Fitz Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 I've had all three. Bold hands down wins it for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvteye Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 I have a bold and the missus has a pearl. Orange is a bit crap around my house and in work and interestingly when I have only sos she has 2/3 bars on hers so the bold clearly has a crappy aerial. It's easy for mailing due to the qwerty but whilst it has wi-fi (which you have to set up for each router) it doesn't have uma ( to make calls over ip). If it did I would be happy as larry as I wouldn't have to hang out of my bedroom window every time I made a call! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonT Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Ive got a Bold and i think its a great phone!! Although ive heard the Nokia N97 is another great phone but dont really know much about them but might be worth looking into! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadyn Posted July 28, 2009 Author Share Posted July 28, 2009 Thanks for all your input guys, I think you've sold the Bold to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitz Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 WooHoo!!! You've made a Great Choice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I have been using an E75 for a couple of months now on Vodafone, using Mail for Exchange. I have not seen any issues with calls being blocked in favour of the data connection and I have been using all over the place in 2g and 3g coverage areas. This is our current handset of choice and have already supplied quite a few to our own customers, again with no real problems reported. The only issue that I have is the battery life. I am on it all the time as I am field based and it barely lasts the day, whereas the E61i it replaced lasted 3 days easily. Is this problem happening in just one particular area? I tried it out here at home and don't see the problem, so it seems to be confined to just that chap's area. How strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkirby Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 i got the 8900 a few months ago, i could have had the bold but when you compare the two specs side by side the 8900 curve wins hands down, better battery, better camera, smaller etc etc in fact i dont think the bold wins at anything against it and touch wood i'm very happy with it, does everything it need to do and unlike other blackberrys i have used its really easy to use saying that my business partner has the 32gb 3gs iphone and he loves it, in fact he's never off the bloody thing LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 probably too late, but the Curve 8900 (Javelin) is the one to go for if you want a Blackberry. I look after about 100 handsets at work, all the Storms got given back because theyre were simply crap. And the Bold just doesnt run as fast as the Curve we found, not to mention what mkirby has said above which is all true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 I have been using an E75 for a couple of months now on Vodafone, using Mail for Exchange. I have not seen any issues with calls being blocked in favour of the data connection and I have been using all over the place in 2g and 3g coverage areas. This is our current handset of choice and have already supplied quite a few to our own customers, again with no real problems reported. The only issue that I have is the battery life. I am on it all the time as I am field based and it barely lasts the day, whereas the E61i it replaced lasted 3 days easily. Is this problem happening in just one particular area? I was just back the at place, and saw exactly the same symptoms. It appears to be a problem when there is only a low-strength 2G/GSM signal available. With my o2 sim card, and Network set to GSM instead of UMTS/Dual, I had the same problem with my o2 card as he does with his Voda sim. Strangely, I saw the same symptoms with my E51 Really strange, but for sure, disconnecting the GPRS connection allowed calls to come through. When the data connection was in use, on GSM, with low strength signal, calls could not come in. I'm taking an N97 there tomorrow, which BTW is sooooooo much better than the E75. If only it had the improved mail client of S60 FP2. Unless I'm being stupid, I can't for the life of me find any kind of Mail for Exchange connection status, or the ability to manually sync/resync/full-sync the calendar & contacts. I realise MfE is now "inbuiilt" on FP2, but this omission is a real PITA on the E75 and presumably other S60 FP2 phones, like the E55 i was hoping on getting at the end of the month. I think this guy is going to end up with Crackberrys. Bolds for the big guns and Curves for the lesser folks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 What do your friends say a Blackberry can do that is so special? funny my mates usualy ask me the same thing bout the cackphone i have the bold and i love it! works well enough for me:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Anyone know anything about the Onyx yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathman Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 I was just back the at place, and saw exactly the same symptoms. It appears to be a problem when there is only a low-strength 2G/GSM signal available. With my o2 sim card, and Network set to GSM instead of UMTS/Dual, I had the same problem with my o2 card as he does with his Voda sim. Strangely, I saw the same symptoms with my E51 Really strange, but for sure, disconnecting the GPRS connection allowed calls to come through. When the data connection was in use, on GSM, with low strength signal, calls could not come in. I'm taking an N97 there tomorrow, which BTW is sooooooo much better than the E75. If only it had the improved mail client of S60 FP2. Unless I'm being stupid, I can't for the life of me find any kind of Mail for Exchange connection status, or the ability to manually sync/resync/full-sync the calendar & contacts. I realise MfE is now "inbuiilt" on FP2, but this omission is a real PITA on the E75 and presumably other S60 FP2 phones, like the E55 i was hoping on getting at the end of the month. I think this guy is going to end up with Crackberrys. Bolds for the big guns and Curves for the lesser folks. It does sound very strange. If they want to inprove the signal in their office on Vodafone and they are not likely to have more than four people wanting to make a call at any one time, it may be worth them having a look at this, http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatch/Portal/appmanager/vodafone/wrp?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=templateCClamp&pageID=PPP_0061 Pretty nifty little gadget and may solve their data issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 It does sound very strange. If they want to inprove the signal in their office on Vodafone and they are not likely to have more than four people wanting to make a call at any one time, it may be worth them having a look at this, http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatch/Portal/appmanager/vodafone/wrp?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=templateCClamp&pageID=PPP_0061 Pretty nifty little gadget and may solve their data issues. Ah yes, JustGav was talking about those things a little while ago.. there's a technical name for them that I can't remember. It turned out that the N97 worked perfectly. The N97 gets good reception there and the issue doesn't show at all. So, there seems to be an issue in that a low strength GSM signal when in use for data doesn't allow calls to come in. I wonder if that's standard for GSM networks as a whole, or if it's a specific problem to the Nokias.. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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