A Bold Epic Fail for Typepad blogging & other Blackberry Bold annoyances

It's Tuesday, with the Warcraft servers being down, I felt I needed a catchy title so that I could drive more readers to my blog :)

So it has been a week since I bought the Blackberry Bold, and I have to say, I like it a lot, but there are a few annoyances I discovered along the way to digital nirvana that I would like to share with my readers.  (All 4 of you... hi mom).

What I like about the Bold

• It replaces my Ipod Nano and with Blue-tooth support, I can listen to my tunes over my radio's FM channel.

• Wireless LAN and 3G coverage works great at work.  Other then my bosses office, the device works in the deepest bowls of the NIH Clinical Center.

• The plug-ins for Web 2.0 sites works pretty well (with one exception ... see annoyances).  I upload a lot of content to my Facebook page.  I might start using twitter, since it is NIH / Federal Government friendly.

• Games play pretty well, but cost $10.00 each if you want unlimited usage.  Not a huge selection, but it has Poker, Chess, Casino Games, and Civ 4... so I am covered.

What annoys me about the Blackberry Bold

• There was an annoying pop-up window when entering my device password.  If the password contains a number in it, after the 5 key-press it flashes a window telling you to press ! to make an Emergency Call.  Thus messing up the flow to the 6th character and causing a bad password entry.  Solution was easily found on the forums... just make sure our password doesn't have numbers and the message doesn't come up.

• When using the GPS, or watching a long video, the screen blanks out if there is no input on the keyboard.  I get the idea of extending battery life, but I would prefer that the keyboard just lock when using these two applications.  I am still messing around with the settings to identify a possible workaround... please comment if you have a solution.

• The built-in camera is great, but I find that I get a lot of shake when pressing the button to snap the photo.  I wish it had a timer so that I could steady the shots more.

• The Typepad application doesn't have an auto save option so if you mess-up on long posts, you lose all the text.  I wrote this article last week using the mobile blogging tool, but it wigged out during the post option and I lost the work.  That makes me a sad panda.

• It took many attempts to get my phone ported over to my device.  This isn't a device option, but AT&T and Verizon seem to not tell time the same, so don't count on them meeting any pressing deadlines.  It took over 72 hours for the number to be ported correctly.

• I couldn't look up other peoples wish-list on Amazon, just my own.

Overall, I am very pleased with the device, and I look forward to more enhancements as the device matures.

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