BlackBerry Bold: A Laptop for the Hip or Purse...
With about two months' experience using a BlackBerry Bold, I was able to pull my experiences together for Web Worker Daily yesterday when this smartphone became available on AT&T: BlackBerry Bold: Upgrading Your Mobile Experience.
Last night at a small local dinner on the topic of social networking in public relations, a few attendees had Bold as it has been available for a couple of months in Canada. Our consensus was that in a world where one wants to keep current in real time with Twitter, email, document viewing and editing (a new feature of Bold) and browsing weblogs or many websites, the BlackBerry Bold can be considered as the first generation "laptop for the hip or purse".
As for Skype via the Bold, whenever I'm away from home, I open iSkoot and am able to follow Skype chat messages (including Twitter4Skype) while riding the commuter services or in a restaurant. With Ontario's forthcoming law banning cell phone use (except for Bluetooth headsets) and text messaging while driving. it means safer roads but I may not respond immediately. Of course iSkoot also gives me calls to Skype contacts with only charges for local wireless minutes.
And, if you don't want to be "Always On", BlackBerry Bold (as well as the forthcoming Storm and Pearl 8220 Flip) includes a bedside mode feature with options to turn off both phone call and email notifications (but logs them) yet still allows the alarm to work.BlackBerry will continue to be a major player in the smartphone market; but these new smartphones are devices you have to see and experience to realize their full potential as not only a business productivity resource but also a personal associate for both your business and personal social networks and activities.
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Hey, Jim! I'm a little -- okay, a lot -- behind in jumping onto the smartphone bandwagon, but now I find myself needing one. Our provider is AT&T, and when comparing the "must-have" features, the two I've narrowed it down to are the Bold and the HTC Fuze. Haven't had a chance to mess with either of them in person yet (I'm in the infant stages of research) so I'm devouring reviews until I can. Have you seen or tried the Fuze? I like that it takes the best -- in my opinion -- of the iphone and Blackberry and merges them. But I'm hearing the Bold's display and sound are far superior to the Fuze. One thing that is a hang-up for me is the browser. I've never had a Blackberry and I use Firefox!
Advice?
Lara Jane. Since I wrote this post in early November I have been quite surprised at how the user community has been adopting the Bold. From my perspective there are really three players in the smartphone game: Apple, Nokia and RIM. (Android may come on but they have some big challenges; what gives them a hope is Google's support.)
But the iPhone is really for personal use; I use mine a fair bit for the content in some of the apps. The Bold is really becoming my laptop for the hip. When I leave my office I am quite comfortable that I will keep up with all the dynamic information I must follow (email, Twitter, Facebook, Word/PowerPoint document editing, news - Google, NYT, CNN, sports. And the ability to sync with iTunes via BlackBerry MediaSync is also great to have. And I use SlingPlayer to watch my home cable TV anywhere; there is a recent SJ post on that.
But more importantly I attended a session on the forthcoming BlackBerry store. There are going to be some interesting apps that can take advantage of BlackBerry's battery management, multitasking, display screen, superb display screen and security features.
I just don't see Windows Mobile devices going anywhere on my radar. Yes, they are out there but in a year's time they will not have the developer community support that Apple, RIM and Android are getting. You'll be learning about applications that you just can't get on a Windows Mobile devices and it will become frustrating.
More can be found at www.lucafiligheddu.com; search on BlackBerry on Luca's site. If on Twitter go to search.twitter.com and search on "filos bold".
Hope this helps.
can i have skype in my bberry bold? How can i do? Pls give me a hand .
Can you write me with the steps to :
contactsforever@yahoo.com
Thanks for all
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