The Blackberry Bold 9700 & Blackberry 9000 Review

iPad and Blackberry Bold 9700 Play nice?

AP - Photo / Paul Sakuma

When the pictures like the one here started showing up after the iPad launch, i thought man.. I gotta blog about this! I mean but the silly thing is, people just don’t realize how crippled a device this really is. You see these expressions of sheer joy… Like a warrior of the old days finally nailing a deer with a hunting bow, modern man finds joy in forking over their money they feed their families with for toys.

This device is proven incapable of multi-tasking. I mean reading email, checking the web, while glancing at your twitter.. Or even listening to a song while working… All things a Sub $299 netbook can do…

My most recent purchase was a EeePC T91, and it’s truly something special to behold… But I won’t get into the joys of either… How does a Bold 9700 fit in with all this wizardry and devicery?

Well, let me say this much… With a Bold 9700 in your pocket whether you like the proprietary and limited hardware of the iPad or not, you can easily use cradlepoint to tether your blackberry to your iPad and get 3G on the non-3G model, and no doubt without an extra bill you have to pay each month.

So, you don’t like the operating system of the large iPad device but still like the features and functions, some kids have figured out how to hack OSX onto the iPad… Well, not REALLY… But still.. You can easily VPN using the right app into any machine… another mac, another Windows 7 machine and gain all those features wirelessly, even if your on the beach… So theoretically you could run anything you wanted remotely using that strategy.

But, the nice thing about a netbook vs an iPad is that you can have flash, you can run any old program you want and you can carry as many batteries as you want with you. You have a webcam for chatting and conferencing, you can get multi-touch and GPS and 3G internet.

The Bold 9700 won’t sync all it’s data with an iPad, but it would with a netbook of course… It remains to be seen and I truly believe that we’re going to find a generation that goes thru the fad of thinking these are incredibly cool and then finding they’re not using them as often as they thought they would….

I give the device 1 year, before you’ll see them going on craigslist for $200 and under.

Sonic D.