One of the well-known and well-favored BlackBerry products will be the BlackBerry Bold 9000 or also known as the very first generation of the Bold family. The phone has been released in 2008 and it gained a great response from the market especially from the loyal users of BB smartphone. The following are the BlackBerry Bold 9000 review which consists of the detailed technical specifications, price range and also the benefits and drawbacks.
Design
To begin with this BlackBerry Bold 9000 review, let’s examine the physical design of this hone first. It is actually comes with the elegant look featuring its 4 rounded corners and also leather-textured back cover. You will see that there are several physical shortcut buttons and others contained in this phone. At the top side there will be the mute key while at the bottom you will discover the microphone, lanyard eyelet along with the rear cover release button. At the right side of the device, you will have the volume rocker, convenience key and loudspeaker grill. At the left side there will be the 3.5 mm audio jack, loudspeaker grills, convenience key, microSD card slot and also microUSB port.
The display measures 2.6 inches with 65.000 colors and 480 x 320 pixels of screen resolution. Below the display there are the call, menu, trackball navigation, back and end call buttons (from left to right). This smartphone feels very solid when it is on the hand grip. Unfortunately, the device has been considered as the heavy weight phone with its 133 grams of heaviness. It is also not a very compact handset since it measures 114 mm in height, 66 mm in width and 14 mm in depth.
General Performance
As being the first gen of the family, you will not discover the high spec on this device since it only boats the 624 Mhz processor, 128 MB of RAM and also the outdated BlackBerry OS. The good thing is this phone comes with the spacious internal storage namely 1 GB which can also be expanded with microSD card up to 8 GB. There will be the 2 megapixels camera (1600x1200p) with LED flash and video recording support but it doesn’t come with the front-facing camera for video call necessity. To back up the overall performance, the phone has been bundled with standard battery of Lithium-ion 1500 mAh which can deliver the stand-by time of up to 310 hours and also talk-time of up to 5 hours.
Data Access and Other Connections
The BlackBerry Bold 9000 supports for GPRS and EDGE Class 10 for the 2G network and also the HSDPA network for the 3G network with the speed up to 3.6 Mbps. For the wireless connectivity, you will be given the WiFi 802.11 a/b/g and also Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP. The great thing of this phone will be the HTML web browsing, A-GPS and also the BlackBerry Maps application.
Price and Verdict
The BlackBerry Bold 9000 comes with the selling price of about $155 (unlocked). The benefits of this phone are the fashionable design, clear display, comfy keypad, spacious built-in storage and also 3G network support. However, the device features the somewhat large and heavy physical body, weak default browser, poor quality camera, the inexistence of auto-focus feature and front-facing camera for video chats. As the final words, hopefully this BlackBerry Bold 9000 review can be very helpful and informative for your own preference. [IS]
