Blackberry OS5
by David Dolphin on Feb.04, 2010, under Phone
I upgraded my Blackberry 9500 (Storm 1) to OS5 this week from OS4.7. There are a few new features this brings that I like, and a drawback or two.
Pro’s:
- Major speed improvements. The OS is no longer sluggish, without removing any applications or data.
- gTalk, BBM and AIM status updates are shown when viewing a contact.
- Ability to Flag E-Mail’s for follow up.
- Bedside mode can be restricted to only activate within certain hours.
- Threaded bubble SMS interface, akin to the iPhone.
- Saner Keyboard layout in Landscape mode.
- New Font BBAlpha Sans Condensed allowing more characters on screen while keeping readability, a major UI boost.
- Macro shooting mode for camera.
- Radio is no longer disabled when battery is low. This was a real pain.
Con’s:
- Links between gTalk and the Contacts application break frequently, I haven’t been able to pin-point a cause.
- Still no useful E-Mail folders or filters. I can flag a mail for follow up, but I can’t see a list of just the mail’s i need to follow up, or a list of drafts.
- gTalk requires two lines per user. Before you could view 15odd users at a time, now it’s more like 6.
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