RIM's BlackBerry Bold slider with OS 6 does a little dance, gets down tonight (video)
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posted May 8th 2010 3:35AM
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@xdeiri The only thing this has in common with the Kin 1 is that it's a portrait slider. You're over-exaggerating. They really look nothing alike.
@CapnShiner
take a good look they look exactly the same
Going out on a limb here RIM seems lost to me as far as keeping up design wise. This slide phone can't be the new hipe (palm pre). I need blackberry to stay blackberry and improve software wise.
meh, just a Blackberry, all the business men will drool over this though...
I like it!!. Now if OS 6 lives up to the hype were in there. I also like how they are trying to keep all the features that make corporate america loves BB's.
No! We are not trying to imitate the genius form factor of the Palm Pre.
John Lazaridis
Sent from my Blackberry
@fizix
>implying the Palm Pre was the first to use said form factor
@fizix implying that the crappy sliding mechanism on my palm pre is genius.
It's not photogenic from the side (too thick)
Palm Pre ripoff
That is one hell of an ugly phone; it looks really clumsy and dated, and far too bulbous in all the wrong places. It looks like the antithesis of something like the 9700, which has been honed and tightened in the hardware design with each generation so that now it looks sleek and fit-for-purpose (even if OS 5.0 is starting to look a tad dated). This, on the other hand looks neither as cute as a Pre nor as sleek as that Dell Windows Phone 7 portrait slider that was leaked some days back. Not impressed RIM.
@meeku
Totally agree, but maybe BB 6 is just a stopgap between a okay device and a great device, like how WinMo 6.5 was to 6 and 7.
@kickerbockeragua: I actually don't think BB6 looks too bad; I think with the more usable media features and the polish that they've given the system, it actually looks moderately attractive (even if there's nothing groundbreaking there), and helps it break out of the 'business phone' mindset a little bit.
So long as it's as snappy to use, interface-wise, as OS 5, then I'm sure it'll be okay, especially with a WebKit based browser allowing you to actually view the web without everything looking all jangled-up. One unknown is that I'm not sure what it'd be like to operate on traditional, i.e. non-touchscreen BlackBerry devices, so I'm eager to see how it turns out.
So the thing I was really complaining about with this phone is just the hardware - it's just so ugly, which I see as a bit of a cardinal sin when there are so many exciting phones already on the market, or scheduled for release within the next 3-9 months.
should be renamed the BlackBerry Slide, no?
Hope that it is a capacitive touch screen and not that awful SurePress tech. If 6.0 is somewhat good and there is no Sure Press, then RIM might finally have a contender. But then again they always seem to let me down...
God help me-I think I like it.
Oy vey.. RIM gives Canada a bad name..
@jellotime91
Hey, don't get tooo carried away there....... Nickelback and Justin Bieber are worse.
looks like a bigger KIN ONE
The last slider I had was the Samsung D500 way back when. For me a slider doesn't suit me and rim hit the form factor perfectly with the Bold 9700.
As for the operating system. I liked OS5. Yes it isn't fancy and can't do some of the stuff that the iPhone OS and Android can do, but it does what it needs to.
Anyway I digress. If Rim spec this phone out correctly then I can see it being very popular.
I must admit it looks kind of sexy, I have a tour that I love so I might keep my eyes on this.
Where's the Android portrait slider?
I'll wait for a shot in a better lit room.
But for now, it's actually kinda sexy IMO.
Really? You're making a video of a sweet new phone and its 14 seconds? No using it or sliding it open and closed or interacting with the interface? That sucks.
The phone however does look promising hardware wise.
Wow now that I actually see it in action and it's not too blurry this is nice phone. Good job RIM, but I'm still leaving you (Blackberry Curve 8330) for the Evo 4G
Video guy... you're STUPID. SLIDE THE EFFING MECHANISM! USE THE UI! How is it that people with SO LITTLE consideration get access to such desirable things early? Can only tards find these? Video reviewers are notoriously disorganized, rambling tards who haven't a CLUE how to light a subject they're videoing.
Would be nice if the video worked.
FAIL.
@lindros2
You using an ipad or something? Works fine.
Not bad, but I think I'd give up screen real estate for a thinner phone with a physical keyboard. I'd rather be able to comfortably write emails than watch video web browsing takes a hit, but for most BlackBerry users this has always been secondary to email.
Man I love Canadian companies and all but Blackberry hasn't ever appealed to me and they are just alienating me more with this fugly brick! Yikes, it looks like some strange mutant. Style wise, FAIL!
there's something wrong, he's not dancing while viewing the new BB OS !!
All I know is that rim better do something because android has taken
over of second placeand people are starting to forget about blackberry
stuff..
I just got rid of my blackberry tour and got a palm pre...this looks like a mix of the two.
Nice "Bold" labeling to 0:12
I think RIM is doing the Microsoft dance. Create all kinds of form factors and see what sticks.
I actually dreamt about this phone the other night ...
Blackberries are good phones but damn - they seem to be the last in line to evolve, especially compared to Android. I don't see that changing, especially when Windows 7 Phones come to town, either.
At the WES conference RIM showed off the 9650 which the only distinction between that and the 9700 is that it has an optical trackpad (which the entry level 8520 has) and double the ram of the 9700. Otherwise it is the same phone. Oh, and the pearl. Very OK phones.
This would have been a much more exciting phone that they could have showcased. Why they didn't show this, I have no idea. Why they didn't talk about Flash coming to Blackberry 2H of 2010 - I don't know. I do know that Adobe is rumored to be giving Android phones to all of its employees - not blackberries. That tells me that development on those devices is not going as smoothly in placing Flash on them, however.
I am looking forward to being able to download accessing a 20,000 app store as well and not the App Store of RIM which, leaves much to be desired in terms of quality of some of the development of the many of the applications.
Android, here I come.