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Expensive upgrade results in the most efficient hand-held smart phone
Steve Makris , The Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON – Can the new BlackBerry Bold push itself to the front of the line? The short answer is yes, for many reasons. It’s a BlackBerry and that means it looks cool — perhaps getting more attention than it should, given that it’s the most expensive phone from Rogers Wireless at $399.99 with a three-year contract.
The longer answer — if you’re thinking of getting one for yourself or bugging your boss for an upgrade — is that the Bold’s late arrival, the last in a summer-long parade of exotic smart phones, makes it a tougher sell for demanding consumers or new business customers.
Unquestionably, the Bold, from Waterloo, Ont.-based Research in Motion, is the new flagship in the BlackBerry family, with precision design, quality engineering and more over-the-top features than its siblings.
If you’re a longtime BlackBerry user like me, you will add the Bold to your must-have list. It simply is the most efficient one-handed e-mail, calendaring, tasking and phone device.
RIM’s arguably more thorough security and management administration software for corporations is based on an added cost-per-user licence.
Even though the iPhone supports Microsoft Exchange for company e-mails, it still lacks the e-mail tools the BlackBerry offers and is too glitzy and untried for most company IT managers.
I’ve used the Bold for the past few weeks, at home and while travelling. Here’s what I like and what I don’t.
What I like w The 480 x 320 pixel screen, half that of a 15-inch computer monitor, is crammed into a brilliant window with almost invisible dots. Pictures and movies look like they’re being seen on a miniature HD TV screen, and you can use smaller fonts, cramming more lines on your e-mail view. Only the Telus HTC Touch Diamond screen is sharper.
- The computer-like Internet HTML viewing experience is a big improvement. If your eyesight is good, you can read a full-view web page. One click on the trackball enlarges the view for scrolling around the page, while the cursor automatically senses clickable links and text windows to start typing in. Not as sexy as the iPhone finger sweeping experience, but the next best thing, with a keyboard advantage for typing and dozens of one-key shortcuts.
- It’s loaded with GPS, WiFi and the newest Bluetooth version for wireless stereo headphones — and it’s 3.5G-network compatible. Accessing e-mails and websites was twice as fast on Rogers’ high-speed network, where available, compared to the older EDGE network.
- It boasts very clean desktop graphics, and its ability to run different programs at the same time now includes simultaneous dual-transfer mode for talking on the phone, opening e-mail, instant messaging, Internet browsing and downloading attachments and videos all at the same time.
- The classy leatherette black back can be replaced with different colours, and the chrome edge adds class and sturdiness.
- The full QWERTY keyboard is the best yet, with larger, more solid keys and just the right pressure when typing.
- The music player has better controls, including a good selection of headphone tone settings, and the sound of the built-in speaker is incredibly spacious. You can shoot movies and the MicroSD memory slot (for up to eight-GB cards) is accessible from the side. It comes with one GB of internal memory — lots if you just do text stuff.
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