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hey guys John render from TechnoBuffalo here the view for you of the BlackBerry Bold 9700 for t-mobile this is going to run you about 129 bucks on a two-year contract after rebate so I would start off my phone reviews or the discussion of the cult quality because no matter what these things do or how much they can handle if they don't make good phone calls you're going to be of little use to you so t-mobile service is gonna vary from region to region where I am in Southern California I have five bars of 3G and fantastic call quality I had no white noise on my end callers have no white noise on the other end and it sounded almost a landline ask quality wise I know drop calls in the time that I was testing this and even transition from 3G down to edge the call kept going without being dropped which was quite nice so the big thing with the BlackBerry Bold 9700 got a few internal upgrades but sort of the big upgrade the one that I was the most skeptical about was the loss of the trackball and the addition of this optical trackpad admittedly I wasn't quite sure Alice is going to work I've tested a trackpad on a few other phones smart reserved specifically the Samsung epics a little while ago and I did not like how it worked that was in a Windows Mobile setting a here we've got of course in the BlackBerry OS actually it becomes quite natural works really nicely definitely took about a day to get used to it if you're used to soar the old trackballs I'm going to want to spend some time figure out how much to swipe your finger left or right you can adjust sensitivity to receive you the best but actually became very natural and fit and really nicely with the BlackBerry operating system you can see right here--an is going through menus sort of one swipe up or one swipe left to right is all you need you sure done with that scrolling of the ball at I'm going to keep on like this and like this it's it becomes a lot easier to navigate so actually was very impressed so if you're worried about the trackpad as I was you can sort of put those concerns to rest one of the places where I think it comes in most handy is in the browser now certainly BlackBerry's browser is a bit on the anemic side although they did demonstrate a WebKit which really is the same basis for the browser on the iPhone and the Android devices so full HTML fidelity they demonstrated this new browser at this year's Mobile World Congress there was no really set data when it was going to be released but you can expect a better browsing experience but for what you're going to get with this phone the trackpad works quite well as far as navigating it's much easier it's a bit more natural scrolling almost like you get on a laptop trackpad and you can zoom in just by tapping it and it has the same functionality as a baldon you can push it in and activate you know zoom or some many functions that way so I've been a pretty big blackberry fan for a while but I haven't used a phone with a dedicated keyboard in a while and I also forgot how much I missed it the keyboard on the bold I think it's going to be either a love-hate thing for you but for me I really enjoyed it the keyboard was very easy to use there was a bit of a learning curve and sort of training my fingers where to hit there are these metal sort of rod you can see extending through the keyboard often times I would hit that metal piece instead of the keys but after about a day and a half to two days I was hauling through it pretty accurately let's go ahead and show you how the keyboard works here go ahead and start a new message we'll close out of this and I'll just type through my standard this is a test so pretty accurate I typed very long emails on this like I said it took me about a day or so to get used to it but I did very quickly so if you're a really a bold user you're used to the previous generation Boulder you're upgrading from the curve the keyboard is going to be a very nice experience the keys have a lot of tactile feedback sure about a weird design they're slanted in a few directions but you will become a natural Adam so blackberry is really known for one thing and a really one thing only I think they do better than anybody else and that is email if you are an email power user if you rely on email for everything you need sort of file management and the ability to arrange your emails and surf track up and star them and to send them up any way you'd like there is no better option than a blackberry and the bold 9700 sort of reaffirms that I'm a dedicated iPhone user and using the email client of blackberry really made me remember how bad the iPhones email client is things came through using BlackBerry's push services immediately I was able to serve star and flag messages come back to them later able to set up folders it just made for a much more seamless experience although you're gonna have to read those emails on a relatively small screen am ia to zoom the font and a pretty big be able to read enough god I've got nice eyes that that work relatively well so you know if you can deal with a little bit of a smaller screen and email is important to you I'm going to be hard-pressed to find the device does email better than the blackberry 9700 the 3.2 megapixel camera on the back with flash takes pictures about as good as you'd expect you know average quality nothing you're going to hang on a wall I'm not going to be Ansel Adams with this thing but you can take you know shots of your friends drunk at a bar and send them off later as blackmail won't be a problem there are a few other sort of additions to this phone there's inclusion of visual voicemail which is quite nice so if you're used to individual voice mount other devices you'll have access to that of course on the bold 9700 you also get a ton of apps in BlackBerry's app that you can download and sort of improve your device as you'd like so in conclusion it's a blackberry and it's probably the best BlackBerry out there so if you know you're getting yourself into if email is important to you you want to slim form back you need a QWERTY keyboard you can deal with the bit smaller spring and you get on a dedicated touchscreen device like the storm you're not going to find much better than being bold in 9700 t-mobile service was very strong this is a apply for Mesmer release on other carriers so you can share this review for those as well but at least on t-mobile service it works very very quickly and I was very impressed so on a one to five scale I really be hard pressed not give it a five it does exactly what what you know it's going to do it doesn't pretend to do anything differently the BlackBerry OS is sort of tried and true and if anybody's picking up a blackberry you really know what you're getting so guys hope you enjoy it so John Ranger from TechnoBuffalo for all your tech news be sure to check out the website and for exclusive content give me a follow on Twitter twitter.com slash John four 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