The BlackBerry Bold, HTC Touch Pro and the Samsung Epix are all smartphones that take elements from both the consumer space and the enterprise market. All three phones have 3G, GPS, WiFi, microSD slots and video capture. The HTC Touch Pro and the BlackBerry Bold are about identical in price and the Samsung Epix is around $100 less on the initial purchase with contract. I’ve taken the time to put together a comparison post for these 3 phones.
BlackBerry Bold
The BlackBerry Bold, manufactured by RIM, is to date, the ultimate device for enterprise users. It has taken all the best features of their previous model, the Curve, and improved the specs across the board. The keyboard has a nicer ergonomic fit, the screen resolution is better, and the device feels great in your hand with its faux leather backing. This device is perfect for a consumer who is more interested in productivity than the usual time wasters that phones such as the iPhone provide.
Compared to the HTC Touch Pro, the Bold doesn’t necessarily offer much more in terms of software. Both offer a push email system and most applications that are made for BlackBerry are also ported to Windows Mobile. Therefore, the main difference comes in the aesthetics. The Bold fits nicely in your hands and writing emails is much nicer with an ergonomic design. The flat QWERTY keyboard of the HTC is a little on the awkward side. Also, the Bold’s processor is a little faster.
With respect to the Epix, the Bold is well matched in hardware specs except the Bold’s screen has a higher resolution. Once again, I would say the biggest plus for the Bold comes in its design. The Epix is far too reminiscent of the older Samsung smartphones such as the BlackJack. Once again, faux-leather and curves makes the phone.
BlackBerry Bold Specifications:
624MHz XScale processor
Size - Length: 114mm, Width: 66mm, Thickness: 14mm
Weight (with battery) - 133g
Memory - 1GB on-board (storage) and 128 MB Flash (applications)
Battery - 1500mAhr lithium cell
Display - HVGA, 480 x 320 pixels,
Camera - 2.0MP, 5 x digital zoom (with flash of course)
Headphone Jack (3.5mm)
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It seems your review puts the Touch Pro in the win simply based upon having a Touchscreen, which in reality, they all have.
BlackBerry Bold doesn’t have a touch screen. I think you’re thinking of the BlackBerry Storm.
The Epix offers everything the Touch Pro does hardware wise. Who cares about included software? You know the first thing people do is cook their own Windows OS versions to exclude useless software crapware. My personal opinion is that the Epix running leaner and not including an additional browser is a plus since Opera isn’t stuck wasting ROM space when SkyFire is my browser of choice.
The Touch Pro offers a larger screen which as a result is a much thicker slider phone. Here it is give and take. Personal choice. Samsung’s screens also have a lot higher DPI quality for more detailed finer looking graphics.
Samsung also offers a lot better build quality then HTC devices inside and out.
I fail to see any true comparisons here which puts any 1 device over another. The Epix can do everything a Touch Pro can do plus has a faster processor. Blackberry is a completely different Operating system completely and in no way can you compare them directly.
Touch Pro
+ Larger screen 640×480
+ Larger QWERTY
+ 3mm Audio Plug
Touch Pro
- Thick
- Slider
- Slower Processor
- Lower Screen DPI
- No Alternative Input Methods (ie Optical Mouse)
- Smaller battery
Epix
+ Thinner
+ Bigger battery
+ Faster Processor
+ Touchscreen + Optical Mouse/Optical Dpad + Keyboard
+ Higher screen DPI
Epix
- Smaller screen 320×320
- Proprietary Audio/Charger Plug
Sounds like the Epix has it where it needs it.
Nice thanks for comment!
I’m curious, can you change the Epix’s classic WinMo interface into a TouchFLO 3D interface? I just find that interface so unnecessarily complicated.
Having both devices… I find the 3rd party FTouchSL works much better then actual TouchFlo. Finger gestures in the smaller scroll boxes seems much easier on the Epix/FTouchSL vs Fuze/TouchFlo.
The Fuze does have a nice screen, but the high resolution on such a small screen greatly reduces the onscreen items. Luckily they have a very nice “Large Start Menu” hack going on which makes it more finger friendly. Also the touch-sensitive D-pad allows text resizing and zoom functions in many apps which helps also.
I’m finding it awkward to text one handed on the Fuze, which was easy on the Epix.
If you took the hardware from the Epix and put the software from the Fuze… you’d have a perfect device.
You are of course allowed to express your views on the phones but when 99% of people prefer the Touch Pro… it seems you maybe wrong.
On both the Fuze and Epix you can utilize the transcriber to write notes, text, emails, calendar events, etc.
Works really well.
The threaded Win Mo 6.1 text messaging isn’t as good as the old Palm threaded ap, but it works well.
The battery is great, 7 hrs talk time!
The Bold has an amazing screen, but seems to drop a few more calls than the Curves or the Epix.