I saw a friend's Bold 2 recently and it was running BlackBerry OS 5. Of course I was jealous so I went to get it from AT&T.
Surprise! AT&T doesn't support it on the Bold. I wouldn't let that stop me. After reading about good experiences, I followed the instructions
here. It worked like a charm for me and I haven't had any of the problems the subsequent posters had. It took about 40 minutes end-to-end. I'm running v5.0.0.681. Realize that there are a couple of ".0"s in there so it's real early for v5.
The best recap of the new features I could find was
here and that was when v5 was still in beta.
Here're the handful of things I found different.
There's something different on the home screen. Maybe it is the highlighting of icons.
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The compose screen for SMS is different.
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In the Messages application, there is a capability I hadn't noticed before of flagging messages.
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In the Contacts application, the search is more obvious.
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The Media application has several changes. It includes icons for the Video Camera and the Voice Notes Recorder but not the Camera.
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It also has a search field like Contacts.
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When you're playing a song, the presentation is different and nicer. Ignore the boxes instead of proper text. That is because of
podshifter.
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One thing that took me a while to get resolved was that by default Media times out and closes after it is idle for 45 minutes. Here's where to set that.
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In the Browser, you can choose your default search provider from a nice drop-down menu.
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There are slick drop-down menus everywhere.
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Even Applications has a search field.
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RIM also includes icons to install Facebook and Twitter applications. While we're looking at this screen, all of my old applications came across and worked fine on v5. I did lose the internal settings of them and had to reestablish those, e.g.
GPSLogger.
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There's a nice new application called Files.
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Files is like Windows Explorer. You can navigate the file system either on the media card or the device memory.
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It even has viewers.
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Probably the nicest new feature is threaded SMSs.
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Reminds me of the
Treo 650! I blanked out the name in this screen capture.
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