BlackBerry Bold 9930: An Enterprise Evaluation

29.08.2011

On the upside, the Bold 9930's battery is removable, so you can buy a few extras and stash them in your travel bag, though right now, you'll have to shell out another .

My second complaint relates to the Bold 9930's camera. Though all of the newest BlackBerrys, and even a few of the older devices, have 5.0 megapixel digital cameras, some of them have different focus mechanisms. My issue with the Bold 9930 is that it doesn't focus very well on close-up objects, and as a result, it takes photos of notably lower quality than both of RIM's new BlackBerry Torch devices and even the original Torch 9800.

I believe RIM used a different camera lens or at least a different focus mechanism in the Bold 9930, probably due to the fact that the device is so thin, and the end result is that the new Bold doesn't take as high quality images as my old Torch, which is an unfortunate downgrade.

As stated earlier in this post the BlackBerry 7 software experience is vastly improved over the last generation of BlackBerry 6 devices; however, after using the device for a few weeks now and loading up most of usual applications and services, the Bold 9930 still lags just enough that it warrants mentioning. I definitely see the BlackBerry "clock icon" far less often than I did on BlackBerry 6 devices, but it does show occasionally. And I find the Bold takes its time "waking" up sometimes after I haven't touched for a while, leaving me furiously tapping the standby key atop the device or the keyboard until it turns back on.

My final "significant" complaint relates to the BlackBerry application ecosystem as a whole. It simply doesn't stack up to iPhone or Android application ecosystems. This isn't a new problem. And the issue stems from a number of reasons that I won't necessarily elaborate on here, but the bottom line is that both iOS and Android, the BlackBerry platform's two top rivals right now, currently offer a drastically superior application experience to BlackBerry. And businesspeople like apps, too.