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By S. fraser (boro uk)
absolutely brilliant phone looks great excellent mp3 powerful internet as you would expect - its a high spec phone........apart from the camera oh dear oh dear its utter total rubbish and completely lets the whole thing down i havent managed to take a single decent photo with it yet.
5 stars for the phone - zero stars for the camera
By B & H (UK)
We chose this for its excellent keyboard and screen and have not been disappointed. We bought it SIM-free so that we would be free to travel without incurring costly roaming charges.
We are using it with a 3 (UK) PAYG SIM, and use as a phone (calls and texts) has been completely straightforward. However, much of the internet-related software (email, web browsing, etc) is tailored for use with a Blackberry phone contract, and it has sometimes been difficult to find out how to use the phone without such a contract. What we have found is that the built-in browser works well over WiFi (and in the absence of a phone signal this can be used for Gmail), while the Opera browser, the Gmail app and Google Maps (all of which can easily be downloaded from the internet) work fine through our PAYG SIM. (Incidentally, the 150MB "free" mobile data allowance which 3 provide for each top-up, expiring after 90 days, has so far proved to be easily sufficient for our purposes.)
Surprisingly, given Blackberry's reputation for quality, there have been one or two niggles with the built-in software. Most notably, text entry in the Blackberry Browser is fiddly because word-wrap does not work so each paragraph appears as one long line scrolling off the edge of the screen.
By A. Palmer
I brought this phone sim-free in order to see if going back to a physical keyboard would ease my continuing annoyance of using the iPhones virtual keys.
Having been an iphone user from day 1 (i use macs, so it was a natural purchase), i still find difficulties with the compatibility of the iphones virtual keys and my sausage fingers!
The 9000 is an awsome phone, and does exactly what it says on the tin. If you are a current BB user looking to upgrade, then this is surely the way forward for you.
The UI is very good, very clean, and easy to navigate your way around. I used to use a BB before the iphone came along (pearl), and what i've seen from the Bold is very impressive and a huge improvement over previous models (especially in UI, Email etc). The screen is beautiful, and photographs look fantastic. The keyboard is nice and solid, and is much less error prone than the virtual keyboards of touchscreens.
If you're a BB user wanting to upgrade, this is certainly for you!! If you're an iphone user thinking of return to a solid keyboard, or thinking BB or Apple, then see below for my own experiences and opinions. I'm trying to avoid sounding like im bigging the iphone up here, so will concentrate on the main feature vs feature and exclude the screen/touch, because you already know the difference there.
Firstly, my use of my iphone and BB before it were mainly text and emails, which as explained is my main reason for wanting to switch back to BB, so, first of all.....
The Keyboard - the main reason i wanted to switch back, but, i probably have worse issues with the BB's keyboard than with the virtual one of the iphone. The 9000 is just a touch too wide to enable comfortable one handed typing. Additionally, i type mails and sms in two languages, on the BB this is acheived by going into the menus, switching language input, then using the trackball simultainiously with key inputs to achieve special charachters. This is not the case on the iphone and other VK's as holding your finger over a key reveals a drag list of characters associated with other languages. One keyboard does all!! So, the keyboard and input spoils to the the iPhone, and its touchscreen rivals.
SMS/Email - while this is the BB's biggest asset, i'm afraid that going into menus to write new mails etc makes it more time consuming. However, i think in this department, both phones are evenly matched.
Photo/video/multimedia viewing - hands down, the iphone takes this. The BB does have a huge 1gb on board memory, but taking a second or so just to load thumbnails (2 seconds to load full screen jpegs), is a shocker. Plus, you have to go back into the menus to navigate to the next photo in the folder! iphone all the way
GPS/Maps/navigation - no contest - iphone wins
Contacts and calendars - another big historical asset of BB, however, its simple and plain GI and endless menu entering hands this function to the iphone.
I won't drag this on too much! Those are the main features (for me anyway) covered, and you guys probably all ready know that these are totally different beasts anyway, hence just covering the main features.
My poor simcard must be very upset with being moved around, but i can now feel sure its permanent residence will be my 13 month old iphone 3g. As for the shiny new Bold 9000 - i'm afraid its next public appearence will be on a certain auction site!
By Watch Collector
Watch it playing a video or play an mp3 track and you'll be able to tell the quality of this thing. Very good phone, reliable and solid feel to it also. Not exactly iPhone killer but far more serious as a business phone but can do more as well!! Buy one!! Now!!
By Island Living (London, UK)
Well obviously one of the best things about this phone is that you can play Brickbreaker without constant crashes and freezes and on a much bigger screen than most Blackberries. Yes, the horribly-named Bold has a screen that's 25 per cent bigger than the one on the 8800 (it measures 60mm x 40mm against 50mm x 38 mm on the older phone). It's not only bigger but much clearer and brighter and really very enjoyable to use.
Another thing: you get more buttons. The Bold has two short-cut buttons - one on each side - while the 8800 only has one. You can customize them to get quickly to the function you use most often. It's an example of the great feature you can find on this and any Blackberry that you won't on the iPhone; you can change lots of things about the way the phone operates.
The keyboard. It's another thing about the Bold that is a pleasure to use. It doesn't feel or look any bigger than the one on the 8800 but it does feel a little easier and more enjoyable to use. It's a shame the numbered keys are so hard to see clearly but you soon get used to knowing where they are.
Battery life however does not compare too well with the 8800. The Bold has more technology on board such as WiFi and the battery level drops steadily regardless of whether or not you're making calls. Maybe the trick is to turn off WiFi which in any case doesn't seem to present any immediate dazzling advantages. However the whole business of keeping the phone charged is made so much easier because it's done via a USB connector. That means you can re-charge it from a laptop or a number of portable power devices such as the Kensington battery pack.
The one very irritating feature of the Blackberry is how long it takes to go through all the menu changes to put the phone on voicemail. It actually takes 14 actions to do this which seems unbelievably clunky for such a sophisticated device. Why does it have to be so complicated?
But of course the real reason for buying a Blackberry is managing email and there is no doubt that the Bold is a superb way to deal with your mail on the move. The screen is clear and easy to read in any conditions and the software works better than on any other phone. You can also open Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF documents.
The Bold has to be close to the ultimate personal communication device currently available. It's not as much fun as an iPhone but that's not the point; it's a working tool that is a pleasure to use and does most things extremely well.
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