AT&T BlackBerry Bold hands-on

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Strabo @ Nov 10th 2008 2:03PM

My collague at work tested it for a couple of weeks now. It looks great but it crashes like there is no tomorrow. It crashes several times a day. It even crashes during calls. Unusable - he's now back to the old Curve.

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pekosROB @ Nov 10th 2008 2:55PM

You said he's had it for a few weeks now. Do you think that's why AT&T pushed the release date back? To fix those problems?

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Strabo @ Nov 10th 2008 4:02PM

I hope so. He upgraded to the latest firmware though and it didn't solve anything yet. The hardware seems great, but the software not so much.

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le Chen @ Nov 10th 2008 5:51PM

i believe our friends Rogers got Bold a lit while ago.
so i think he didn't mean to ATT

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dj-kenpo @ Nov 11th 2008 10:04AM

lots of people at my work here in toronto have the bold and they've had ZERO issues.
you just sound like you're trolling.

zero glitches.

the screen is fucking bright and beautiful by the way. it makes my ipod touch screen look dull and washed out.

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lanejasper69 @ Nov 14th 2008 9:53PM

Dude, My Bold hasn't crashed or lagged once and I have Google Maps, IM+, Facebook, TV app, etc. (3rd party apps) and it performs AWESOME! the screen looks AMAZING, when it sleeps it slowly fades to black (keyboard, trackpad and screen) all turn off at same time, which can be set to an interval of your choice from 15 sec to like 2 minutes, or you can just hold the mute button and do it that way, It's very sexy and elegant the way it fades out!!!! Battery life is awesome for all the connections on it, wifi, BT, tethered as modem all on and running sequentially etc. Very happy there!! The memory boost is a huge welcome, I can have many apps running at once and not even feel it, I'll go into the store or something and unmute to find the music player was still running and I noticed absolutely no lags whatsoever. I was tethered, streaming and IM-ing" ll at once today and couldn't tell that there was even a load on the system at all, I was so stoked!! The QWERTY is amazing and I find it helps to correct your typing (like the review hits on a bit) it kind of just "gets it" when typing etc. The speakerphone is awesome!!! I have to disagree here a slight bit, It's simply very loud and clear (much louder than any other smartphone I've EVER had, and people I show it too cannot belive the sound that comes out of it, its even "bassy") I can use it while in shower and hear it just fine, it's pretty amazing I do turn it down one volume bar and it doesn't sound distorted to me at all. I've ripped all the BOURNE (that I own ;-) ) movies on it and it looks amazing on the new screen. The 3.5 is on the side, but the device isn't THAT big so wasn't a deal breaker for me. The battery cover easily come off with a push of a button on the bottom, and you can remove and insert the Micro SD card without turning off device OR removing the battery cover. There are only a few themes I've seen out there so far, prob. because the new screen size etc. requires a re-work on some of the older themes to work but I'm sure they will come soon for those who want them. The icons to me are a bit repetitive in look and it can be a slight bit annoying at first, but you can arrange or hide them etc. to your liking and after a short time you can move to them rapidly without missing a beat, so I give mine an A+++ as I love it, and it kicks ass!!!!!! Highly recommended for business and consumer like. The Storm looks cool too, but I LOVE QWERTY, so I made the perfect decision for me. The Camera and video recorder aren't TOO big of deal for me as I don't shoot much on a phone (I use my Nikon D40x for that, but it does have a built in Flash that certainly welcome a few dark room or night shots for a quick video or pics for the family etc. but only 2 "mega-pickles" so it is what it is, the flash certainly was a very nice addition to me. Well, (as Forrest Gump once said, "That's all I have to say about that". ;-)

LOVE it!!!!

Faslane 66

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