BlackBerry Bold 9000
BlackBerry Bold 9000 is yet another business oriented cell phone, this time with DivX vido support, good music player, large display and much much more.
Overview:
BlackBerry Bold 9000 is a full QWERTY cell phone with comfortable keyboards, high resolution, large screen, built in digital camera and document viewer and editor. Additionally, the latest BlackBerry has a standard 3.5 mm audio jack and very good audio quality and excellent connectivity.
BlackBerry Bold 9000 pros:
+ 2.6″ 65K-color TFT landscape display with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels
+ BlackBerry OS v4.6
+ 624 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM
+ Comfortable four-row full QWERTY keyboard
+ Quad-band GSM support and tri-band 3G with HSDPA
+ Very good build quality
+ Wi-Fi and built-in GPS and BlackBerry maps preloaded
+ 2 megapixel camera, LED flash
+ Responsive trackball navigation
+ Hot-swappable microSD card slot (up to 8GB)
+ DivX and XviD video support
+ Good web browser
BlackBerry Bold 9000 cons:
- Poor camera performance
- No email support without BlackBerry Internet Service account
- Lack of radio
- Won’t handle 16 GB memory cards
The design:
BlackBerry Bold 9000 measures 114 x 66 x 14 mm and weighs 133 grams. The phone is made of hogh quality and durable materials which make good impression. Additionally, the phone comes with a leather carrying pouch in the box. The front of the phone is dominated by the full QWERTY keyboard and the 2.6” landscape display. On the left side of BlackBerry Bold 9000 there is one of the loudspeaker grills, the 3.5mm audio jack and the miniUSB port. Also on the left if the convenience key (highly customizable) and the microSD card slot. He right side of the BlackBerry Bold 9000 houses the second loudspeaker grill, volume rocker and second convenience key. On the top of the cell phone you will find the Mute key, whereas at the bottom the microphone, the lanyard eyelet and back cover release button. The back of BlackBerry Bold 9000 is covered with faux leather and features the 3 megapixel camera lens and LED flash.
Performance:
The 2.6 TFT display works in 320 x 480 resolution and shows great colors. Moreover, it has very good direct sunlight legibility. The QWERTY keyboard is very responsive and comfortable to use. The phone runs on BlackBerry OS v4.6 which looks really good. As most BlackBerry cell phones the BlackBerry Bold 9000 comes with a document viewer and editor, yet, unfortunately with no PDF support. The phonebook is practically unlimited and with multiple fields for information.
The biggest disappointment in BlackBerry Bold 9000 is its 2 megapixel camera. In times when cell phones tend to offer 5 or 8 megapixel BlackBerry Bold 9000’s 2 megapixel seem poor. Moreover, the image quality is, in the best case, average. Even the manual settings of the camera do not help too much. Thus, as you might expect the video recording is even worse and it is only suitable for recording MMSs.
The BlackBerry Bold 9000 also comes with a bunch of timesaving applications such as calendar, calculator, alarms, To-do, timer and stopwatch. They offer the usual bunch of features well known to anyone who has ever used a cell phone. Yet, the BlackBerry Bold 9000 also comes with 5 quite playable games.
Multimedia:
The music player in BlackBerry Bold 9000 is truly amazing. Although it might not be the most impressing from Th. Point of view of graphics, but as it sorts the music library automatically, allows you to browse it in a few different ways and has superb audio quality I think that that’s what counts. The noise levels are very good and the stereo crosstalk and dynamic ranged are even better. Of course, the player may be minimized and work in the background.
The video player in the BlackBerry Bold 9000 supports DivX and XviD videos out of the box. Unfortunately not all of videos will work, but ‚only’ the vast majority. With the high resolution, large screen the movies look really good.
The web browsing experience is also very good thanks to the display. The websites are rendered just like on a computer, they are readable and as you can zoom in and out, pan and scroll there is really not much more you could expect.
Menus / ease of use:
The BlackBerry Bold 9000 runs on BlackBerry OS v4.6 which is pleasant to work with and quite straightforward. However, due to its numerous business oriented features new blackberry users might get lost in the abundance of settings at first. However, after just a few hours, or days of using the phone everything seems natural and easy. All in all, is taking pictures with a mobile phone is not your priority wheres business-related phone features are the BlackBerry Bold 9000 might be just the right phone for you.
Selected BlackBerry Bold 9000 features and specifications:
Price: US$ 377 /unit
Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / UMTS 1900 / 2100
Form Factor: PDA
Antenna: Internal
Navigation: Trackball / QWERTY Keypad
Battery Type: 1500 mAh Li-Ion
Talk Time: 5.00
Standby Time: 312
Memory: 1.0 GB
Expandable Memory: microSD / TransFlash
Imaging
Main Screen: 65000 colors (TFT)
480 x 320 px
External Screen: N/A
Camera: 2.0 MP / Flash / 5X Zoom / Video Recorder
Audio
MP3 Player: MP3 / AAC / AAC+ / eAAC+ / BlackBerry Media Sync
FM Radio: N/A
Speakerphone
Push-To-Talk: N/A
Multimedia
Wallpapers: 480 x 320 px
Screen Savers: 480 x 320 px
Ring Tones: MP3
Themes: N/A
Games: J2ME
Streaming Multimedia: MPEG-4 / H.263
Messaging
SMS, EMS, MMS
Email: POP3 / IMAP4 / SMTP / Microsoft Exchange / Lotus Domino
Chat: AOL / ICQ / Windows Live / Yahoo!
Predictive Text: SureType
Applications
Calendar
To-Do List
WAP: 2.0 (BlackBerry Browser)
Connectivity
Bluetooth: 2.0 (A2DP / AVRC / HFP / HSP / OPP / SPP)
Infrared Port: N/A
High-Speed Data: HSDPA
Wi-Fi: 802.11 a/b/g
GPS: BlackBerry Maps
PC Sync: USB 2.0
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