The Blackberry Bold 9700 & Blackberry 9000 Review

Slow Bold 9700 or Bold 9780 in OS 6?

Are you going snail speed or slower?

I was, until a few days ago when I found out that I could see all programs running in Blackberry 6.0 thanks to a new feature that let me see what was running and what was causing my problem. Mine was Google Maps which had been running for 3 days straight. Ironically, my blackberry got slow about 3 days ago!

Is your Torch, Bold 9780 or Bold 9700 on OS 6.0 going slow? Is it lagging in spots and making text messages, and even contacts and browsing super slow? Pehraps check what’s taking up the CPU in 3 simple steps:

Click on Options:

Then Hit Applications:

Then head on over at the top there to “CPU” and you’ll see a list…

Click each application and you can see their memory use, cpu use and how long they’ve been running for!

Blackberry OS 6.0 One Homepage Tray Fix

I went googling all over the web after about a week of using the Blackberry 9780 to find something that would fix the way the home screen works. It drives me insane! I don’t like having a favorites, and a home and a media etc, etc. It actually angers me.

I went looking for a homescreen plugin, or a homescreen theme fix or even some kinda homescreen tray removal thing. Anything that would get that home set of icons to stay still, stay put and not move. Some way to have a fixed group of icons on the home screen.

While I haven’t found that yet, in the mean time I’ll say that one thing that helps reduce anger about it.. whenever you get lost, hit the red phone hangup button and that heads straight to the default “all programs” and it’s easy to find your way from there.

Dan

Bold 9700 and Bold 9780 Chargers for $0.83

I was surfing amazon today and saw that they have Blackberry 9700 and Blackberry 9780 wall chargers for $0.83!!
Make no mistake, this charger is the same small motorola created mini-usb end that we’re so familiar with that came out with the 9700 and has been stuck with since then on all new models.

Short post, I know, but it was really shocking to me actually.

The Style 9670 – Worth mentioning?

f RIM’s done some pretty funny things over the years, it has to be inventing the Style Blackberry. Not only is the flip-phone that’s borrowed every nasty thing from the latest blackberries leaving out everything that was good.

Here’s my feelings – your welcome to your own of course.

Skipping a review of all features included (since likely every other site out there has already done a review of the Style 9670’s features and specifications) I simply want to highlight what this means to Blackberry Bold owners and whether we should ever consider one of these ugly things.

First off… RIM touts these displays as “High resolution” while this isn’t really true. The outside screen is a QVGA 65,000 color display and the inner display is akin to the 8520’s 360×480 view.

The keyboard is the same hard to press type keyboard that exists on the Blackberry Torch…

It’s narrower than the bold making it not as enjoyable to hold…

So in short, with an even harder to press keyboard than the torch…

Many reviews claim it’s a great phone. They claim that they barely notice the low resolution screen. I hate to say that when I had the 8520 and I cracked OS 5.0 on there (comes with 4.6), I found it to be painfully slow and the screen size was the end for me. Some reviews say it’s got the same processor as the other recent new phones by Rim… The infamous 624MHz ARM chip that runs the entire Bold 9000,9700, 9780 and 9650. One could argue with a 320×400 res screen, running less screen pixels and real estate could make it peppier than a Bold, but that wouldnt’ deter me from telling anyone to stay away from the crippled thing running a smaller battery than the average Blackberry and having smaller screens with a harder to type on keyboard.

Not much else worth mentioning…

Rogers Blackberry Torch Now Available

I’m sure most have already heard that as of Yesterday September 29th 2010, Rogers started shipping Blackberry Torch 9800 devices if you ordered off their website. There’s no telling how much stock they have or how long they’ll do this but this surely is a smarter method than delivering them to stores as they have in the past with the iPhone 4 launch where some would likey go to towns where no one’s interested and other towns would sell out.

Rogers has it listed for $199 HUP or $609 for the purchase outright. Makes no sense that the iPhone is $649 retail and $159 on contract… But ah well.