Artful Code

I just bought the Blackberry Bold 9930 with OS 7′ newly available from Verizon (I have heard that the Torch will be available later this week). After some very hairy experiences with OS 6, I was both excited and anxious to experience the new OS on a handset with the hardware to run it well.

I have been using Blackberry OS 6 on my Bold 9650 (pre-installed) for a few weeks. I love some of the new functionality, especially search and the new context menus. Search works very similarly to Spotlight on OSX. The new context menus do a good job of splitting common contextual options out of the BB menu. I also like the quicker boot time.

After silently drooling over the usefulness of my wife’s iPad for the last few months, I finally gave in to temptation and decided to get a tablet. Of course, being a Blackberry man, I was ecstatic about the release of the Playbook. The Playbook OS is QNX, and ultra fast, light-weight, real time unix that I have been a fan of since college. I always felt that it would have been a wonderful system for Apple to have built OSX on, but it seems that Blackberry at least gets to beat Apple to the punch on something, anyway.