As my colleague was turning the office upside down looking for a USB lead adapter specific to a particular brand of kit, I asked myself for the millionth time why there aren’t universal standards in such fields. I’m talking camera memory cards, phone chargers and the like. The computer industry has long recognised this and USB has become a standard interface used the world over. I guess I can say goodbye to the rather large cardboard box I have in the garage full of obsolete adapters, leads and cables, not to mention the bag full of mobile phone chargers which I have amassed.

It’s

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Just a quick comment. I have been trying to get my hands on the new Blackberry Storm, to see what Blackberry are doing!

It really is an iPhone, all of the main benefits of the Bold, that make it stand out and differentiate why some people would buy a Blackberry, are almost non existent in the Storm, just a direct competitor. Why would you go for something that is not as good and only half as cool? Well the answer is (and it took a friend of mine to mention this to me) that lots of business users are locked into their business contract, and this is quite likely NOT to be O2, so they cant get

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Well, I normally don't 'go it alone' and review phones, but as a self confessed iPhone 'freak' I thought I should take a look at the Blackberry Bold to see what I was missing!

Actually, I had a conversation with David Terrar (http://www.biztwozero.com/) and he has done a review for his own blog and was telling me how the Bold was 'better'. Now once I got over the 'as if' attitude that anyone knocking the iPhone normally brings out in me, I thought, well, lets take a look.

I got hold of a Bold for a couple of days, so first, the declaration that I did not use the Bold for a prolonged period

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