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"The Bold's killer app, for many people, will be Wi-Fi calling. T-Mobile's @Home Wi-Fi system is the best voice-over-IP solution on the market—it's totally seamless and utterly easy. For $10 per month, you can make free calls over any Wi-Fi hotspot on earth.... The Bold is a pretty solid voice phone on the regular cellular network, too."

"Call quality is good, and the volume is nice and loud, though we can't help but feel the speaker phone is a bit weaker than the 9000's, but that could just be our weakening hearing, of course."

"Call quality is excellent, with plenty of volume available from the earpiece, and clear noise-free audio from the microphone."

"The actual ear speaker seems less recessed than previous BlackBerrys and we could hear callers loud and clear using the ear speaker."

"During our test calls, voice quality was very good. When talking to a friend on a landline, she said we sounded clear, and that she couldn’t hear any background noise. Likewise, we were able to hear her without any missed words."

"We tested the Bold 9700 in both New York City and Charlotte using T-Mobile's 3G network, and call quality was spectacular. Callers had no problem hearing us, and call quality was clear on our end as well."

"Call quality over T-Mobile's network was spotty at times. On a few of my calls, I heard a faint hiss in the background--I don't think this is an issue with the Bold's hardware, though, because I've heard this hiss on other T-Mobile devices."

"The Bold is an excellent media phone.... Music sounded rich and clear through wired headphones and an Altec Lansing BackBeat 903 stereo Bluetooth headset. Of course, the CLIQ can do all of this too, but what the Bold adds is sync. RIM's desktop software lets the BlackBerry sync with iTunes or your PC music and video libraries, which no Android phone does well."

"The Bold 9700’s crisp display made watching videos a pleasure, and it comes with a 2GB microSD Card for loading your own music and videos."

"BlackBerry OS 5.0's fairly plain native music app lets you view your library by song, artist, or genre. During playback, a miniature album thumbnail appears. The app also has playlist and shuffle features, and a headphone equalizer."

"The Bold is fast, clean, and a great messaging and media phone…"

"All the functions you'd hope for [in a media player] are there: shuffle, repeat, playlists and categorising by album/artist etc.... Couple that with a nice-looking album art displaying interface, and it's perfectly feasible the MP3 player on the 2 9700 could replace an MP3 player, providing you use a big enough microSD card."

"The Bold 9700 doubles as an adequate multimedia device for playing music and videos, and it comes with a 2GB microSD card for loading up your own conten.... The Bold 9700 syncs with music on a PC but...Mac users will have to be running above an OS 10.5 in order to sync with iTunes. Once music was successfully loaded onto the phone with another computer, creating playlists was an easy process."