It took almost 1 hour to run through all the upgrade process of my BlackBerry Bold 9700. Then... tada... I had it upgraded! And, I have BlackBerry Bold 9700 with OS 6 installed! Yes, it is very intuitive and nice to have. There are quite number of enhancements which I believe meant for the touch user interface in BlackBerry Torch. I was happily played around with it and explore the new interface and functionalities.
Well... then here comes the setback... in just a couple days, I was facing with the persistence hour glass, which means it became unresponsive because it did its background process... and finally realized that my BlackBerry Bold 9700 (Memory: 256MB) is facing Low Apps Memory... I have quite number of third party apps installed which consumed memory (before upgrade, it left only around 20MB free apps memory, but it still ran quite smoothly). So, I have no choice than started uninstalling those apps one-by-one until it left with only some essentials apps. But, unfortunately, that memory-hungry OS 6, gradually still "eat" the limited memory and when it gets worse, I have to restart my BlackBerry. Well, seems something beautiful and nice, really came with "cost". No turning back, so I just have to live with it... :(
Finally, my two cents advice, if you have BlackBerry which has memory 256MB and below, DON'T upgrade to OS 6, unless you don't really have/need third party apps at all in your BlackBerry, because it will be painful to have your BlackBerry performance keeps lagging, freezing, and need frequent restarting.
This OS 6 works seamlessly in models with 512MB memory and above.
