Blackberry Bold 9000 Unlocked GSM Cell Phone
- There’s a heaping of wireless options on the quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) BlackBerry Bold
- The RIM BlackBerry Bold is equipped with a 624MHz Intel PXA270 processor, whereas previous BlackBerrys had 312MHz processors
Product Description
The BlackBerry Bold features a half-VGA (480×320 pixel resolution) and a 65,000-color display. During some initial product testing, research group participants repeatedly called the screen “bold” and “brilliant.” The Brilliant moniker didn’t really jibe with the company, thus the BlackBerry Bold was born.There’s a heaping of wireless options on the quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) BlackBerry Bold, but the most appetizing and notable item is the HSDPA/UMTS (850/1900… More >>
April 11th, 2010 at 8:08 am
I HAVE A NEW IN BOX AT&T BLACK BERRY BOLD NEVER USE STAY IN BOX PHONE COME WITH EVERYTHING IN THE BOX YOU NAME IT
I NEED TO GET MY TEXT BOOK ASAP
COME WITH
PHONE
BATTERY
CHARGER
MANUEL
CD
CASE
AND ETC
Rating: 5 / 5
April 11th, 2010 at 10:42 am
I was led to believe that this was a new and unlocked phone. When I took it to Indonesia it would not work. Was told that it was indeed a refurbished phone and not completely unlocked. I was very disappointed.
Rating: 1 / 5
April 11th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
The phone was unlocked from O2 Network, so that is why the keys are switched. Other thoughts: its fast, its beautiful, its a bit big, but I love it, so I really don’t care about that.’
Activation from my network was done un about 2 hours and everything is working perfectly.
Rating: 4 / 5
April 11th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
…experience I am having since the invention of cellular phones. I am trying to switch from Verizon, unfortunately, because daughter wants the Blackberry Bold, which is available only with AT&T. So I am going through this horrible experience. I believe I am entitled to write this under this product because you cannot get this phone unless you get the terrible service together from AT&T, so in my view the phone and the service go together.
That said, here is the rest of my predicament.
I have received the three phones under a family plan for almost two weeks now (recd March 30th, today is April 12th). I am with a company which has a discounted plan with AT&T for its employees so I have to call AT&T’s Premier Support for activation. And if this is AT&T’s ‘premier’ support I cannot even imagine what their non-premier support is like.
I am in Mountain time. AT&T’s ‘premier’ support closes at 9PM EST each weekday, so I’ve been trying to get home in time to try them between 5-7 PM my time, so that our phones don’t get cutoff mid-day.
Each time, I go through half a dozen prompts to end up in a waiting queue, then after 10-15 minutes I hear a couple of rings like I’m getting into someone’s phone, but instead I hear a click and the line goes dead.
Been going through this all past two weeks. Was then looking to the weekend when the ‘support’ would have more overlap with my time zone.
Saturday, I start calling at 9AM MST and lo and behold now after the last prompt I’m thrown into a voice mail to leave my number for a call back.
I leave my home number because I don’t want to call on a line which will be deactivated, so I get stuck with my home phone. Half of Saturday goes by then I try again, leave another voice mail. Did I get a call back? You guessed.. Sunday, same thing..
Then, I looked up and tried a different support number to perhaps get to a supervisor. I go through several prompts then I get an announcement ‘sorry, we are having technical difficulties’ and the line goes dead.
I am now trying to convince my daughter that quality of support is more important than a phone and I have absolutely no desire to get stuck with inaccessible support and a terrible company for two years, no matter how good the phone may be.
Have been with Verizon for 10 years. Can call their one number anytime and talk to them about anything, changing plan, my company discount, anything, all in one place. And have never waited more than five minutes on line to talk to someone.
You can draw your own conclusions….
Rating: 1 / 5
April 11th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
I initially purchased this device in 2008 from AT&T when it just came out and changed 3 of them since that time. First had a problem with trackball after couple of months of use. The other one had dead pixels on the screen. So I am on my third device now. My primary aim for this device is usage of chat software(IM+), emails and internet browsing (Opera Mini). This is by far is one of the best and user friendly devices I have used. It is not laggy as windows mobile devices, The menus can be accessed quickly with no delays. And especially multitasking (which iphone lacks) is a very nice feature that has been helping me a lot while chatting, making a phone call, and watching a video or listening to the music at the same time. Of course I had to update it with the latest firmware update. Before that, I had some java errors and spontaneous reboots, but not anymore. Since the last update I can confirm that I had NO problems whatsoever. I have few complaints though which in my opinion are minor ones and I can live with them. First is the battery life. If I am not using internet very often it may last a day and a half but when I am browsing with Opera Mini or chatting on IM+ the battery drains very quickly so I have to carry another battery with me. Another thing I would prefer to have is a nice youtube player which I can’t find anywhere (I tryed a couple of them). And the youtube that plays with a native browser is just garbage, which is kind of sad because other phones like Iphone and HTC touch pro 2 can play youtube quite nicely. And last but not least is the camera. Outdoors, on the bright light you can get more or less decent pictures but if you will try to shoot a video it will come out as a total crap, pixelated with distorted lighting. And the flash isn’t helping much either. Unlike for example with Nokia n97 which takes pretty decent pictures and videos. But like I said these things are minor ones and since this phone is being oriented more for a business user you can’t expect to have it all. Especially I like the ability to operate this device with one hand only, which comes in handy in many situations, unlike some other phones with larger keyboards I have tried. Of course another nice feature is a multilanguage support which you can not have in windows mobile phones (e.g. convert device and keyboard interface in spanish, german or other language at no charge) Now I am only expecting the release of OS 5.0 which I will immediately install on my device. So let’s see how that goes. I definitely recommend Blackberry Bold for someone who is searching for a device with push email, chatting and light internet use.
Rating: 4 / 5
April 26th, 2010 at 11:40 am
The Blackberry is the best gadget that i ever received as a gift from my best friend. It has nice features and the design looks very cool too.
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