BlackBerry 9700 Bold Sim Free Mobile Phone - Black
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 | Product Details: View further technical information at Amazon Release Date: 12 November 2009 Manufacturer: RIM Model No: RCM71UW Rating:   | | Look for similar products by category: | | Customers who bought this item also bought:
| | Customer Reviews: All Phones are equal but some are more equal than others! (16 July 2010)Nowadays the mobile phone market is awash with smart-phones all claiming the same, that is being a 'next generation communication device' I have owned an array of smart-phones starting with Nokia's imo then excellent 9210i and have now moved to the world of blackberry's. The first thing I would like to say about the Bold 9700 is that it is not a gaming or even much of a multimedia device, I think people need to be aware of this when they buy it. When you set out to buy a Blackberry Bold 9700 you should not be looking for gaming or amazing video playback or picture taking ability. Leave the gaming to the iPhone, Video to any large screened phone and Pictures to Sony Ericssons excellent Cyber shot series, The Bold 9700 is a communication device. So what actually defines the Bold 9700? -The ability to sync your emails effortlessly -Tight integration into today's social media networks -Long Battery life - Perfection when it comes to making and receiving call and texts - Ease of use The thing which makes the 9700 stand out is that it just does what you want it how you want it when you want it to. I know it is a bit of a cliche however it really just gets on with the job and does what its supposed to. Previous to the 9700 I used a Nokia E75, as much as I felt it had the best keypad ever created on a smallish phone it was confused as to what it was. It wasnt a multimedia device but fell short of being a communication device. Blackberry's are not confused. At all. The 9700 has great battery life easily lasting 2 days with heavy email social-networking and communication usage. You can email and text and tweet and check all those news sites you want all day long and it just continues to work. It also has great reception. On the O2 network in the UK it easily beats most other smart phones with very few dropped calls - even on the motorway, and almost never lacks signal. Ergonomically it also scores. It fits in the palm of your hand perfectly and the keyboard is well laid out, it also is a good size and allows for fast efficient typing, even of long emails. The user interface is equally very nice - with the exception of the web browser which is clunky and outdated yet just use opera mini if you want a better browsing experience. The rest of the UI is well laid out and email and text threading is wonderful and saves much time. So is this pretty much the perfect device with no flaws? Of course not, nothing is perfect and the 9700 also has a few issues. First as mentioned the web browser is pretty bad. Second at times the screen is a little too small but it would be hard to make it larger without sacrificing the good keyboard space. Thirdly the app store is a bit of a mess. There are many great apps - reuters pro, ap news to name just two great apps yet it need to be improved. Long startup however is the most annoying thing about this phone. It really does take 3 minutes. Sometimes it just freezes leaving you to wait forever to use the phone. Other than that this really is a very capable communication device which works very well and does the job it was designed to do very very well! Excellent (07 July 2010)This phone is just brilliant, I had the Bold 9000 before this and thought that this was pretty good but this one is even better! So easy to use, the little tracker pad is a nice touch and makes scrolling very smooth, The camera feature is greatly improved in terms of quality of picture and functionality as well. The set up wizzard is extremely simple to use as well. 10/10 from me! Best RIM device so far - The one to have (06 July 2010)I have had many Blackberry handsets over the years. Some of which have been great and trouble free, and some have been nothing but problematic. My trouble free years of blackberry use came to an end with the release of the BOLD 9000. Over a 12 month period I had it replaced 11 times! If it wasnt the track ball freezing up it was the speaker that died or the software just packed up. Thankfully as a business account holder I was fortunate to only have to make a "quick" call and a replacement was despatched next day. This Bold 9700 has been an absolute pleasure. I have had it since January 2010 and it has operated faultlessly since it arrived. The track pad as opposed to the ball is just genius and that's half the problem with a blackberry gone. The device is actually really attractive and smart. I did find it took a bit of getting used to the slightly smaller keypad after having the 9000, but soon overcame this. Its so easy to use and set up, and was all set up with contacts, messages, sms, and apps thanks to blackberry desktop manager, even the last call i made on the old one was on the new one. Absolute piece of cake. Has some really neat new features which really improve the operation of this device as opposed to the other cheaper blackberrys. As a seasoned blackberry user I would recommend you spend a little bit extra and save yourself a lot of potential headaches and just buy yourself a bold 9700. Great product (02 July 2010)Following the positive reviews, I bought this product and I'm completly satisfied with it. For me, the important criteria were: internet access, user friendly to use, good battery life and possibility to download apps. I don't use my phone to listen to music and very little to take pictures. So the Bold 9700 is perfect for me. Doesn't fully support personal email access via imap (01 July 2010)I'm shocked to find that although this smartphone is advertised as supporting personal email, it cannot do something as simple as connect to an pop or imap mail server out of the box. Apparently, your network has to support Blackberry Internet Services to make it possible for you to retreive email (tesco mobile, my provider, does not, so to get the phone to work I would have to change provider) Even if your provider does support BIS, they will probably charge you extra for it, and even then it will not support full imap mail connection - apparently you can see your inbox and send mail, but not your other folders. n.b - I have to note at this point that if you use a consumer email service like yahoo mail or google mail, the Blackberry Internet Service probably will work OK and sync all your mail folders But many of us do not use one of the most mainstream services - and either run our own mail servers, or connect to a less mainstream service, such as one provided by an ISP. I have never had a problem retreiving my mail with any other phone for years, including Palm, Nokia and more recently Android based HTC models. I'm amazed that it is not possible to do this with this Blackberry, even with a wifi connection. I thought blackberry were supposed to be a market leader for email based smartphones - what a joke! I have a hard decision now whether to go through the pain of changing providers and porting numbers, only to receive an email service which is not fully functional - or simply ebay this piece of junk For a modern smart phone not to fully support imap email out of the box, is quite frankly, ridiculous |
