With the release of the BlackBerry 9000 Bold, BlackBerry has made the move from a brand that benefited utilitarian needs to one that has the design and features of many high-class cell phones. Naturally, the ability to remotely access email is still the defining feature of this unlocked Blackberry, but the improved user interface and QWERTY keyboard make this version an absolute joy to use.

In the past month I have switched from my iPhone 3Gs to the Blackberry Bold and back again to the iPhone 3Gs….and frankly, I love them both and hate them both…but the iPhone won out…Here’s why, and what do you think?

My number one gripe about the iPhone has always been the touch keyboard. I just plain old hate it. I more than hate it, I abhor it with every ounce of my being. I’m not new to iPhones — I’ve used them since the first incarnation two years ago — I can get 50 wpm out of my blackberry keyboard — even after years of using the iPhone, I still get only 17 wpm at best, and that filled with typing errors and spelling problems.

During a recent trip to Paris, the iPhone 3GS battery didn’t even last the 8 hour flight — listening to 2 albums and playing Boggle for 15 minutes ran the battery down from 98% to 14%. Unacceptable. The problems started with the 3.1 update, and are driving me insane with how bad the battery life is. Apple is apparently aware of it, so let’s hope for a patch soon : http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/09/20/apple-seeking-info-iphone-31-users-reporting-poor-battery-li

I’ve always been a Blackberry lover, and the Bold is just so amazing…it’s like the Cadillac of phones…so after the iPhone problems, I had decided that was enough — it would be my iPod and game machine, and I would go back to a “real phone”…

OOH, that keyboard — instantly in love, and back to 50 wpm typing texts and e-mails…but then the problems just become glaring: limited applications; not enough memory on the Bold to store even a handful of those apps anyway; the lockups long familiar to BB users…

So there I was…back to the iPhone, despite the awful battery and touchscreen typing problems.

Blackberry Bold Pros and Cons:

Pros–

• Far superior keyboard, real qwerty depress-the-keys, great feel and response
• Great size and “feel” in the hands — overall the best Blackberry ever made
• Good trackball and homepage layout
• Better phone features overall
• Easier texting and e-mail
• Built-in office features to read and edit word, excel, powerpoint
• Ability to store files natively on BB rather than web servers
• Better graphics/screen (no kidding — really — look at them side by side)
• Removable microSD card slot means you can have several of them and carry lots of data
• Removable battery so that you can have a spare
• Can stream Slingmedia tv from home over 3G or wireless

Cons–

• Have to remove battery to reset
• Insufficient built-in memory — four downloads and you are scraping bottom
• Limited applications, and those are not as elegant as the iPhone’s
• Terrible sync with mac — there is a leaked version of the blackberry sync for mac if you search for it, but it’s still not up to snuff
• neither PocketMac nor Missing Sync works correctly for mac syncing
• crashes occasionally , especially when accessing files or programs on the memory card
• Unreliable overnight — sometimes freezes up and alarms don’t go off in the morning (this is an ongoing problem with all blackberries, not just the Bold)
• idiosyncratic menus and many clicks necessary to achieve simple features

iPhone Pros and Cons:

Pros–

• Sleek build, built like a tank
• Myriad applications
• Excellent sync with Mac through iTunes
• Much better for media – movies, music, games
• Threaded texting
• Just added MMS
• The excellent ability to use Bento II databases and quickly share and edit on desktop or iPhone (no equivalent on BB)
• Visual voicemail
• Larger screen for watching movies or playing games

Cons–

• That terrible touchscreen keyboard — hate it, hate it, hate it
• Much slower for texting, e-mailing
• Can not use SlingMedia without WiFi connection making it worthless — this is a huge bone of contention for me, since I want to be able to see the tv broadcast while at football or baseball games
• Apple/ATT have far too much control over what you can/can not do with the iPhone — lately, this looks to be more of an ATT problem than an Apple problem
• No ability to natively store word, excel files on the iPhone — although you can now access the to some degree using programs like QuickOffice — but it is a very poor substitute
• Terrible battery life — and I mean terrible — perhaps an update will fix this down the road, since Apple is aware of the problem following the 3.1 update — does not last the night on an overnight flight
• Battery can not be consumer replaced; i.e. can’t carry a spare in the messenger bag: add-on external chargers are very expensive ($299 plus)
• Multiple taps necessary to access texting and e-mail rather than BB’s easier interface for communications features
• MMS, though now activated, is already overloaded and basically doesn’t work

In general?….If you are looking for the best business/enterprise phone available, go for the Blackberry Bold. If you want any ability to use decent media and applications, get the iPhone….If you need a bit of both, you are really screwed since neither fully meets the needs…

I’m not the only one with the BB/iPhone dilemma — so thought I would post my frustrations and see what others have to say. For now I’m back to the iPhone 3GS, but I’m certainly not wedded to it. I do refuse to try anything but BB or Apple, so don’t comment on windows mobile phones, Android, or the rest….if you comment, keep this to the iPhone vs Blackberry debate only please. I won’t approve the others.

The obsession of mobile phone among today’s youth can be recognized by the fact that every youth considers it a fashion statement to behold elegant handset in hands. Blackberry 9000 Bold is a solid design that offers colossal multimedia features for users.  The basic color scheme offered for this handset is black.

Blackberry 9000 Bold

Battery description

The Blackberry Bold mobile phone acquires the standard lithium battery with the amperage of 1500 mAh. Standby time offered by this device is of 310 hours and total talk time provided by the handset is of 5 hours.

Camera Feature

The Blackberry 9000 Bold mobile phone is equipped with a camera of 2 mega pixel that provides the pictures with the resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels. The flash technology offered enhances the picture capturing experience; a secondary camera is also facilitated for making video calls.

The customers can easily find any location over the globe by Blackberry Mobile maps provided by this handset. A document viewer is also provided that enables the users to create, alter or modify the document files thereby providing significant help to the office going consumers.

Games

• Various exhilarating and thrilling games are embedded in the phone; the users can also download new games from the internet by using Java based applications. Inbuilt speaker helps to make the mobile hands free and enables the customers to attend the call even when driving the car.
• The users can also send the voice messages to nearer ones by utilizing the facility of Voice memo provided by the device. A media player is also supported that provides the file formats of mp3, AAC+ and WMA player.
• The video player equipped in the phone supports the file formats like 3gp, Divx and WMV player. The patrons can also make photo calls by using the photo call facility provided by the handset.
• A significant option of organizer is also made available that contains various utility options useful in the daily life. The alarm clock will keep you punctual while calculator helps to make the necessary calculations. 
•  For ensuring the fast data transfer various recently invented technologies have been acquired by the phone like wireless Bluetooth technology, HSDPA and EDGE technique.

RIM’s Blackberry 9000 Bold is a decent and gorgeous mobile phone which comes with a large colour screen complete with a full QWERTY keyboard. BlackBerry 9000 is a business-oriented smart phone that intends to offer its users a complete email solution.  You can send and receive email directly as well as the phone supports instant messages service which allows the users to communicate with other contacts. You can send, receive, forward & edit text messaging & picture multimedia messages on your 3G smart phone.  

Blackberry 9000 Bold

Besides these, it is providing handsfree speaker, Document viewer, Blackberry Maps, Organizer, Blackberry Operating system and many more business oriented features as well as other noticeable features.  

• Its screen is large 2.6 inches in size with premium screen clarity and a 480 x 320 pixel screen resolution. Its total weight is 133 grams.  

• It’s having good 128MB of flash memory plus it is expandable up to 8GB using MicroSD or MicroSDHC. A rechargeable battery will provide approximately 5 hours of Talk time and up to 310 hours of Stand-by time. 

• Bold is incorporated with fabulous 2 MP camera with LED flash, video-recording capabilities, viewfinder display and much more. 

• You will never be lost it as this advanced 3G smart phone comes with a built-in global positioning system known as GPS which supports BlackBerry® Maps™ which provides you with step by step directions to your destination. 

• The media player is supportive of numerous audio and video formats, including MP3, WMA, AAC, DivX4, and WMV3 files, and the phone is equipped with a 3.5mm headphone jack as well. 

• This 3G mobile phone comes furnished with GPRS, EDGE technology and WLAN Wi-Fi, 3G HSDPA plus a USB and Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP are also provided. The most enchanting feature is HTML browser which delivers high-speed browsing. It also integrates a 624 MHz Marvell processor.

• The phone embeds with a Quad band technology which covers GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 & GSM 1900 networks. 

On the conclusion

So, we can say that Rim has been succeed to understand the need of business people and has made a device which can give the users a complete and useful business device.

The Blackberry 9000 Bold are available on network :  Blackberry 9000 O2 and Blackberry 9000 Orange.

There is no dearth of business mobile phones in the market, but the problem which a buyer generally encounters is how to choose the best one out of many. Many come and stick at the point of Blackberry 9000 Bold which is a stylishly made business phone. The moment your eyes pass by it, its conjuring look will catch hold of your sight. Not only this much, Blackberry 9000 Bold also offers you plenty of attractive features which a business phone is required to have. 

Some of the attractive features which make reasons for buying Blackberry 9000 Bold are as follows: 

Blackberry 9000 Bold

• Blackberry Bold is a gorgeous 3G phone which holds up a QWERTY keyboard together with a screen of 480 x 320 pixels resolution and thereby you can enjoy the finest clarity.

• It comes with an attractive black casing with the hue of chrome touch. So possessing one like this would really attribute greatly to the buyer.

• Blackberry 9000 Bold works on BlackBerry® operating system and the dimension of this handset is 14mm x 66mm x 114mm and it is 133 grams in weight.

• It comes with inbuilt memory of 128 megabytes, but you can store more on the memory slot expandable up to 8 GB.

• This handset offers you to enjoy the beats of music even at the time of traveling by means of a music player which is of integrated sort making use of Blackberry® media synchronization.

• It comes with 2 mega pixel camera with flash and it also has auto controls which help you get the best possible video coverage and images. You can also share these images and videos with others like friends by making use of the mms option.

• Moreover Blackberry 9000 Bold has several other features like long battery backup, GPS with BlackBerry® Maps™, 624 MHz processor along with HSDPA network, EDGE and GPRS technology.

The exuberance in features makes Blackberry 9000 Bold a handset worth buying. So if you are thinking of buying a business phone, this handset may be an ideal choice for you. The Blackberry 9000 Deals are available Network on O2, Orange, Vodafone, Tmobile, three.

You may not notice that the great smart phone, Blackberry Bold, model number 9000, drops its price rapidly. I just checked its pay monthly price, the cheapest line rental now is only £15 per month on 18 month contract.
For such a high-profile mobile phone, you cannot expect its price to drop further, normally, it will be out of market when the providers cannot get any profits.
Here are the full deals list of Blackberry Bold 9000 from uk’s leading mobile phone providers.

For empowering the passion of young generation and to express their style, blackberry has introduced this Blackberry 9000 Bold Smartphone. It showcases an elegant and cool design without compromising the functionality of handset that one expects from this premier quality handset.

Multimedia functions

Blackberry 9000 Bold

The fun is always with in your control with this Blackberry 9000 phone. Media player integrated in the mobile phone allows playing the music and video files in rich sound and vivid colors. For enjoying music, Bluetooth stereo wireless headphones are also supplied along with. Also while listening to your favorite playlist, one can shuffle songs and reply to messages. Other tempting feature is its Blackberry media Sync that makes it possible to transfer the media files from desktop to handset. This smart phone also facilitates its customers with the utility of external SDHC card so that they can get more space for storing. Users are also free to incorporate the feature of blackberry remote stereos gateways so that they can carry music anywhere with the unique phone.

File editing features

With the options “slide show to go” and “Word to go”, the users can work on PowerPoint presentations and can create word documents. All options are there like copying, pasting, formatting the document and many more. The striking LCD display makes the experience much better.

Mobile streaming

The streaming capabilities of this 9000 Deals handset are designed intelligently so that one can listen to streamed music and watch online videos. If anyone intends to shop online, this handset will provide it. Only with few clicks, information stored in the handset can be easily retrieved to fill online forms for shopping online. Several streaming websites have been also supported by this mobile phone that makes it possible to access videos, music, news clips and even sports.

Is the answer out there? Probably not.

Like a jockey tending a football goal, this blog’s web presence is fairly pathetic. Therefore, anyone having arrived here looking for a definitive answer to the question above must have literally trawled through the entire internet. Well, welcome to my take and congratulations on putting up with what must be one of the web’s all time most frustrating searches; every page hit inevitably turns into an entirely inconclusive slanging match between iPhone and Blackberry users. I can’t guarantee this will satisfy you any further, but I’ll try.

I have been in the (perhaps) fortunate position of having run both an iPhone 3G and a Blackberry Bold for the last few months. The latter is used exclusively for my day job, the former an exuberant take on the personal mobile. I say exuberant, as no one on this planet needs an iPhone. I don’t. I am, however, an unashamed member of the brainwashed majority Apple’s marketing leviathan has successfully captured and, via it’s frustratingly alluring e-shot and TV campaign, continued to kick seven bells out of.

So which one is better? Which one should you go out today and buy? Sorry, I’m not sure.

Let’s start with the all important function. Telephony. When all is said and done, these things are phones. They both allow you to make and receive calls and text messages. Sound quality on both is acceptable (why this is ever discussed, I’ll never know – I’ve never come across a phone I can’t hear the other person on and I certainly don’t expect to hear them in DTS Master-encoded 7.1 surround sound). They both store a practically limitless number of contacts with all the information you’ll ever need attached to them. The Blackberry even allows you to store their pager number – do they still exist?

Next: email. Now, any Blackberry aficionado will fall over themselves to tell you how it is the best platform in the universe for mobile email. It’s good, I’ll give them that. But we’re talking emails, here. Strings of text we send people. It’s not hard to get right. The iPhone is a good match for the Blackberry. Both offer integration with Exchange server and both will happily set themselves up with your Gmail or the majority of the other web-based email services. I honestly could use either device for email. Some may favour the Blackberry’s tactile ‘real’ keyboard, but the iPhone’s virtual one is surprisingly easy to get used to. Once again, email is such a simple area and I genuinely do not understand the fuss made over the way each device implements it. People who place significant importance on the ability to file emails, set up multiple redirects, and various other usually desktop-based routines, can’t have much to do while out and about. I receive, send and occasionally forward emails. Both devices meet this need.

Music. Right, we’re getting somewhere interesting now. Whether we like it or not – and I am one of the many who simply does not understand the youth of today’s obsession with playing music out loud from their phone while walking down the street – music is a significant element of mobile phones these days. And you can see why; it’s a great way to reduce the amount of technical paraphernalia you have to carry about with you. The iPhone wins this bout hands down. It’s also an iPod. Granted, iPod’s are only ‘good’ by default, but we’ve learned to live with that fact for years. I haven’t even bothered trying the music functionality of the Blackberry. I just don’t care.

‘Apps’. Yet another Apple-influenced phrase we must all adopt for the traditionally phrased: ‘applications’. As I have written in previous posts, the iPhone’s App Store is at times fascinating and genuinely useful. There is, however, an awful lot of guff you end up downloading and eventually deleting. I find several apps very useful for blogging, Twitter, Facebook and Ebay, but that’s about as far as it stems. Use your shiny iPhone to level up a sawdust-ridden shelf? No thanks.

Blackberry’s ‘App World’ has only recently emerged and I’ve literally had a go with it for about five minutes. Very intuitive from what I saw, and draws heavily on the iPhone equivalent (why wouldn’t it?).

So, in summary (if you’re still reading this, thanks), if you are an Apple addict like myself, want to get rid of the iPod/phone combo and aren’t too fussed about looking a little bit of a dick every time you put your phone to your ear, get the iPhone. If, however, you are put off by the iPhone’s uncanny ability to be mentioned in 95% of all conversations and music is of little interest to you while out and about, get the Blackberry.

So there you have it. Sorry. I can point you in the direction of Google for the next stage of your search for an answer, if you like. Try a different search term. You never know, there may be a blog out there less known than mine with the definitive answer on it.

The ROKR E6 is a dual-band GSM and GPRS phone with a 2.4-inch, 256k-color QVGA (240×320) touch-screen and a stylus interface, instead of the standard numeric keypad in the candy bar form factor of the earlier ROKR.

The phone runs and dumps iTunes, favoring RealPlayer, and can play back MP3, WMA, MPEG-4, AAC, RealAudio, WAV, video and photos. Finally, Motorola has added an FM radio in the phone, so the Indian audience won’t be left complaining! Also, the ROKR has a convenient 3.5mm stereo jack so you can use your own headphones without being restricted to the ones provided with the handset. If wires don’t rock your boat, there’s always Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP stereo support for wireless headset.

There’s also a 2-megapixel digital camera with business-card and barcode recognition, a Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint document and PDF viewer. There is fast USB 2.0 connectivity for transferring music.

The device has only 8mb of phone memory, but takes in SD memory cards going up to 2GB. The choice of SD memory cards is both surprising, because Motorola has been mostly going with the smaller microSD/TransFlash lately. Fortunately, existing users of other Motorola (or Samsung) phones with microSD cards will be able to use their cards using an SD adapter in the new ROKR E6.

There is no launch date for the phone yet, and neither is there a price, but judging by the price of the MOTOMING A1200, the ROKR E6 won’t cost you any limbs.

Trang tin Boygeniusreport vừa đưa lên một tài liệu mà họ cho là tài liệu mật nói về những thông số, chức năng của BlackBerry dòng mới 9000. Theo tài liệu này thì BlackBerry 9000 với hệ điều hành 4.6 đã vượt xa những BlackBerry hiện tại về các tính năng Internet, hỗ trợ truyền thông đa phương tiện…

Giao diện mặc định của BlackBerry 9000 với màu, đen và trắng mờ thực sự sang trọng. BlackBerry 9000 được dự đoán là sẽ tưng ra vào quý 3 năm nay và sẽ là át chủ bài của BlackBerry trong nửa cuối năm 2008.

Giá: 9.800.000 Đ

Liên lạc: I love BlackBerry shop (Dương – 0166. 89.100.98)

* Một số tính năng:
- Mạng: GSM 850/900/1800/1900
- Kích thước: 114 x 66 x 14mm
- Trọng lượng: 133 gam
- Màn hình 65k mầu, 480 x 320 pixels, camera 2.0Mp, 1600 x 1200 pixels, video, Flash
- Bàn phím Qwerty full, trackball navigation, wallpaper
- Kiểu chuông: Đa âm sắc, Mp3
- Rung: Có
- Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh
- Lưu trong máy: Cuộc gọi đi, gọi đến, gọi lỡ nhiều..
- Hỗ trợ: thẻ nhớ micro SD có thể upto lên đến 8Gb, bộ nhớ trong 128Mb, chip 624 MHz.
- Tin nhắn: SMS/MMS/Email
- Trình duyệt: HTML
- Java: Có
- GPRS: Class 10, 32 – 48 kbps
- HSCSD:Không
- EDGE: Có
- Hông ngoại: Không
- Bluetooth: Có, v2.0 with A2DP
- Wiffi: Có, 802.11 a/b/g
- 3G: Có
- Games: Có, có thể tải thêm
- Gps: Có
- Blackberry map: Có
- Media: Nghe nhạc Mp3, AAC, AAC+
Organizer
- Calculator
- Voice dial
- Built-in handsfree
- Voice memo
- Pin chuẩn: Li-Ion 1500 mAh, lên 310h, lên tới 5h.

MobiFrance ha effettuato la recensione del nuovo BlackBerry Bold…

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In ”casa” di Luca Viscardi è arrivato dopo un lunga attesa il nuovo BlackBerry , il Bold con brand TIM…ecco le prime impressioni e galleria immagini a confronto con iPhone e Pearl …

L’ho preso con grande entusiasmo, che però si è abbastanza affievolito dopo poche ore. Intendiamoci, il prodotto è bellissimo…

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Fonte:LucaViscardi