got me one of these...its a Bold 3 (9780)
fastest and most problem free berry i've owned up to date...i pass through a 8320 (1st gen curve with wifi NO gps), 8310 (1st gen curve with gps NO wifi), 8800 (1st gen world your/world phone), 8900 (javelin), 8520 (2nd gen curve), 9550 (storm 2) so far,....and well now onto my 1st in d Bold series...i'm impressed...best built device so far out of the bunch i owned...now see why blackberry consider the Bold series their flagship series...
keyboard supposedly is the best keypad blackberry ever bring out daz why they use the same exact keypad in most of their high end phones...bold 1 9000, bold 2 9700, bold 3 9780, tour 9630, torch 9800 and other high end blackberries seemn to lean towards this same exact keypad just in diferent colors
i's ok but IMO not the best keypad d brand ever had...i rather the spaced out keys like what the curves have, ESPECIALLY the 83** curves...they're easier to press and less likely to make erros...only think i dont like wit all curve keypads is the annotying click they make while typng whereas the Bold style keypad iz completely silent
this is the keypad for the javelin
and this is the 8300 series keypad
^^^best keypad IMHO!!!
curve 8520 uses the same as the javelin and the storm 2 uses either optical qwerty or optical suretype which takes a few days almost a week to get used to..
WRT to a comparison to a Bold 2...i'd say the bold 3 is an excellent upgrade if u comin out of the javelin or curve series....but if u already have a Bold 2 u won't appreciate the upgrade cuz it's physically the same phone...jes double the RAM and better camera...Bold 2 have 256MB RAM and the bold 3 have 512MB RAM...so the doubled RAM comes in very useful to properly run OS6 which compared to OS5 is chalk and cheese...the Bold 2 can do an OS update of OS6 and runs pretty smooth,...but the Bold 3 is more capable of running OS6 more effiiciently given that it has double the RAM
camera is far more beter...talk dun..lolz...the camera on the Bold 3 is in fact clearer and better than the Torch's even though they both are supposedly to have d same 5MP camera...d camera on d Bold 3 is less laggy and shows truer colors on the LCD
compared to the torch it alls come down to if u want a candybar (1 piece) blackberry or a sliding one with a big screen...i chose d candybar 1 piece bold cuz i doh trust sliding touch screen phones wit d amount of messaging i do...and i heard the touch screen isnt that accurate on the torch so most ppl use the keypad to type instead of the touch qwerty...i did fraid that constant sliding up and down of the torch wudda wear out the strip in it quick as i do plenty messaging from meh phone per day...
even though the specs on both the torch and the bold 3 are the same (same processor and same RAM, same camera too) only thing is different besides the physical aspects of the both is the internal device storage in which d torch blows out d bold 3 in...bold 3 have 256MB internal storage and d torch have 4gigs...so u dont really need a memory card with a torch unless u happen to full up that 4gb somehow...but this is really minor to me...cuz i didnt even full up the 2gb memory card in my storm 2 when i had it...
battery life on d Bold 3 is excellent...i unplug meh phone from charger this morning and used d phone alot to download stuff from d app store, type on bbm, and jes use normal functions of d phone and it still on 3/4 battery...doing those same stuff on my storm 2 i wudda hadda charge back d phone since 2pm cuz it wudda be blinking on red...i suprised i dont even need to charge d phone before leaving work
..on gsmarena they have d specs that the bold 3 talk time is longer than the torch too...so it has better battery life than the torch by bout 40 minutes - 1 hour on talk i believe
overall, its a real good phone if u want somn that gonna last u long and u lookin at most practical instead of bling...if u want the best cosmetically lookin blackberry in d market right now and u wanna feel like u get d MOST out of ur money spent then get the torch as the bold 3 and the torch is a few hundreds difference in price...if u want somn more reliable IMO den go wit d bold 3
