Posts Tagged ‘blackberry’

Or maybe not. As a self confessed gadget freak i’m always excited about the next new toy. My Vodafone contract will be up this December and i will be due an upgrade to a new phone. At the moment i have a Blackberry Bold. Vodafone have just announced that they will be getting the iPhone 3Gs. Oo joy! Or is it?

I’ve been playing with my iPod touch, using it to try out typing because i do a lot of emailing and texting from my phone and i just don’t like the keyboard at all. It’s nowhere near as accurate as my Bold. Plus it feels flimsier, i can slide my Bold into my jeans pocket and i know it’s not going to get damaged, it’s a tough old gal. But the iPhone/touch? My Touch is already looking very scratched and rough and i have been very gentle with it.

So, for the first time in my life, i’m not going to grab the newest shiny toy for the hell of it, and i probably won’t upgrade to the latest Bold either if they really are making it smaller. For me, it’s going to take a hell of a phone to compete with BB Bold!

Well i’ve had my first ever Blackberry for about a couple of weeks now and i am frigging loving it! I wanted to be able to email on the move, plus i like texting so a proper keyboard was something i’ve always wanted. I hate phone keypads for texting! Anyway, it’s also got facebook, myspace, flickr, twitter, twitpic, i can blog to this site from it (after much tweeking), the calender is brilliant, it syncs with my google and facebook calendars, and yada yada yada. There’s are loads and loads of apps that you can install.

One of my faves is vlingo: http://www.vlingo.com/

Vlingo is a voice-powered user interface that unlocks access to mobile phone wireless data services. vlingo for iPhone™ and vlingo for BlackBerry smartphones allows users to speak into their device and have many popular applications carry out their respective functions. This includes dialing your phone, sending an email or SMS, creating and saving a memo or task, opening a web browser and performing a web search, composing a social-networking status message and more.

I have an iPod touch so i already knew i didn’t want an iphone or blackberry storm, the keyboard is too hit and miss for me, i prefer a physical keyboard. The camera isn’t great which is my only big letdown because i take a hellova lot of pics and like being able to take snaps wherever i may be. My previous phone (Samsung Soul) had a pretty decent 5 megapixel camera and my Blackberry only has a 2 megapixel camera. Bit of a shame when you think how easy it is to upload your photos to flickr, facebook, twitter, etc.

The media player and screen are both out of this world! The screen imo is better than the ipod Touch/iPhone. It’s very sharp and the sound is pretty damn impressive too. Oh and i live in a crappy area that is hopeless at getting strong reception for mobiles, tv, radio, etc and yet this phone has the strongest signal of any phone i’ve ever had before. So overall i’m a happy bunny!

Rule Britania…

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