Well, I picked up my Blackberry Bold last November 2008. I immediately fell in love with some of the features. I’ll spend a day or two on the Bold and then I’ll address the iphone 3GS (my wife’s) next week.
I was new to Blackberry until November of 2008. I can not speak to any earlier models of Blackberry devices. Email was the first thing that jumped out and ‘smacked me in the face’ with the Bold. WOW!!! Within 10 minutes of leaving the AT&T store I was getting e-mail from all 4 of my accounts. (2 Gmail accounts, 1 Bellsouth account and 1 MS Exchange Server account) It was just that easy and it has remained that easy. Email is what my Blackberry does best. I know of absolutely no way I would change email, period. Every device on the market would do well to pattern email after the Blackberry model. Did I mention that I love Blackberry email??
Blackberry Messenger
If your friends have Blackberry devices, there is no easier way to text them than Blackberry Messenger. I should add that Blackberry Messenger 5 was released this week (October 2009) with the barcode scan feature. Scan your friend’s device and it loads them to your BB Messenger friends list. Simple, intuitive and the way all messengers should work on any platform. I love this feature and use it daily.
Track Ball
Being a former Palm 750 user, I thought I would hate the track ‘ball’ on the Blackberry Bold. The first week, I hated the track ball. After the first week, I could not imagine any Blackberry without a track ball. Mine has been flawless and based on the UI of the device I think the track ball was the best solution.
Keyboard
I’ve been a Palm fan for years. I used several of their keypad/touch screen combos for years. I thought they were nice until I used the Blackberry Bold for 2 weeks. If the Bold can be beat in terms of style and accurate key boarding, I’d like to see the device that could do it.
Tomorrow you’ll get the things I do not like about my Bold.
Your thoughts?
kml
2009
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