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RIM Blackberry Bold is not the sleekest smartphone in business, nor does it have the genuine appeal of an Apple iPhone. But, the Blackberry Bold Smart Phone delivers on many fronts. It has one of the sharpest screens amongst smartphones, has new productivity applications, HSDPA support, WiFi, Bluetooth, and excellent messaging capabilities, to name a few, which makes it a business phone package that most users would find it hard to resist.

RIM Blackberry Bold Design

At 15×66mm thickness, the Blackberry Bold is definitely not one of the thinnest smart phones in the market. However, a weight of 136g would mean, it is surprisingly lighter for this thickness. The black chassis and silver trim, plus the rounded edges and the leatherette texture on its back give the phone a sophisticated look altogether. However, the true attraction of Blackberry Bold is its partial VGA non-touch screen that is capable of displaying 65,000 colors at a 480×320-pixel resolution. Clearly it is superior to HTC Touch Diamond and iPhone, the best display phones available today.

Below the screen is a full QWERTY keypad. Given the key size and spacing, typing on it is relatively easy. Also, the keys are backlit so that typing in the dark is also child’s play.

On the left side of the Blackberry Bold are a 3.5mm headphone jack, a customizable shortcut key, a mini USB port, and a microSD/SDHC slot. Volume rocker and another programmable key occupy the right spine. Mute key is at the top, while a 2.0 mega pixel camera and flash are located on the back side. Battery life of Blackberry Bold is better than Apple iPhone’s.

RIM Blackberry Bold Software

The interface of the new BlackBerry OS version 4.6 looks clean and user friendly than its predecessors. Pressing on the menu key takes one to the main application screen, populated with spruced-up new app icons. For a user holding this phone for the first time, the icons may appear pretty similar. But, this confusion will be solved once the icons are pointed using the trackball, thanks to a label describing the icon that appears beneath.

Of course, the most important application of Blackberry Bold is the email. Apart from its ability to sync with your company’s Blackberry Enterprise server, with support for Novell GroupWise, Microsoft Exchange or IBM Lotus Domino, the device would also let one access as much as ten personal/business IMAP or POP3 email accounts, thanks to its Blackberry internet service. A dedicated attachment viewer would ensure that the user will have no issues whatsoever in viewing various office document formats such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Corel WordPerfect, PDF, or JPEG or GIF.

Further, the Blackberry Bold offers lots of multimedia features, making it one of the few smartphones that score well in the multimedia department as well.

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Powered by a 624MHz Intel PXA270 processor, the Blackberry Bold offers reasonably fast performance most of the times. Even though the browser had few glitches, the smartphone scored above par in the multimedia front, call reception, and battery life. Typical of Blackberry mobile phones, business utilities were topnotch, save a full fledged doc editor. Overall, RIM Blackberry Bold is a decent smartphone from the Blackberry stable, despite its high price tag.

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