BlackBerry Bold

A long-overdue success for RIM, the BlackBerry Bold fixes most of the failings of past devices, such as poor keyboards and an abysmal browser. The Bold is the first BlackBerry to introduce both 3G and HSDPA data support. Not essential for email, but definitely a good move for heavy web use. The Bold can be hooked up to a computer via USB and used as a data modem. Users have the option to mate their BlackBerry to an Exchange or Lotus Notes server running the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) plug-in, or to buy it from a mobile network that offers a Prosumer service, whereby the mobile network provides the BES account, and you configure, via a web interface, access to up to 10 of your POP3/IMAP and Exchange email mailboxes. Web browsing on a BlackBerry has always been terrible. It's now had a complete rewrite to support iPhone-like full-page browsing, meaning you can view proper web sites exactly as you would on a desktop PC.