Be Bold.

[claidheamhmor]

I was given a Blackberry Bold 9000 at work last week, as an upgrade to my Blackberry Curve 8310 that I was given in January.

Wow, it's quite a difference. Nominally, the Bold is better in that it has 3G and wi-fi capabilities. Practically speaking, it's much improved: the 3G is certainly better than GPRS for downloading apps, but the major difference is in how the phone responds - it's far snappier, and does things far more quickly. Application loading is quicker, and switching between apps, and just generally even moving the cursor. The Curve, I'd found, got quite bogged down when running 4-6 simultaneous apps, and it would lag and even hang for periods of time. The Bold doesn't do that - at least, not with the roughly 9 or so simultaneous apps I've tried running.

The one downside I can think of with the Bold is that the camera is the same rather poor 2MP device as on the Curve. Blackberry cameras really need some improvement.

The Bold's screen is lovely too. It's not physically huge, but with a 480x320 resolution, it's very clear and sharp. Very pleasant. I like the piano-black face, chrome edging, and the faux-leather back on the Bold; it looks both stylish and professional.

Migrating to the Bold from the Curve was remarkably easy. The Blackberry PC software has a "Device Switch Wizard" which lets you migrate from one Blackberry (or some other phones) to a Blackberry. I ran it, and it copied all my data over, and all my settings, even down to my ringtone choices, wallpapers, applications, the whole works. Absolutely amazing. All I had to do was activate the new one on the Blackberry Enterprise Server at work, and I was in action. I did have to go and recreate my wallpapers, but that was only because the screen resolution differs between the Curve and Bold. There are a bunch of decent third-party themes for the Bold; I'm currently running one called "Iphone4" which has a nice selection of iPhone-like icons.

The Bold doesn't fit my old phone-holder in the car, so my project for this weekend is to get a new, wider one mounted.

Very cool phone.

Comments

[ihlanya.livejournal.com]

Geek.

[melancthe.livejournal.com]

Nerd.

[ihlanya.livejournal.com]

Heh!

*smocches*

[ereneth.livejournal.com]

Looks like an iPhone...
Just not as sexy...

[claidheamhmor]

Yup, the iPhone certainly has sexy wrapped up. I do have iPhone icons though - does that count? :) iPhone wouldn't be of much use to me though, except as a nice (and expensive) toy.

[windrider-09.livejournal.com]

Nice device

[polymale.livejournal.com]

Heh, neat phone!!

When I return back to school, I'll get me something like that I hope :)

(probably a palm pre successor)