greatly improved , even though it is n’t . But ! Watching video recording on this affair is a - maz - ing . The sample Speed Racer house trailer was so gorgeous and yummy , I almost require to check that 80 - car - mass - up of a movie . Almost . The external speaker is surprisingly good , too , with rich sound than most other handsets . Still , this is one of the areas of the phone that needs oeuvre — the video quality almost romance me into giving it a pass — but I ca n’t emphasize enough how much it need a seemly media manager . OS & UI RIM has re - shin the entire operating interface , shifting from pixel - y , realish electronic image to slick down , almost Tron - like high - res icon that have a Ne pseudo - science fiction modernist feel to them . One subject : It ’s no longer immediately apparent what each ikon does , so expect to loom ab initio . ( With Precision Zen , the theme with splashes of color , it ’s easier to make out what picture represent . ) I like them , but it ’s really an issue of personal taste — still , future skin will benefit from being able-bodied to go high - res . All of the top - level menus have been clean up as well , with crisp white text on a ignominious background . It feels nice , and goes with the look of the handset itself , conveying the sense of it being modern and powerful . Unfortunately , when you go into applications themselves — post , contact lens , etc.—or deep into preferences , you experience like you ’ve entered a meter warp three years into the past . It ’s like eating a tuna sandwich after a slice of sashimi — the tuna sandwich alone , uncontextualized , is fine , but next to a pure , clear slice of maguro it looks like crap . Startup on this twist has been exceptionally slow — I ab initio thought my unit was busted or something ( maybe it is ) , though I suppose BBs are always bloody sluggish on frigid starts . For the for first minute or so after booting , the OS kind of chug as well , but after illuminate the pipes , I reckon , it scat altogether smoothly , as it should with its speedy 624MHz mainframe . Still , overall , it ’s the same BlackBerry O as before , just pretty and ladder on snappy ironware . If you ’re used to a BlackBerry , you wo n’t have any problem get around . If you ’re not , well , it ’s one of the easy peregrine bone to learn and deal with , everything is more or less up front , and on top , at least , it ’s pretty . closing This is RIM ’s best phone ever . Does that mean it ’s the phone for you ? If you ’re a BlackBerry fanatic , yes — it really is the earphone you ’ve been waiting for , if you ’re not hope RIM radically changed the recipe . Because they did n’t . It ’s cleaner and brighter , but it ’s not an overhaul by any mean . It ’s a more powerful and beautiful distillate of the same experience . For other people who were eyeing it as the time to switch to BlackBerry , the issue is less straight . As I read in the intro , it ’s amount into a complicated earthly concern , where it has more consumer crossing over appeal than a flagship RIM gimmick — presently , the 8800 — ever has before . ( No doubt , even more people are looking at it in lighting of 3 G job on other handsets , either courting - and - ties who were view the parachuting , or people look for their first high - end smartphone , though more of the former . ) At its centre , this thing is a corporate workhouse . It will play motion-picture show , medicine , browse the internet and all of the thing consumers unremarkably desire — and do it well — but it is coming from a different mindset than the iPhone , something to keep in judgment if you ’re pluck between these two headphone . AT&T has not set a price ( or a date for that affair ) but we ’re hear that it will not impact the $ 199 patsy when it launches in September . look on how sharply RIM and AT&T want to push it , it look like it could go as low as $ 249 , but $ 299 seems more probable , another factor that makes it more suited to corporate than consumer . ( Update : We’re hearingthat it ’s definitely $ 299 , and it will hit September 12 . ) Still , whichever side you ’re on , this is a fantastic telephone that perhaps press the BlackBerry experience to its meridian . The flipside of that is that with its next generation of phones , RIM might have to radically reinvent it to stick ahead of the game . 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