BlackBerry Bold 9000 Reviews

BlackBerry Bold 9000 Review at Gizmodo

This is RIM's best phone ever. Does that mean it's the phone for you? If you're a BlackBerry fanatic, yes—it really is the phone you've been waiting for, if you're not hoping RIM radically changed the recipe. Because they didn't. It's cleaner and brighter, but it's not an overhaul by any means. It's a more powerful and beautiful distillation of the same experience. For other people who were eyeing it as the time to switch to BlackBerry, the issue is less straightforward. As I said in the intro, it's coming into a complicated world, where it has more consumer crossover appeal than a flagship RIM device—currently, the 8800—ever has before. (No doubt, even more people are looking at it in light of 3G problems on other handsets, either suit-and-ties who were considering the jump, or people looking for their first high-end smartphone, though more of the former.) At its heart, this thing is a corporate workhouse. It will play movies, music, browse the internet and all of the things consumers usually want—and do it well—but it is coming from a different mindset than the iPhone, something to keep in mind if you're torn between these two phones. Read more...

BlackBerry Bold 9000 Review at CNET

The BlackBerry Bold has plenty of multimedia options, and with the smartphone's brilliant display and awesome speaker, we think it's one of the main highlights of the phone. The built-in media player can play various music and video formats, including MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, and MIDI music files, and MPEG4, WMV, DivX4, XviD (partial support), and H.263 video clips. There's a search function, playlist creation, shuffle and repeat, and you get a full-screen mode for video playback. Read more...

BlackBerry Bold 9000 Review at Pocket-lint

It's RIM doing what it does best. As for the multimedia elements again there is enough here for the business person to dabble without getting bogged down and the iTunes sync tool, which you can download for free, is genius as it will allow you to sync your non DRM-tracks and content with the BlackBerry Bold at the press of button (however be warned we had immense trouble getting the file from RIM's website). 

Where does it let the side down therefore? The browser and the size. The large form factor is likely to put non-business types off and anyone looking to take advantage of that 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity to do some browsing is likely to be disappointed. Read more...