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If you’ve been following my twitters over the last day, then you’d know that I’m quite excited that today was the day I got my new Blackberry Bold!

It was a painful wait today… but eventually, at about 4pm this arvo, the courier arrived with our brand new toys. I had seen the Bold before at a couple of different events, but to finally have my own is very exciting. And better still, to finally have it before a lot of other people was awesome. (We usually get pretty badly left behind as far as devices go - even though we’re supposed to be specialists in the area.) And like I said last week, to even have it before many other people in the world is incredible for Telstra.

Telstra's Blackberry Bold

First impressions are that it is just so light for what it is. And the screen resolution is amazing as well. They have updated the software that Blackberry runs on in a pretty massive way, so while it looks and acts similarly to previous models, there’s just so many new features that are more than skin deep.

I will be keen to set it up as a tethered modem and see how it performs – it’s a 3.6Mbps HSDPA device, so I’m expecting it to hopefully cruise along at about 1.5 – 2Mbps.

My device has just finished synchronising to the server, so I now have all my emails and everything set up the way I want it – right down to the little things, like that the profile is still on vibrate, which is exactly how I had my old BB set up before I took my sim card out about 2 hours ago. See, it’s those little things that make the whole Blackberry platform cool.

The fun begins tomorrow as I venture out to deliver a couple of devices to some “special” customers. Hoping that isn’t too much of a painful process and won’t destroy my whole day.

So, in my eyes, I’ve now achieved mobile perfection: an Apple iPhone 3G for my personal, and a Blackberry Bold 9000 for my work phone. Love it.

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