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The first 5 things I love about my blackberry Bold October 26, 2008

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My husband surprised me yesterday with a Blackberry Bold! I have been looking to buy one for months now as I am traveling a lot and really would like to be able to stay in touch with home and office… I couldn’t make up my mind though: was I going to buy the Bold or wait for the new Pearl flip that is coming out or wait even longer for the Storm (with touch screen)?

Now that I have the bold I can’t believe I have lived my life so long without it… I LOVE that phone! (I know I sound like a geek, but it is so true… )

OK – so what are the first 5 things I love about my brand-spanking new Blackberry Bold:

  1. The screen
    It is so clear and bright! Absolutely amazing colours and text is very easy to read
     
  2. The ease of use
    I have never ever used a smart phone in my life and I can’t believe how easy it is. The menus are very intuitive and after half a day I already felt as if I’ve owned and operated smart phones all my life.
     
  3. The ringtones
    Ok – this is going to sound weird but I don’t like the “song”-ring-tones. I want my phone to sound like a phone and I couldn’t find that setting on my old one. This one sounds exactly the way I want it!!! 
     
  4. emailing on the go
    Setting up my gmail account on the Blackberry was a breeze! I couldn’t believe how easy it was… and it worked after only 1 try! (if only exchange was the same… :-(  but that’s another story)
     
  5. The sound quality
    My old phone was slowly dying after 4 or 5 years and I couldn’t always hear people so well. This phone is absolutely amazing. Very clear sound, not just for me but also for the receiver of my calls… A lot of people have already commented on it! 
I know these might be pretty basic but keep in mind I’ve only had this phone for 48 hours! I might come up for some other pros and cons in the next few weeks when I start traveling in Australia and overseas (and I will have received my first phone bill by then… that might change my view slightly! )

Go go gadget mummy strikes again…. ! September 3, 2008

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The last 24 hours have been very exciting for me… I was waiting for Google to release their new web browser so that I could download it and test it!

Yup –  I told you that I can be a little bit geeky sometimes? Never mind, I’ve got it and it works like a charm! (or rather – so far so good…. as you never know with new software).
I like the fact that it is very intuitive, that creating a bookmark is simply clicking the star left to the address bar (just like you do with your GMAIL in your inbox) and I like the fact that you can grab a tab and turn it into a separate window. Very easy when you use 2 screens like I do and you want to do some internet research. you can have one version of Chrome open on each screen and it really works very well.

I can’t comment yet on the speed but it hasn’t been very slow – doesn’t feel very different from Firefox but definitely works better on my laptop than IE7 does! 

So now that I’ve got that ticked off my list I’m on to the next one: finally I am going to exchange my phone for a Blackberry… a BOLD move… if you get my drift!

Bye for now… I’m going shopping!

Ivanka