It’s been a while! I did get the BlackBerry Bold 9000 on the 2nd of January. I had one hell of a wait in the T-Mobile store! There was a different set of staff to the last time I went in and as we soon discovered everyone had been told to come back on Friday 2nd January for their upgrade… I felt so sorry for the staff they were clearly shattered. Words really cannot describe how much I love this thing. I’m a total BlackBerry fan anyway, but the Bold is just awesome. Everything about it is lush. You really have to see the screen on these things to believe it. I keep loading the same pictures on both the Bold and the iPod and the difference is staggering. They’ve also fixed the issue with the memory filling up and just wiping all your texts with no warning. Now you can set it to free up memory in the background (the dreaded ninja wipe) or just let it warn you. Soooo much better. Took a while to get used to the full QWERTY, but I’m there now. It’s bliss having WiFi and GPS on a phone too. They’re two things I’ve not had before because I kept hold of the BlackBerry Pearl 8100g instead of upgrading for a few years.

I’ve stuck a fair few apps on it already. Actually managed to get TwitterBerry and BerryStore to run which was nice. Would love a decent IRC client for it, but as I have the iPod Touch with me all the time anyway it’s no biggie. A lot of people have moaned about the poor battery life of the Bold compared to other BlackBerry devices, but once you get the latest firmware and manage your power settings it’s actually pretty good. I can get about 8 days out of it with WiFi/BlueTooth/3G only switched on when I need them. Admittedly I never make phone calls, rarely receive phone calls and haven’t been texting so much lately, but it does a fair amount of e-mail receiving. I also put it in bedside mode every night. Compare this with the iPod Touch which needs charging every 2 days or so even when it spends most of the day powered off! The thought of having to charge a phone every day horrifies me.

I got a message the other week on my BlackBerry about google sync. So now I have my Google calendar synchronizing with my BlackBerry calendar and it totally rocks! Cos I’m now using it a lot more I have my Outlook synchronizing with the google calendar too and also added my FaceBook events to my google calendar, I also used an application to enter all my facebook friends’ birthdays onto my google calendar.

So now everything is to hand on my BlackBerry. I love that thing soooo much. Screw Nokia and their shitty CS department. Though it will be nice to upgrade my Pearl in December. Looking forward to getting one with GPS, only thing mine is really missing.

…the lot of ya ;op

OK, not all of you are to blame… but you probably would have been given the chance.

I asked people to talk me out of buying the Nokia 770 Internet tablet (no it’s not a phone before you say “didn’t you just get a Blackberry Pearl?”). So anyway, after an entire day of “oh just buy it” and “go on, you know you want to” at work and on IRC/e-mail/MSN…….. I’ve now ordered the bloody Nokia N800. I only went to the Nokia UK shop to have a look at it, and the entire page was filled up with a big picture of the N800 with a big green BUY IT button.

I am weak.

I’d been trying to justify it. Cool though it is. Couldn’t I really have just got a cheap PDA & stuck linux on it? Well yeah I could, but when I saw what was on offer at Maemo I was gobsmacked. I am planning to have some fun with this. Possibly changing my contract with t-mobile soon anyway, so I may see if I can jiggle things about a bit so I can easily afford the £10 a month for the unlimited (up to 30GB a month… mental no?) wifi access thingy. We have 2 Starbucks in Reading now. Shame one isn’t nearer my office. Then there’s the Turtle and its wifi. I may have to start socialising just to get the most out of this thing!

It’s fuckin’ sweet as though :oD