The upgrade comes amidst a storm of emotion as BlackBerry fans clash with the numerous reviewers delivering overwhelmingly negative impressions of the device. Perhaps the most attention-grabbing report has been writer David Pogue’s piece in The New York Times , in which Pogue stated he hadn’t “found a soul who tried this machine who wasn’t appalled, baffled or both.”
The firmware update is supposed to correct some of those, including issues in switching between landscape and portrait modes as well as subpar multimedia application performance.
Some blog reports indicate Bell Canada is already one step ahead, distributing version 4.7.0.76 of the operating system.