A Review Of The Blackberry Bold
Blackberry phones have always been popular, but mostly with the suited corporate types. While some non-business consumers have seen their appeal and adopted them over the other more widely accepted smartphones, Blackberry wants more ‘regular’ users, and the new improvements it’s made to the Blackberry Bold are designed to make this Blackberry a little less stuffy, and a bit more fun.
In fairness to Blackberry, they have stuck to the kind of style and design that has won them plenty of business customers, and looked at ways to make this appeal-able to the consumer market, rather than try and create a non business version of their phones. The improvements to the new Bold have created a sleeker, good looking smartphone, its just a question of whether you are a fan of the QWERTY keyboard, or not. The Bold’s high resolution screen benefits from the excellent pixel density, which makes it easy to watch movies and images on the Blackberry’s ‘widescreen’ layout; and reading the text on webpages and in messages is even easier on the eye, thanks to the crisp and clear display.
As you’d expect from a smartphone manufacturer that keeps the business world in touch with itself, the Bold has the full range of connectivity options, with 3G data handling, as well as EDGE and GPRS. There’s the latest Bluetooth and WiFi, and you also get GPS, although Blackberry Maps isn’t likely to have Google too worried. The camera is also a decent standard, especially for what it will mainly be used for. With 3.2 megapixels, autofocus, 2x digital zoom and an LED flash, it can handle most instances where it will be needed. The Bold also has the capacity to capture HVGA video too.
The Bold has also seen an improvement in its operating system, with the new Blackberry 5 OS. It’s designed to be more user-friendly and intuitive, with a better design and layout that should be more appealing to the non-business user. The new Bold has better media integration, so images, movies and music are now a part of the interface, and not just an add on. The web browser performs well but can be a little slow on content rich sites. One thing you would expect the Blackberry Bold to be good at is communicating, and it doesn’t disappoint. Integrated messaging and apps like Facebook Connect make keeping in touch easy and fun.
The latest version of the Bold offers a lot, and not just to business users. With an improved and still unique look, an updated user interface, and better integration of the kind of media and communication features that smartphone users want, it offers a real alternative to the other options on the market.
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