RIM BlackBerry Bold

RIM BlackBerry Bold
Posted: 12.06.2008, 6:21am
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The Pitch: BlackBerry makes a bold assertion that the Bold is not merely a smartphone, but a stylish device that empowers your passion and simplifies your life.

Pros: It really is a BlackBerry and packs in all of the key features for such a device — excellent keyboard, email, and organizer — yet it is a stylish and multimedia-friendly smartphone.

Cons: It doesn’t really bring any innovation to the table — it’s neither a truly new BlackBerry, nor the best multimedia phone out there.

Recommendation: I recommend that the Bold moves to the next round! It isn’t perfect, but which one is? It combines the typically rich business features of every BlackBerry, with a decent multimedia pack, into a sleek body, RIM has created an excellent product that should be considered by anyone who’s serious about business.

  • Root Ginger
    The Bold has a number of problems with it so should not be in the Top 25. Orange in the UK temporarily stopped shipping it until a firmware update to fix the problems. Now the firmware update is in place and the problems are not fixed, they have now stopped selling it completely due to a very high return rate.
    The problems include dropping and being unable to make and receive calls even in good coverage areas.
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