BlackBerry Bold

Editor's Review of the Bold

Lightweight and slim for a customary PC-like smartphone, the Blackberry Bold measures 114 x 66 x 14 millimetres and weighs 133 grams. The smartphone is clad in a black casing, designed with chrome edges that give it the edgy and classy look. The Blackberry Bold has a user interface that is characterized by a QWERTY keyboard, plus a trackball control located at the mobile phone's centre part, for navigation purposes.

The chic Blackberry Bold offers quality viewing through its large display screen that displays 65,000 colours in a 480 x 320-pixel resolution. The Blackberry Bold has a wide range of picture wallpapers users to select from. Various sound alerts and ringtones in polyphonic and MP3 formats and are also offered by the Blackberry Bold, to effectively reflect its owner's personality.

Running on the BlackBerry operating system, the Blackberry Bold smartphone operates under a 624-MHz processor. The smartphone also integrates, as its bonus feature, the BlackBerry Maps, which is built with a universal positioning system technically called GPS. The Blackberry Maps is meant to provide directions to a user's destination, and is one of the most sought-after characteristics that contemporary mobile phones are known for. In addition, the stylish Blackberry Bold runs under a quadband network supported by GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900.

As a modern mobile phone, Internet connection is stress-free with the 3G technology of the Blackberry Bold, complete with high-speed network of HSDPA, which, as users attest, aids in making user browsing and surfing on the Internet very convenient. The Blackberry Bold users can utilize the internal Web browser, which offers its user an on-device HTML Web experience.

The Blackberry Bold offers connectivity options through its Wi-Fi system, as well as support for Bluetooth A2DP, USB storage, GPRS and EDGE. These features allow the Blackberry Bold to transfer various file types from and to compatible devices.

Mainly, the messaging services supported by the Blackberry Bold include text messaging or SMS, multimedia messaging. Owing to Internet connectivity via the Blackberry Bold, the 3G smartphone supports email clients and instant messaging services, allowing users to enjoy mobile online communication in a pocket-size device. Notably, the modern handset also allows users to view files, as if looking at them from a computer, through its document viewer feature.

One of the Blackberry Bold's pride features is its built-in 2-Megapixel camera, which allows its user to not only to capture still photos, but to shoot, playback and stream videos. Quality pictures and videos are produced from the Blackberry Bold, as the camera is complete with flash features and video settings with dedicated controls, including a viewfinder display.

Though essentially a business phone, the Blackberry Bold offers entertainment to its users with its high quality music player. Through the built-in audio player, the Blackberry Bold users can create playlists of their favourite tunes. Through the Blackberry Bold's media synchronisation capability, users can transfer iTunes audio files from the desktop computer to the 3G mobile phone. The entertainment features of the Blackberry Bold are also highlighted by its support for certain games that are downloaded from the Internet.

The Blackberry Bold also functions as handheld organiser. Its customary features, such as the calendar, an alarm clock and a notes or tasks list support the business functionalities of the Blackberry Bold. It allows storage of contacts through its phone book. A handsfree speaker is also built in the smartphone for more convenient calls.

The BlackBerry Bold's rechargeable battery provides standby time of up to 310 hours. With a fully charged battery, the Blackberry Bold offers a maximum talk time of five hours.

Internally, the Blackberry Bold allows storage of files, photo, videos and other data of up to 128 Megabytes. The smartphone also has a MicroSD memory slot that extends its storage capacity to 8 Gigabytes.

Despite its powerful features, the Blackberry Bold has elicited complaints of applications that freeze up in the middle of use. The Blackberry Bold battery has also been known to drain quite easily, especially when the camera is used to snap still pictures, or record and play videos.

Nevertheless, the Blackberry Bold satisfies users with its full package of business functionalities, and has continued to enjoy a reputation of utter sophistication that is seen to thrive in the modern market, and to meet the needs the modern user.