Had a long discussion with Mac about Blackberry Bold vs. the iPhone 3G and it is indeed land of riches. Personally, I’m probably more in favor of the iPhone because although it doesn’t have a keyboard, it has a big screen and I find on my iPhone (which I’ve lost! boohoo!) that I can read much faster with it than the Blackberry because the screen is larger. I can type faster with the Blackberry. So, net, net, hat tip to the iPhone because it is more multipurpose. Web browsing actually works rather the Blackberry which has some mutant browser that just kinda works.
The rumor is that the screen is nicer at real quarter VGA and maybe it won’t be so incredibly slow since it now has 600MHz Arm rather than 300MHz. The other big drawback of the first generation iPhone is pathetic battery life when you are using the Mail application because apparently it keeps polling. If that gets fixed then slight tip to iPhone, but Blackberry is in the running for now.
Personally I think in a year, the applications momentum for the iPhone will tip things in its favor. But Blackberry Bold is a good product. Notable features in the Crackberry.com review are:
- Wifi. Support A/B/G now
- Intel XScale 624MHz
- 5 ounces or 140g
The initial reports are that it is fast. The Cure often gets hung up while it is doing something in the background. It only has 96MB of onboard flash so that is hardly surprising. The screen is about the same size as before. Maybe 1/4” larger.
The MicroSD where you load things is external. Yeah. The Blackberry Curve had one which I use for music that was behind the battery. GPS is also there now. It still has that mini trackball thing. I personally find it small and it really does gather lint and stops working.
The operating system is updated to 4.6 whcih has lots of eye candy with nicer looking themes and a nicer effect as you roll the trackball. And the fonts look nicer with the higher resolution and brighter display. Also folks think the speakerphone is better. That is great as the iPhone speakerphone is crappy. The media application is still pretty bad, although there are players like FlipSide and KiuTunes that you can buy (not!) but at least they have playlists.
The camera has a flash but it is still a very fuzzy 2 megapixels which I’m sure is more about the lense. It now does video though FWIW
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