BlackBerry Bold 9000

BLACKBERRY BOLD 9000 REVIEW

Blackberry bold 9000 is a smartphone that gives you mobility, features and functionality with elegance and classy design. It can help you stay connected all the time and do your businesses work at any place. It’s a fully loaded mobile phone for internet savvy people who like to do their work on mobile phone when they are on the move. RIM has dramatically improved the looks of its devices in recent years, and the Bold is a new high point. Its rounded corners and leather-textured back make it somehow both professional and sexy. And the higher-resolution screen is great, too. The Bold has a 320-by-480-pixel display, which is at least twice the resolution of the earlier RIM models, like the Curve. This is a beautiful screen that makes everything you do with the Bold look great, but especially watching movies. And its 624 MHz processor is easily capable of handling any of the tasks I threw at it, always responding quickly. The BlackBerry Bold is the first model from RIM with HSDPA, the latest version of high-speed wireless networking used by GSM carriers. This is welcome news for AT&T customers, but isn't going to impress Verizon or Sprint users, as their BlackBerries have had equivalent data transfer speeds for a long time. But like I said, AT&T customers are going to enjoy a noticeable speed increase when accessing web sites. That said, if you're serious about web browsing you should install Opera Mini, which is much, much better. This smartphone is also one of the first from this company with Wi-Fi, which can be used to speed up your browsing when you're in range of a hotspot. What separates a smartphone from an ordinary mobile phone is good software. Fortunately, the BlackBerry Bold is well supplied with this. Like all RIM's models. this device supports push email. Messages can come from a company's BlackBerry Enterprise Server, but AT&T also offers a version of this service for consumers, too. One of the best new features is the bundled version of DataViz Documents To Go. This is a suite of applications for working with Microsoft Office files. It does a decent job of letting you see files in their original format, and edit them, too. It doesn't support all the formatting options Word does, but if you edit and re-save a document with formatting DocsToGo can't display, the unsupported formatting won't be affected. In the "Fun" category, this smartphone's HVGA display really shines when you're playing movies. I loaded up some MP4 files and they looked outstanding. So did the YouTube videos I checked out, and the same goes for the shows I watched on AT&T's Mobile Video service. The version of this device I'm testing has a 2.0 MPx camera, which is capable of taking decent pictures. It even includes an LED that tries to light up your subject, to make taking pictures in low-light situations a tiny bit better. A feature that encompasses both work and your personal use is GPS. If you're looking for decent, free navigation software, I recommend Google Maps. The client for BlackBerry is quite good, if a touch limited. The Bold's 1500 mAh battery is capable of getting through a day of heavy use, or three days of light to moderate use. Still, you can drain it faster by using some of the more power-draining features, like Wi-Fi and the GPS receiver. The BlackBerry Bold 9000 is easily the best-looking keyboard-based smartphone on the market, and the software it includes makes it the best BlackBerry yet.

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