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User reviews6
kanga999 30 December 2009
Good: The Idea of a Querty Keyboard
Bad: Bad Software, Sound Quality
Comment: Firstly, I am not a big fan of the I-phone, but I would Put Apple above this product anytime, simply becasue its much more intuitive and for a new user, the Blacklberry would drive people to frustraion very quickly. If your intending to purchase the Blackberry as a business tool (as most companies seem to do these days) then DONT. Any Windows Mobile phone, a HTC Hero, or I-phone would provide much more intiuitive and function rich software than this blackberry device. I have used 2-3 of the different blackberry range recently in various business enviroments, all the products seemed flawed and this is why.
They try to re-invent the wheel, why try to develop a different user interface when the whole phone marketplace is already adapted and is using somthing else. Touch screens is a case in point, can you imagine any consumer walking into a store and coming accross a "business" phone that doesn't have a touch screen?
Other issues that Blackberry should address using the media player as an example
* the 3.5 Headphone jack only takes certain headphone types, not all, so your limited on getting the headphones to work.
* Sound quality, the Headphone jack supplied a very low quality
* Inbuilt Equallizer is very bad and may as well been ommited
* Carnt hear phone calls thru headphones (one user points out that you can if you unplug and replug phones duing call,)
* No external controls of media Player - See I-phone
* Very basic Controls for media player
So this just give you an idea of flaws in just one section of the product. My best advice for any product is to download the manual first and read through, if it makes sense, then take it to the next step.
Dont buy it, there are 3-4 different products out there that are simply better and allot easier to use.
bowser 28 October 2009
Good: Design, ease of use, keyboard
Bad: Reliability, bundled software, third party applications.
Comment: I really want to like this phone, its design is top notch, works straight out of the box. But I love it and hate it in equal measure and ultimatly it is a big let down.
Reliability has been a problem and I am on phone number 4 from T-mobile, not a problem except that the backup software does not backup everything and a restore does not put the phone back as it was.
The bundled software is just useless, as a basic function you need to be able to open save and edit in some basic form, office documents, the bundled software is read only uless you pay to upgrade and even then will only open a very restricted number of file formats, for a phone aimed at the professional market this is unacceptable. The choice of third party software very poor compared to other smart phones, compairing it to windows mobile or apple versions of the same software is like compairing windows vista programs to graphical DOS based versions, they look childish and reto and appear to be missing functionality. There is little or no ability to install anyting to the memory card. The built in GPS works well but the mapping software is poor, it works WHEN it finaly gets a GPS fix but it takes a long time and there is no turn by turn, there is a massive need for a mapping program that is installable on the SD card, as unless sombody else is paying the bill the data services are not useable when out of the uk, so forget using the phone to get a quick fix when your lost on holiday, and roaming as the ammount of data transfered will bankrupt you!!!
In short a fantastic phone that is badly let down by the software, the look and feel of the software and its functionality.
My last gripe is not really the fault of the phone but of developers, when you purchase software it is generaly linked to the ID of the particular phone, this has been a reall headache when the phone is just replaced rather than repiaired, I have had problems with number of programs purchased where the developers will not relicence it to the replacment phone without futher payment.
My advice steer well clear, the overall experience is poor and a big let down.
boleslawpetersen 15 April 2009
Good: reliability
Bad: price
Comment: i am happy in every aspect , i had so many phones b4 but i found the one!
all my life i thought BB is som kind amecican shit... its not, anyway its canadian lol, Research in Motion save my time and money. Really
mmanassian 1 March 2009
Good: screen resolution
Bad: everything else
Comment: I JUST DON'T LIKE IT
joseaa 2 February 2009
Good: excelent keywords
Bad: Poor batery life
Comment: Excelent device! Highly recommended!
Boaungdin 20 December 2008
Good: Easy setup of emails without knowing the technical details
Bad: Need to buy software to write word and excel files and to read pdf files.
Comment: I have both Nokia E71 and Blackberry Bold. With Bold I can setup my organisation emails without having to know the technical details_ E71 lacks this support. Bold's screen is much better and its browser is more usable than the Symbian on E71. However, Bold cannot read .pdf files if it is not sent by email. You cannot create documents or spreadsheets with Bold. If you also need GPS, E71's GPS is the most sensitive I have ever used (more so than Garmins and Tomtoms) and E71 supports pdf, doc, excel and ppt files. E71's keyboard though small is more accurate than that of Bold. Both of them support 'encryption' which is a 'must' in my corporate environment. E71 also supports video calls.
Bottom line: For emails and browsing, I will choose Blackberry Bold because Blackberry's email support is more than perfect. But I will give a busy journalist an E71.