My New Blackberry Bold

Ok, so here's a little post about my new blackberry bold.

No I didn't write this post using my blackberry, though I could use blogger mobile to do that. I just didn't want to type up a whole freaken post on my BB when I can use my computer. It's just a total waste of time. Even though I can type very fast on the bold, it's still not a computer keyboard.

I do love my bold, and I've been playing with it a lot. There's of course pros and cons of it.

This isn't really a total review, it's just some of things that I think after using it for a bit.

The pros are of course it looks fantastic. I just love how it looks and feel. I love the leather back. I love the really really bright screen. Of course it's not a touch screen, but that's the trade off with the keyboard. I tried the iphone keyboard and it's just not good. It's really hard to type and stuff on that. Though of course the good is that you get a bigger screen. But I think this screen is big enough for what I need.

I love the fact that the bold is push email, so I get a near real time notification of all my emails. That will come in really handy when I get auditions and such while I'm out. It works very well and gives it to me with multiple email address. So I can really email people back on a very very timely manner. In fact I just did that earlier today about a concert reminder by the host today. It was nice to be able to communicate using all three of my main accounts. I have others on top of those, but I only added those three to my BB. The others don't need adding.

I love my unlimited text so now I text like crazy.

I love the GPS on it. Google maps has a really cool function that lets your friends know where you are using a latitude program. Neato...except if someone you once were friends with decides to spy on you.

It also has MMS which is a big plus for me! Iphone doesn't apparently from what I heard.

I am sure there are lots of other pros on the technical side that I like but don't even realize them.

The Cons.

There are definitely some major cons.

First is that they still don't have a reliable program to sync my mac with my bold. So now I have to work around it by using google sync to get my contacts synced and my calendar synced. I haven't gotten my itunes synced, I'm waiting on my micro SD card to arrive and then I will probably buy the missing sync program. The pocketmac program that came with the blackberry was completely unworkable. From what I read about the missing sync program, they have severe issues with the contacts syncing. So I will refrain from using that. I will only use google contact sync for now then.

The other con is the lack of free applications. There are so many for the iphone but so few for the bold. Granted the bold is a relatively new phone, but I wonder if they will really come up with a lot of great programs or will it just die off like a lot of phones. That's the sad thing. iphone's been around for a while and from generation to generation they can pass down programs. Bold doesn't seem to be doing that. Probably because blackberry makes so many different phones with different size screens which doesn't help third party developers developing programs and giving them out free. But then i guess there are a lot of paid programs too for iphone. I just wished I could find a few more free themes and a few more free programs. I did find a couple really nice ones so it's not a total loss. They do work well and I do like them.

I did have a random shutdown once which was annoying. Also SMS text had an issue once. Just little things like that.

It's a tradeoff, but it's all good. I am very very happy with my bold and I think I made the better choice for me. It's about business, not about entertainment. I need the push email function which is a big big plus. As long as I can work around the sync issue I am still ok.

Just thrilled about my BB Bold!!!!!!