BlackBerry Bold

If you’ve been eagerly anticipating a phone this year, he was one of two phones: the other. This is because RIM BlackBerry Bold is the most powerful, polished handset ever. With 3G, a brilliant new user interface, a real web browser, a serious hardware and almost beautiful body fat does not redefine the BlackBerry experience, but it does raise at its highest point ever.

Let us be clear: if you hate BlackBerry phones, you still intensely dislike the Bold. As many layers of polish that RIM was thick on the Bold, it is still a BlackBerry, with all his suit and tie intact DNA. Basically, he works and plays like every other BlackBerry, but with a load of small to medium improvements, updates and changes in addition to a richer, more refined phone that looks much better than the rest while doing his work.

A BlackBerry lives and dies by its keyboard. When RIM irreducible countered reckless banter about the death of the BlackBerry for the iPhone Exchange support by pointing to the keyboard. After you get used to the slight change in angle the Bold keys, they are fantastic, like a well-balanced wine, with a perfect blend of elastic, punchy and spongy. The buttons on glossy paper are too large for reasons I can not quite divine. The backlight is very beautiful.

It has everything you want: 3G, GPS and Wi-Fi Despite the reports he has suffered from poor 3G problems, I found it more consistent and reliable with its 3G connection . It is not unusual to recover four bars of signal when, for example, the iPhone has seen one. (I realize bars are not standardized or totally accurate, but the disparity between the two is often significant, two or more.) By car test, the transfer went smoothly. GPS has been slower than I liked, often take up to a minute to get a lock, and the maps app could be snappier (and beautiful) than it is, but it will do. At least on AT & T, he will immediately have a browser app.