Blackberry Bold Reviews

Blackberry Bold 9000 with rolly ball thingy - YUCK!

Blackberry Bold 9700 Review or Bold Review on Blackberry Bold
By a die-hard Blackberry User

I have had the new Blackberry Bold for a couple of months now. I want to give you the good, the bad and the ugly. For the most part I really like the Blackberry Bold. This is my third blackberry smartphone in the last 4 or 5 years. I LOVE my blackberries.

Now…the ugly. I want to post on here some of the things I have learned and some of the things I am still learning. I am not sure what your service is, me, I have been with T-Mobile since 1999. At one point I thought I wanted to switch and I got a phone with A-T&T and I can tell you, I hated it. I hated their plans, I hated their service. I never had enough minutes and customer service was a joke. That has been several years ago and I don’t want to get some crummy emails telling me how wonderful they are. I just know MY experience of them. It was not good.

T-Mobile has always had excellent service. I even like their automated system. I never thought I would hear myself saying that because I pretty much hate automated systems.

So…back to the ugly of the Blackberry Bold. One thing I noticed right away was I don’t like it that they changed the plug on the charger. Yes, it is not the same as the old ones so your old chargers won’t fit the Blackberry Bold. I have a phone charger for ever car I own and I have a phone charger in every room so this did not excite me. Maybe you are not a freak about charging your phone the way I am. I have five kids and their phones use the same charger so I learned early on that if I wanted my Blackberry charged, I needed to get enough chargers for it.

I also didn’t like that I lost a lot of my contacts. I am not sure what happened. I have multiple contacts of some people and other people *poof* gone. I don’t know where they went. I am sure there is some user error here. I am not a blackberry expert by any means. Of course, I suppose most people aren’t so that is why they would be reading a review of the Blackberry Bold on this blog. So at this point, would I still recommend you buying the Blackberry Bold? Yes, yes, yes. The biggest reason is no tracking ball on the middle thingy. This is only on the 9700 as the 9000 still has it. I would never, ever buy another Blackberry with the rolly ball thingy. No, thingy isn’t a technical word. I’m just a girl with a Blackberry. I call it a scrolly thingy. I like the new trackpad and I wouldn’t go back to the Blackberry with a ball EVER!  My Blackberry Curve had the scrolly ball thingy super-glued in twice. Yes, it is true. It still worked. I didn’t buy the insurance. I still loved it! I didn’t know how to get it fixed, nor did I want to spend the time and money to get it fixed.

Check back for the next blog and I will share some more good stuff about the Blackberry Bold. Again, I still recommend buying it.

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