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The Experience: I Got My Blackberry Bold!

Harlem — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:25:00 +0000

So after to-ing and fro-ing for well over a year I have finally used my T-mobile upgrade to get the Blackberry Bold. Phew!

And here are my five thoughts on it:

1: I’ve added all my RSS feeds from Blogger to the Viigo RSS reader application (I installed) on my Blackberry Yay! Took me a little while to figure it out but it was actually quite straight forward in the end. So far so good too. I am always connected to all you wonderful bloggers I follow hurrah!

2: Also added ~~Twitterberry with Twitpic for posting images~~ UberTwitter (thanks to Fashionista at Play) and will hopefully be able to start posting images. So if you’re following me on Twitter there’s bound to be way more visual highlights of things I come across and love in my daily life.

3: This thing seems to be a bit of a media monster. The sound and video quality is definitely as bold as the reviews said. I haven’t quite tested it to destruction or anything but as a first impression it’s pretty cool.

4: PIN!!! For the uninitiated it’s basically free text messaging between BB users… worldwide!

5: Calendar. I can finally keep up to date with all my appointments which I’m forever losing track of. So here’s to a more punctual me.

The Gadget: iPhone vs DS and PSP

Harlem — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:45:00 +0000

So it’s rumoured the next generation iPhone will be a gamers paradise which is absolutely no help at all for my chronic indecisiveness on which mobile to purchase…

If you’ve been following my gadget posts you’d know I’ve been going back and forth on whether or not I should get a Blackberry, which one and when?

But now the idea of an iPhone which may already be causing the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP to tremble is too tempting for a Mac loyalist like myself.

If it does turn out to be true, the new all-singing all-dancing iPhone could be released this Summer.

[via Wired]

The Experience: Vodafone Blackberry Storm

Harlem — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:06:00 +0000

I am very disappointed. The Blackberry Storm I so raved about turned out to be less of a thunderous adventure and more of a damp squib…

I have now had the Storm for exactly 13 days, 12 of which have seen it sit idly on my dining table whilst I arrange a return.

Yes, I am indeed sending it straight back from whence it came. Why? Well to show you I’m not being entirely unfair I’ll break it down into pros and cons:

Pros:

Good video quality
Good audio quality
Good integration of applications (i.e. facebook and Google Maps)

Cons:

Lack of WiFi makes viewing YouTube and internet browsing range from impossible to annoyingly slow.
The so-called superior touchscreen seems to be down to the fact the screen is one big button. Not great for us RSI sufferers
Similar to the above typing was both literally and figuratively a pain in the wrist. Given that I went with blackberry for the ease of sending emails, sms and Pings this was a major drawback.
There’s a bug which kept switching the camera on for no apparent reason…very annoying

So, rather dissapointingly it’s going back. But I still have pleasant memories of my time using the Blackberry Curve so I might go for the Bold instead which was in fact the original plan before I was seduced by the Storm but hey, you live and you learn.