| Design | 4.4/5 |
| Display & Interface | 4.4/5 |
| Calling | 4.5/5 |
| Talk time | 3.5/5 |
| Messaging | 3.8/5 |
| Music | 3.8/5 |
| Video | 4.6/5 |
| Camera | 2.2/5 |
| Memory | 4/5 |
| Web browsing | 3/5 |
| Connectivity | 4.4/5 |
| Productivity | 4/5 |
| Scheduling | 4/5 |
| Laptop sidekick | 3/5 |
| Navigation | 3.8/5 |
| Gaming | 3/5 |
| Mobile services | 3.5/5 |
| Accessories | 4/5 |
| Value | 3/5 |
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Pros:
Fantastic screen, complimented by a dark, colorful new interface theme. Great music and video playback. Loads of connectivity options. Nice keyboard. |
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Cons:
Visual polish on menus doesn't go nearly deep enough. This OS needs a makeover. Messaging options surprisingly lacking and dated. Sub-par camera and Web browser. |
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| The RIM BlackBerry Bold 9000 on AT&T is a phone that leaves us vexed. Of course it's a very good phone, it's a BlackBerry. It made calls that sounded great and it has one of the best displays on the market, which compliments the updated user interface and the fantastic video performance. We liked the music player as well, and even the apps that frustrated us still functioned nicely, we just feel like they could look much better. The BlackBerry OS, despite the obvious surface improvements in the BlackBerry Bold, is in need of some deep scrubbing, and even on this impressive multimedia device, it still looks a lot like the interface of a two-way pager. The messaging app makes even e-mail look more like text messaging (and vice versa), and the Web browser still can't manage to load up our own homepage. True BlackBerry fans will ignore these issues and simply appreciate the update, which makes for an impressive music-playing, video watching device. But to compete with the newest smartphones on the market, RIM will have to dig deeper and create something truly new for the BlackBerry OS. |
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