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Information Technology News iPhone bashing BlackBerry making Bold debut in Europe
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Saturday, 09 August 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 If familiarity does, indeed, breed contempt then anyone
familiar with the iPhone will certainly be contemptuous of the half-VGA
(480x320 resolution at 217 ppi) colour LCD of the BlackBerry Bold. Yet
look beyond the smaller size and lack of multi-touch interfacing, and
you are left with a display that is actually stunning in terms of both
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It is undeniably a BlackBerry, yet the look and feel is different to the rest. The chrome finished trim against the polished black casing and that wonderfully tactile leatherette backplate ensure you know that as soon as you pick it up. iPhone 3G users will, no doubt, scoff at the sacrifice of display upon the alter of the keyboard and argue that a full, multi-touch, screen with a virtual keyboard is the more aesthetically pleasing solution while retaining all the functionality. Having lived with an iPhone for some time, and being in possession of relatively fat fingers, I beg to differ. It is all too easy to slip up on the virtual iPhone keyboard and not get rescued by the often irritating auto-correct system. The tactile feedback of a proper, albeit shrunken, keyboard makes for more efficient text input even for the fat fingered amongst us. Yes, the smaller screen will make for a different web browsing experience. However, RIM insists that the combination of the next-generation 624 MHz mobile processor with the trackball driven browser is the more flexible solution. Web browsing comes in two configurations, either a standard desktop style page view with point and click zooming to move around specific parts of the larger web page, or a quick switchable column view. The latter presents the page in a continuous column for easier reading and scrolling, although I am hard pressed to describe this as being 'as the developer intended' nor even intuitive. So is the BlackBerry Bold a business phone or not? Can RIM take a bite out of the Apple consumer market? Find out on page 3... CONTINUES |
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