Woah.....looks dope

OH SNAP!

I'm trying to get my hands on one. How did you?

Looks nice!

Was he the one who paid $1995.00 dollars for this on eBay???

How is he going to download the new OS if his phone is always in reboot mode???

Thanks for taking the time to show us the phone. My wife is looking to buy a new BB soon. I'll have her check out your video too. I'm looking forward to the follow-up when the OS is working.

Bryan

http://smartphonenation.com/?p=1089

Kevin is the one who bought the phone off eBay.

I wonder how he can be so "sure" there will be more reviews in the upcoming days and weeks..

don't like the kbd on the bold, same for this one.. loving my 8900 big time!!

No, there have just been all of these people posting videos and pictures all over the internet for no reason. I'm tired of the skeptics, just BELIEVE people, BELIIIEEEEVEE!!

Dood... not sure what you do with that video camera in your spare time, but wipe off whatever is on the lens next time, pl0x. ;)

I wish I could talk VZW into letting me trade my Storm for this when it comes out.

It goes to show that jumping on the bandwagon just to say you have and awesome touchscreen BlackBerry isn't the best way to go.

Geez.

This phone looks awesome!
Thanks for taking the time to make the video for us!!

I wish I could talk VZW into letting me trade my Storm for this when it comes out.

It goes to show that jumping on the bandwagon just to say you have and awesome touchscreen BlackBerry isn't the best way to go.

Geez.

This phone looks awesome!
Thanks for taking the time to make the video for us!!

Fuzzy image but is that the Bold's keyboard basically?

How exciting for the CDMA folks!

Everytime I get a notice to check crackberry I get so excited when I hear more about the Niagara!!! I'm so ready for Verizon to get this phone!

i think this one is GSM too! it has SIM card Slot, like Storm 9530..

I want one. Always liked the form factor of the Curve, but wanted the power of the Bold. Jumped to a Storm, and will be landing with the 9630 when it's released. Thanks for the Vid!

pretty darn good! I Just picked up a storm and I am really enjoying the experience (except for the random freezes, lol). The storm should tide me over till may comes and around and this bad boy is released.

Is this the one sold on ebay?

How many times is he going to tell us how good it feels in his hands in this video lol

Well first let me thank the reviewer for providing an ergonomic review of the device. It's too bad the final operating system is not in it yet. Also, the video itself was unfortunately pretty blurry and dark. However, his efforts are appreciated. I'm pretty sure I'll swap out that plastic back cover for a nice leather one. Now let's just hope Verizon unleashes this early on in April.

I wonder how long he will have to wait for the software to use the phone?

Wow this is really nice. Too bad its not for T-Mobile! Either way I can buy it unlocked. Do I really want to give away my 8900??

The video makes the device more promising, sad that device never stopped rebooting. Even with 4.5 my 8330 is taking significantly longer to reboot, I thought this was the case here too as the Storm is the absolute worst rebooting experience ever for a BlackBerry. I think RIM's dinosaur OS is getting to heavy for itself and is causing all sorts of performance lags and issues. Time for a refresh of the OS and more quality into the building of their devices. I can say I am glad the whole back comes off as I thought only the thin part did which would of been awkward looking.

This looks awesome! I so can't wait until VZW brings it out! I'm going to have to pay full retail but I don't care!

Wasn't it said that this is supposed to be like the new "World Edition" one so I'm guessing that's why it's got the SIMcard slot so it'll be like CDMA and GSM? **Correct me if I'm wrong**

But I want it so bad now. I was going to break down and get a Storm but I really just can't do that 'virtual keyboard'. I need a full QWERTY that is touchable.

Oh well, I guess the 8830 is getting scrapped and I'm giving the Curve to the wife so I can get this one...

BUT...Maybe I can talk her into letting me use her NE2 for this one!

Any ideas on a date? I heard a speculation of like around May time frame... Anything more concrete? Because from the video with the OS constantly restarting, I'm probably going to think more towards the end of the year and another like Thanksgiving release time?

looks like a nice phone but i dont see why everyone hates the storm... get a leaked os, im running a .114/.113 hybrid and i have no problems at all. of course any early stage of a phone is going to be glitchy but i love my storm, even texting, and i do that a lot.

I wanna!

Sprint...? Hugh?

This phone is coming out to Verizon First, its a CDMA phone and verizon, does not have its latest edition upgrade to the 8830 or Curve yet....So Imagine that Verizon will pick this one up, considering the other carriers scopped up the Bold and 8900 Curve. I can't wait for it to come out, Im getting it. I have a storm but I miss the keyboard interface I had with my 8830...

I'll rock both phones..LOL

Hey salisa.m, any specs on it?

whats so special about it? looks like just another bold or whatever doesnt look like its anything to get excited over...

whats so special about it? looks like just another bold or whatever doesnt look like its anything to get excited over...

perhaps he can shoot another video in a few days that isn't grainy and out of focus so we can see what it really looks like. i have a storm but i would seriously consider going to this phone if verizon gets it.

Does it have the atomic trackball?? If it does, I think I will stop waiting for the touch-screen Bold and switch to Bell for this phone...

The one thing I had been wondering about after the latest set of pictures came out was the battery cover. I was beginning to think that only the slim middle section was the battery door and through, "how the heck do you get battery and SD card (plus, since this is a world phone, a SIM card) through that slim door!". I like th afact that the entire back comes off, and that the SIM slot and SD slot are not burried under the battery. It looks like everything under the battery door is easily accessible.

Hopefully there will be replacement battery doors in all different flavors, so if you want a leather-ish back, or a different color, you could easily switch up the looks of this phone.

It did look like the trackball on this model was the black one, like the 8900. This is definitely a welcome upgrade to the 8830WE!

As a true Blackberry addict, I'm really hoping that Sprint gets this phone... I will be inline whenever we get a new berry!

Boosh!

Sweet review. Only think I can say is buy a new camera and a tripod. ;)

Life as a Mac user & BB owner is kind of uphill..

Palm Pre promises no easier path for a Mac owner..

Love the slightly increased width of the keyboard on this

Despite being a big iPhone hater, typing on glass might be in my future...

i had the same problem when i updated a pearl to 4.5 with the micro card in it. some of the pics didn't have attributes on them so that was 1 reason. you can go to pinstack.com and it tells on there forums how to do it. and now my pearl works fine. just take out the card, wipe the phone, then reupdate to the new OS.

Do you guys/gals all use media cards? I think that's the common theme here.

Sometimes if an upgrade is done with the media card in the device, this will cause the rebooting issues you all are experiencing. In this case, you'll need to reinstall the OS without the media card and then reformat the media card in the device with the new OS. There could also be some corruption of data on the card causing the issue as well. Another Stacker (sherlockphones) came up with a great solution. See below:

Like many of you, after the OS upgrade I was plagued by constant rebooting as long as my media card was in my device. I found a solution that seems to be working well. Here it is.

1. Using Desktop Manager / Media Manager, copy the entire contents of your media card to your PC.

2. Format the media card using your 4.5 device.

3. Using Media Manager, I noticed that some of my pictures had nothing in the attributes column. Therefore, copy only those images that have attributes back onto the media card.

That seems to have done it for me. Just as a test I put a couple pics on the media card that had nothing in the attribute column and my device started rebooting again.

Within Roxio Media Manager, I used the top window to show the pictures on my PC and the bottom window to show my BB. The view defaults to "Thumbnails" because most people like that option. I changed it to to "Details" (select View\View As\Details).

Looking at it in this view, you'll see that your pictures are listed with 5 columns of information. Specifically they are File Name, File Size, Date Created, Attributes, and Date Modified. For the majority of my pictures, the Attributes column lists the pixels, bits, and dpi (i.e. 2592x1944 pixels, 24-bit, 180 dpi) but I noticed that some of them had that column blank.

Next I selected all of my pictures and then deselected those that had that column blank. When I transferred only the pictures with attributes information back to the media card it seems to have worked and I've had no problems since. Granted, this means I was not able to get all of my pictures back on the media card, but I only lost a few.
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