Comments on: Round Robin: TiPb vs. BlackBerry Bold Video Preview

By: Mr.Carrot46

Mr.Carrot46 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:14:53 +0000

If you cant work the sliders, then you may need to resort to some primmage. ,

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:19:08 +0000

Bold loses, but is still the best BB to date. Thanks for the great review!

By: James

James — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:42:52 +0000

Bold….loses

By: Jordan Hanna

Jordan Hanna — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:42:52 +0000

IPHONE WINS

By: rya lab

rya lab — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:05:50 +0000

Wooo! Let’s go! I wanna win me some prize-age!

By: Amani

Amani — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:37:03 +0000

Excellent!

By: pinguino1

pinguino1 — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:48:08 +0000

Nobody mention the bold is HUGE with the smallest sreen of all. It's the tallest and widest phone among all the new phones. But also the smallest screen. (Sq inches:) - Fuze 8.06 - G1 10.10 - Treo 10.60 - iPhone 11,20 - Bold 11.66 Bold with the smallest screen is even bigger than the HD with a 3.8" screen

It's a huge tablet to hold in your your hand and put in your face. It's a good phone but there is no point of comparing to the iPhone. Two different animals.

By: CindyB

CindyB — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:40:31 +0000

Nice review. I’m holding out to see what Palm brings out at CES.

By: palmcrash

palmcrash — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:09:09 +0000

One of the great benefits of a physical keyboard is shortcuts: R for reply, F for forward, etc. Forget the endless menus!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:07:17 +0000

Muhahahaha……The Bold is King! All Hail the BB Bold!!!

By: Unkle Grouch

Unkle Grouch — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:08:03 +0000

Very nice review

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:24:41 +0000

Though the browser is awesome on the iphone, nothing compares to a blackberry! Especially the Bold!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:34:33 +0000

I was a previous owner of the iPhone (sorry guys), and have converted to a BB lover ever since my change. I have a VZW Curve and I don’t know how I ever lived without one before (heheh). I do think I’ve outgrown it as I look at the Bold and the Storm with drool on both sides of my mouth. Not sure what side of the fence I’ll fall on but I’m not going back to an iPhone. Again, sorry folks

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:38:48 +0000

pick me

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:20:55 +0000

The bold is a beautiful phone.

By: cjreedjr2

cjreedjr2 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:08:23 +0000

clash of the titans

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:00:50 +0000

You’ve got mail!

By: Eliot Hong

Eliot Hong — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:20:23 +0000

sick review!!!

By: RIExecutive

RIExecutive — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:07:23 +0000

IPhones are great if you don’t manage a business, so are G-1′s, but Blackberry’s are still king if you are a business person or just really busy…

Note: People dont buy them for games, whatever you type you can make a million errors- just hit menu and spell check. Duhhhhhhh……I find the spell-check in my Curve to be better than Word…

By: StarrsNana

StarrsNana — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:26:10 +0000

Have the best of both worlds, get a BlackBerry Phone and an iPod Touch.

By: Chad Strunk

Chad Strunk — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:26:57 +0000

At least RIM will partner to all carriers…iPhone’s number one problem in the US is AT&T.

By: iphones shit and u know it

iphones shit and u know it — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:16:48 +0000

give me a bold ANYDAY.

By: Unkle Grouch

Unkle Grouch — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:52:14 +0000

Great review, hope i win an iPhone though

By: Alan Friedman

Alan Friedman — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:45:34 +0000

What a weird year for me…started with an “V” (model before the env), went to ATT for the original Iphone, could not receive a call while downloading on EDGE, went back to Verizon for the Voyager, switched to the rev A speed of the Dare, and lastly bought the Storm. The Bold looks nice , but I favor a touch screen.

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:09:52 +0000

Looks like a nice device!

By: James

James — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:07:12 +0000

mmm….the keyboard’s nice haha

By: Dimietriev

Dimietriev — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:49:11 +0000

sexy phone… well, both are.

By: talljason

talljason — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:33:41 +0000

For the iPhone!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:08:43 +0000

Great Pamela Anderson reference, loved it.

By: Derek Wienke

Derek Wienke — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:01:28 +0000

Bold prevails…

By: Meg

Meg — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:17:53 +0000

haha great review very entertaining! Bold is awesome!

By: Sebast

Sebast — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:10:27 +0000

If only there was some way to combine the iPhone and Bold into one superphone. Then I’d be happy.

By: julikeadobo

julikeadobo — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:06:55 +0000

The iphone and the Bold are both are great phones!

By: CapnDap

CapnDap — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:27:27 +0000

the GAYphone please.

By: tiddas

tiddas — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:04:45 +0000

I’m an iPhone user and I want that keyboard.

By: Rey

Rey — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:27:33 +0000

I am an iPhone user who came from Blackberries. The menu sytem of blackberries is a good thing and a bad thing. It allows you to customize a lot but there are menus everywhere. And if your looking to customize something specific, it can be hard to figure out which menu to use: within the app? Main settings? Advanced settings? Blackberries are centralized around menus and the menus are all over the place. Not user friendly in my opinion. Don’t get me wrong though, I love the Bold, that’s why it’s frenemy #1

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:35:00 +0000

HA! @Joeh4x...

or maybe it was a poor shot at irony?

Anyway, great review! I'm a Bold user in a relationship with an iPhone dweeb. That goes well beyond frenemies..

By: Dan Hinze

Dan Hinze — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:15:06 +0000

Great Review! Had been on the fence with the two devices but your review has convinced me to fall fruit side. I’ll take that iPhone, please!

By: James R

James R — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:13:34 +0000

The Bold looks pretty great to me.

By: K P

K P — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:59:54 +0000

Wow, it sure is….uh… shiny.

By: ojv

ojv — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:34:49 +0000

Good review. I had both the iPhone 3G and the Bold. Still not sure which I prefer though.

By: ilikephones

ilikephones — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:13:12 +0000

Back button – gimmie, gimmie, gimmie!

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:56:29 +0000

@Joeh4x:

Not only is your comment riddled with bad grammar, but you also misspelled the word grammar (not to mention other words). Perhaps you typed it on that piece-of-sh*t phone of yours.

Looks like we all know who the “complete moron” is.

By: dknyberry

dknyberry — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:49:16 +0000

Merry Christmas!

By: Tk

Tk — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:27:03 +0000

the back button! wooooooot! lol multiple ways of spelling, bruce lee training method, HAHAHA blackberry claw…lol

By: Prashan

Prashan — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:00:44 +0000

Nice review… I got a chance of playing around with both iPhone 3G and Blackberry Bold at Rogers, still can’t make up my mind with which one I want to go for…. may be both (I buy Blackberry and then I win the iPhone 3G here…. )

By: joeh4x

joeh4x — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:41:46 +0000

Im sorry, your just a complete moron. First off your gramar was horrible when talking about not typing good. Second off, you don’t like to manage memory on your phone? That’s maybe that worst apalogetic defense i’ve heard for the iphone only being able to run 1 program at once, excluding core programs. Jesus man, get off your high horse. The iphone is technology from 3 years ago. Your amazing OS is a bunch of shortcuts on 1 screen, and the browers is based on webkit. YOu can get webkit browsers for any phone. Ill take skyfire over safari any day.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:36:38 +0000

you’re so popular with all your messages lol. the bold is sexy.. next to the iphone of course (;

By: Devonair

Devonair — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:49:17 +0000

The size of the Bold actually has never seemed “large” to me… but then again, its about the same size as a Treo.

By: derek

derek — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:45:58 +0000

Great review. iPhone 3G!

By: Anthony Sampilo

Anthony Sampilo — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:45:35 +0000

Want tha iphone 3g…heard it was a great device and ive been reading reviews on it….blackberry bold and iphone unstoppable team lol

By: E Pow

E Pow — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:27:56 +0000

Great review. If it wasn’t for the iphone I would be a Blackberry lover.

By: Kevin Michaluk

Kevin Michaluk — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:56:37 +0000

If I comment here can I win an iPhone? Or I guess I’m probably excluded since I’m an editor in the Smartphone Round Robin…hehehe

Just wanted to say awesome review!!!

By: Alan Brinkman

Alan Brinkman — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:52:07 +0000

Love my Blackberry! Wish I could rent an Iphone to see if i liked it

By: Cody

Cody — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:48:31 +0000

Good review!

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:33:17 +0000

If my works wants to buy me one, I wouldn’t complain…

By: Blueline

Blueline — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:13:28 +0000

GREAT VIDEO, I WAS LAUGHING LIKE CRAZY. EVEN THOUGH IT IS A BLACKBERRY I MUST SAY I LIKE THE LOOKS OF THE BOLD ALOT. IF I WERE TO GET A BB THE BOLD WOULD BE THE ONLY WAY TO GO.

By: Desconocido

Desconocido — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:06:04 +0000

My iphone is nice, but this blackberry looks outstanding! I think I will be switching soon.

(I can't do it. I'm really a bb user. I just felt like being a wisea**, hehehe, sorry)

Nice review, though.

By: isamu49

isamu49 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:38:20 +0000

Ah, my cheap company wants to pay for a phone plan but not for the phone itself. I’m trying to get away from Windows Mobile, this generation just isn’t in the same league as these other devices.

By: talljason

talljason — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:37:15 +0000

Very nice review. It’ll help to learn some of the shortcuts, but even that’s a little hard with one week. It took me a month or two to just use shortcuts.

By: dbizzy

dbizzy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:14:55 +0000

i really like the look of that? what carriers have it in the us? my iphone just isn’t cutting it for email and texting and i like the looks of the blackbery

By: Alain

Alain — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:13:19 +0000

Nice review. My wife and daughter have the iPhone. I have a Curve 8310. I have to say that using both platforms, I find the iPhone to be awesome… at games. But in real day to day life, I’ll take my Blackberry any day. I’ll be upgrading to a Bold.

By: HuskyHawk

HuskyHawk — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:57:41 +0000

It seems that even Rene is having a hard time finding too much fault with the Bold. It’s just a very good PDA that does everything well. Probably the most well rounded device in the round robin. I look forward to your final take.

By: JerryD

JerryD — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:04:48 +0000

Just some FYI’s.

The “fake” buttons on the bottom of the sides of the Bold are power contacts for a Charging Pod: http://www.shopblackberry.com/blackberryaccessories/cgi-bin/pd.cgi?frompage=category&page=productdetail&from_category=BlackBerry%20Bold&category=BlackBerry+Bold+Chargers&pid=F2222X26M2J9PNVTGW7

When you place the Bold into the Pod, the Clock will display, and the Clock application can also enter “Bedside” mode which can optionally turn off the LED notifier, disable the Radio, and dim the screen.

Also, you can use the Space bar to scroll down in the Browser.

Finally, you can usually tap the first letter of a menu item to get to it quickly, so when you’re in the Browser, instead of having to scroll forever to find Options, you hit Menu –> O –> [Enter] to get into the Options.

There’s a wealth of shortcuts – including the Shortcut Keys (http://blackberryforums.pinstack.com/blogs/jdellasala/680-homescreenshortcutkeysqwertydevicesonly.html?referrerid=3389) and lots more!

Give a yell if you need any tips! Nice review BTW.

Jerry

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:57:35 +0000

Good review. More positive than I expected from an iPhone user.

By: .m.e.

.m.e. — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:52:11 +0000

that bold is a nice phone !!

By: AZBear3G

AZBear3G — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:48:09 +0000

Great review. I enjoyed the pings a lot.

By: joeS

joeS — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:32:57 +0000

Its amazing how many features you were using on Bold that do not exist on an iphone that were just second nature i.e. Menu button. every app you are in on blackberry has a menu that can do so much. This is the one HUGE thing the iphone is missing. it allows you to forward or reply to a msg from msg view without opening. You can select multiple msgs and mark as read. you can SEARCH you inbox. iphone for email is a complete JOKE.

By: Patrick b

Patrick b — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:10:37 +0000

This is great. Good job

By: ilgoat

ilgoat — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:45:58 +0000

You might want to clean and cut your nails before showing your hands in a video again.

By: Me_Too

Me_Too — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:42:34 +0000

Nice review!

By: Bla1ze

Bla1ze — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:39:01 +0000

Nice review Rene, a few things off for the comments about the spell check and the “fake” buttons, but I’m sure by now you have realized what I’m referring too, from the comments here and just usage of the device. Can’t wait to hear your final take!

By: daddynautilus

daddynautilus — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:37:44 +0000

All you do to copy and paste is go into the options. I dont know how it is on the Storm yet since I will finally be getting it next week. I still don’t get it. I’ve played with the Iphone way before my first Blackberry and still enjoyed RIM’s device better. To me the Iphone is an over glorified psp. That being said, I would rather have an Iphone on all trips and to waste time because of the games/app store. Oh well.

By: Dimietriev

Dimietriev — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:35:17 +0000

I like your initial love of the keyboard.

By: Jason Tucker

Jason Tucker — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:26:48 +0000

Good review. I too wanted to know if you tried out how word processing features on the device.

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:05:44 +0000

Good review. Please cut and clean your nails next time though before doing a video review. hehe j/k

By: Siha

Siha — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:05:25 +0000

The “fake buttons” you refer to are actually the contact points for the new style dock/cradle they came out with.

By: libby

libby — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:46:20 +0000

and so it continues. if i could combine a few phones I would be a happy camper.

By: Unkle Grouch

Unkle Grouch — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:43:11 +0000

Great review!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:40:04 +0000

From someone coming from an iPhone and just starting to work with the Bold, I thin kit was a good review. Just remember, pressing P will take you to the previous e-mail/message and N will take you to the next, so you don’t always have to go into the menu to access options.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:33:46 +0000

Didn’t I see that hideous contraption in an old movie?

By: The Reptile

The Reptile — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:33:06 +0000

Rene, nice job of inserting humor in what would otherwise be a review of a truly boring and passe product. Ping…gotta go.

By: Amani

Amani — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:28:19 +0000

Excellent (P)Review!

By: Will

Will — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:25:28 +0000

Ok. This guy obviously does not know a thing about blackberry. They have spellcheck, and the iphone does not render GIF files, as blackberry does -- at least the Curve I am using does.

I could go on, but i'll save it for my I-phone co-worker. We go at it all day lol.

By: RobGom

RobGom — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:12:44 +0000

That has got to be the most entertaining review I've read throughout all of the Round Robin Posts so far. Rene cracks me up! Seriously.

While I am a Crackberry addict, I really enjoyed listening to his take and humor on the Bold. So much so, that I may even look at an iphone as a secondary device.

Yeah, he was that good.

By: Sepehr

Sepehr — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:01:39 +0000

its still a cool phone. but i want the iphone

By: iAirmanshirk

iAirmanshirk — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:58:34 +0000

Its so painful to watch blackberries being used hahaha

By: JK

JK — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:44:45 +0000

Good Review!

By: Touch Me

Touch Me — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:22:21 +0000

I suppose the big news is Jobs shunning Macworld and Palm’s upcoming announcement, but Rene’s video is a fun few minutes… ping! Yeah, trying to hold a conversation with a Blackberry owner is an exercise in frustration as they never seem to pay attention to you… ping!

By: Jhauser

Jhauser — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:17:27 +0000

I have been looking forward to this review. I love(d) my BlackBerry and have been thinking about going back, but the iPhone just does everything I need it to do.

By: Dorthensensens

Dorthensensens — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:01:58 +0000

Ping!

By: Rylan

Rylan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:56:00 +0000

If the iPhone didn’t exist, I’d probably have a bold. Though I love my iPhone to much.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:53:52 +0000

Good review also wondering how the copy and paste works on the bold because i had a treo and it was simple with the touchscreen and wondered how would that work with non touchscreen berries thanks ahead of time

By: Bela

Bela — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:48:54 +0000

Great review. I wanted to know if you tried out how word processing worked on the bold and if there was any cut and paste.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:47:59 +0000

That’s a nice look at the Bold – I’m looking forward to your final review when you look at the media player when compared to the iPhone.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:46:37 +0000

Is that a waffle on your ear? Oh wait. It’s just a Blackberry.

Seriously, my wife has a Curve (although she secretly covets my iPhone 3G), and although she was considering the Bold, she decided against it because it was just too big.

By: Jordan Hanna

Jordan Hanna — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:35:26 +0000

First post!! Nice review btw