![]() Most importantly, if a large part of your BlackBerry usage is going to be spent thumbing its keypad-mailing, texting, chatting-the Bold is your best bet. The Bold may not be beautiful but it is certainly bountiful in features, functions, power and performance. Even if you presume that most BlackBerry users use GPRS/EDGE data services, it is an odd omission for a phone that has some inherent Web browsing advantages over regular phones with smaller displays. On the Wi-Fi front, the Bold offers 802.11a/b/g and the 8900 has 802.11b/g. While the Bold is FIPS 140-2 validated, the Storm is FIPS 140-2 compliant. In terms of security, the phones offer password protection and keyboard/screen locking and offer support for AES or Triple DES encryption when integrated with a BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Remember, Google Maps provides only locational abilities, not navigational. GPS (on the Bold and 8900 A-GPS on Storm) functions well on all three but you need to download Google Maps to get anywhere as the pre-loaded maps for India are useless. The Storm’s 3.2 also delivers decent results but it’s excessive shutter lag time is obtrusive, especially with the flash. The 8900 has a good 3.2-megapixel camera-a shade better than what you get on most phone cameras. Battery life on the Bold is the weakest in this group. ![]() With average mail and voice usage, you need to charge these phones almost every day. Since instant push email is any BlackBerry’s forte, all these handsets work with BlackBerry Enterprise Servers for Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino, Novell GroupWise, along with providing integration with existing enterprise and personal email accounts. While the Bold and 8900 offer hot swappable support for SDHC/microSD cards, the Storm requires you to open the rear panel, pop the battery (thereby resetting the phone each time) to insert/remove microSD cards. RAM-wise, the 8900 has double (256MB) of what Bold and Storm (128MB) tote. No complaints with the Storm, but the 8900 emanates a sharper, shriller sound in comparison-still not weak or tinny. In tonal quality, the Bold, with its twin speakers, sounds the best, with powerful and resonant output. The phones are 3.5mm stereo headset-capable and feature very coherent and loud built-in speaker phones. There were no call drops on any of the handsets during the test period. Voice clarity over the integrated earpiece and microphone is very good in all three phones. While the Bold trackball lights up, the one on the 8900 doesn’t, and that doesn’t look very appealing. ![]() The Bold and 8900 employ those efficient “Pearly" trackballs for onscreen navigation and scrolling. The 8900 makes you type more gingerly and pudgy fingers on it will be plagued by typos. If you are addicted to medium-to-heavy use of the alpha pad, the Bold is by far the best with its spacious keypad. Of course, SureType predictive text is far better than T9. Its SurePress technology and tactile feedback work fine for menus and the dial pad.īut texting on the Storm tends to become a bit too laboured (and error-prone, if you are typing fast) even on the well-spaced keypad in landscape mode. Dedicated Send, End, Menu and Return keys aside, the Storm gives you SureType and multi-tap (portrait) as well as Qwerty (landscape) on-screen keyboards. While the Bold and Curve feature full Qwerty backlighting keyboards, the Storm has a touch-screen keypad.
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