Blackberry Bold – 2nd impressions (the things Vodafone didn’t tell you!)

So I’m on my second one.  You need to know there are two versions of this phone; the enterprise version for use with a big company mail server (BES) and what they call the prosumer version (BIS); this is the one individuals need.  Before you do a thing… go to http://www.mobileemail.vodafone.net/ and create a log on and set up your email account.  It is as easy as enter your email and password and the PIN of your Blackberry (from the side of the box) .  Then turn on the phone.  You don’t seem to need to do any configuration on the Bold at all.  I bought a £5 pm data package which sends me my mail every 15 minutes (I hadn’t expected this, and I can’t see why you need to pay the extra for the full blackberry package.  I’m getting a very good bundle of minutes and texts plus data for less than £30pm.

They give you free access to Vodafone SatNav, but don’t bother to load it!  you need to go to go to the telmap site to download it.  (I got called by Telmap after posting this blog and told that this only applies to a small number of early machines and the later ones should come properly loaded)

With the desktop management software, do not enable the Bluetooth option, it seems to mess up its ability to find the USB connection; I have had to uninstall and reinstall 4 times now!

You probably should download Opera mini too which is meant to be a faster browser.  You can configure one browser to default to your wifi connection and the other to connect via GPRS

The voice dialling is a computer generated system, and the way to get it to work is to say the full name so “Call Charlie Brown mobile“

It is looking rather a nice device, sits nicely in the hand, nice and clear, both visually and acoustically.  I’ll let you know more anon.

PS>> http://vfuk.navigator.telmap.com/vfuk/download/Rim/9000/vfsatnav_uk_bis_full.jad

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