Review – Blackberry Bold

The Bold’s Design
The number 1 thing you discover once you take the Bold out of its box is its pretty wide width–but this does allow for a full QWERTY keyboard and a broad screen. The Bold’s keyboard is good. Its keys are well spaced and they are raised at one so you can easily differentiate between each one.

The Bold’s screen is also amazingly clear. RIM mentioned that the Bold acquired its name during user testing, when numerous users commented how “bold” the screen appeared. The screen is ideal for watching videos , surfing the internet and reading emails.

For ease of navigation, there is  trackball which a few users like although other people found fiddly. It does work well and when you become accustomed to it operation, it can make navigating  through the menu very straightforward.

Key Features
The Bold features  HSDPA and Wi-Fi, offering high-speed electronic mail and Internet access virtually everywhere you go, and  the onboard GPS is pretty useful to find out where you and current surroundings.
The setup email is reasonably straightforward.  If  you’re not going to use it to access your company email, you are able to use BlackBerry Internet Service to setup a assortment of email accounts, including Microsoft Exchange. The Bold’s Internet web browser is easy to use, rendering pages in a desktop format, altho it doesn’t support Flash.
The GPS works well  outdoors, but not that great when you’re indoors. You can use BlackBerry Maps, which lets you do useful things such as sending your location to your friends. GoogleMaps also work with the Bold’s GPS.

The Bold has a  a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, meaning you can use your own normal headphones with it.  The music player is basic, but supports most  formats and is its usage is  satisfactory.
THe Bold’s 2 megapixel camera  didn’t take good day or night shots. It does have a LED flash, but didn’t work very well  us at night . It’s ok if you just need to take the odd snap to send to your friends over MMS, but not particularly great at taking high quality pictures.

The Bold’s Performance
The Bold is a huge improvement over older BlackBerries and combined with a fast processor (624MHz), offers a really great user experience. You feel like it is delivering the sort of power you expect from a smart phone–there is no issues with performing normal activities such as surfing the internet, surfing the internet  or using applications.
The Bold has a very loud speaker and works very well as  a hands-free or conference calls.

The Bold’s battery life is estimated to be  at around 10 days standby and around 4 hours talk time.

Conclusion
If you’re a existing  BlackBerry user, you will certainly be interested in looking at  the Bold. Ordinary users after a easy to use smartphone with a great screen and a keyboard will probably be interested too!