Bold User Reviews?
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Hi everyone - I scrolled through this forum for a good Bold user review discussion and decided to start one. I just got my Bold a few days ago and I think the infatuation is already gone, so I'm not sure if I should return it or suck up the loss of $400 and keep it. Here's my review:
Good:
Keyboard is awesome and I find typing on the large surface a lot smoother, and I'm making less mistakes
Built in speaker sounds amazing for the size, good when you want to show videos or play songs for other people.
As a phone, the sound is much better both talking to others and listening.
The larger screen is amazing, crisp and bright. The photos and videos that come with the unit really showcase the picture quality here.
Browser is definitely much better, better than OperaMini
Finally plays YouTube videos.
Has a video camera.
Wifi seems to work
NotSoGood:
The system is faster but not significantly so I don't know, maybe I'm used to computer performance? But the advertising and reviews I've heard and read seem to make this thing out to be the cat's ass in Blackberries and I still find it lags once in a while when switching apps etc.
3G, is this supposed to be fast? Again, faster than Edge but not much by any stretch. Especially the GPS, in fact I don't see a difference at all when doing the GPS navigation. And it still takes long to load image intensive pages.
WIFI - well if I'm on 3G with a 6GB plan, it's not very useful for me. Plus I had a hard time connecting to my secure network at home. I had to set it up through my router actually.
Skin - I'm sorry, but when you make all the buttons white outlines, it's just hard to find stuff quickly. I realize it's solved quickly by installing themes but I havne't gotten around to it yet.
Mac support - I installed the latest version of Pocketmac, and it crashes everytime I do a synch. I tried it about 5 times, and realized that although it crashed, it still managed to download my calendar and address book over. However, it didn't bring over my notes and it still erases all the calendar items from 60 days prior by default. I have stuff I need to keep for that!
So anyway, that's my pathetic review. As you can see there are more good points than bad but they are very short which means they're less significant. I guess I am 50/50 on this thing. Just wondering if other Bold owners are still at the honeymoon stage after a week of ownership?
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