Now for the handful of things that I’m not so happy about on the Blackberry Bold.
Media Player
It is OK. Maybe to some it is great. Too bad for Blackberry that I picked up an ipod a few years back. Other pieces of hardware that try to do music & video seem to pale in comparison to ipods. The media interface is mediocre and it does not seem like high quality to me. It feels like media was an afterthought …………somewhere way after email.
Voice Mail
I must do a ‘before’ and ‘after’ here. Voicemail before AT&T offered Visual Voicemail on the Bold reduced me to the basic cell phone voicemail. It was a pain in the butt and quirky. The little message symbols went away sometimes after clearing voicemail and other times I had to pull the battery. However, with Visual Voicemail, all of my Blackberry Voicemail issues went away. It’s now very easy to use and intuitive. I must add here that I suspect the Voicemail issues were always an ‘AT&T’ issue rather than a ‘Bold’ issue but it was still aggravating to say the least.
Internet
I saved this to last because to me Blackberry has absolutely failed miserably in this area. And YES before anyone suggests it, I have tried both Bolt and Mini Opera for Blackberry and to me they are both lame attempts to correct the largest flaw on any Blackberry device. If I needed my Blackberry for heavy internet use, I would take a sledge hammer and smash each piece into powder. Reading web pages (and pdf files) is like going to a proctologist that has huge fingers. It is painful and embarrassing……….and sadly this one feature would drive me to another device in the future if Blackberry does not fix it. Don’t give me the ‘well it is so good with email that you don’t need internet’ story. That story may have worked before the iphone but not in 2009. Blackberry, fix the internet engine and you will remain highly successful for many years. Ignore it at your own peril.
Your thoughts?
kml
2009
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