So far so good with my BlackBerry Bold
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Well I must admit to a bit of "Xmas Morning" excitement when the Bold arrived from O2 in its cool black box. So what are my first impressions after a few days use?
So what has been the downside of the Bold? Well I have yet to run into any of the software issues that I have heard about. My only gripe is that Google Maps won't load, its some sort of bug that freezes the load after about 10% and according to several BlackBerry sites other Bold users have had his problem too.
Overall then a good experience with the Bold so far.
I see that elsewhere a Mr Ed Brill of IBM Lotus has also commented on his new Bold, you can see that here.
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Well I must admit to a bit of "Xmas Morning" excitement when the Bold arrived from O2 in its cool black box. So what are my first impressions after a few days use?
- The device itself does look smart, its slightly larger than my old Pearl but not that bulky and I use the same holster for it.
- I like the clear and sharp screen. I also like the "white etched out of black" UI design - the clock is my favourite example.
- The full keyboard was easy to use even with my "sausage fingers" mainly due to some clever contouring on the keys. While the trackball is precise and bounces from item to item very smoothly.
- Setting up my Domino mail was straightforward, as was getting Sametime up and running. For Sametime we used the 8800 Client and just a little tweak on the port used.
- The UI has quite a few icons amongst several folders so I reshuffled them to help usability. I just moved icons about to make sure that Mail, SMS Messages (its a separate box), Calendar, Browser, Sametime and Keyboard Lock are always shown first.
- In the office I use WiFi while outside its shifts to GPRS. No usage problems with either route, and the transition between them is pretty seamless.
- Battery life has been good - I can leave it over the weekend between recharges. No different to the Pearl really.
- The browser is much improved over the Pearl, and the camera is not bad (though we took the attached image with another Bold - of course that could be the craftsman not the tool!).
- Crucially it now comes with 4 games preloaded - our old friend BrickBreaker plus WordMole, Texas Hold'em, Sudoko and Klondike. My rail journeys will fly by.
So what has been the downside of the Bold? Well I have yet to run into any of the software issues that I have heard about. My only gripe is that Google Maps won't load, its some sort of bug that freezes the load after about 10% and according to several BlackBerry sites other Bold users have had his problem too.
Overall then a good experience with the Bold so far.
I see that elsewhere a Mr Ed Brill of IBM Lotus has also commented on his new Bold, you can see that here.
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Posted by Gavin Bollard At 20:42:34 On 03/11/2008 | - Website - |
Thanks very much for the tip.
I went to the page you suggested and used the Bold's own browser to get to { Link } - and this time it worked perfectly, downloaded and installed fine.
It does work really nicely. The satellite images look great and it seems to operate more smoothly than the Pearl.
Mike
Posted by Mike Smith At 10:28:39 On 04/11/2008 | - Website - |