I dont agree with this chap BlackBerrySites Official BlackBerry 5.0 OS Walkthrough Video! - http://tinyurl.com/ybgub6r at all, I think its way and above how he describes it.

On Bootup, you get a progress bar.
And is usable within seconds.

Bootup now (For Me) takes 8 mins, my last version .303 took 45mins, it had a lot of trouble reading the memory card.


Search results in Messages can be Filtered by Sender




We now have a Media Folder



New UI with scrolling figures & dates


All Music is numbered



Threaded SMS & you can view your SMS in BBM, cool as!



Threaded SMS



You can view Your Memory Usage, how much space pics, music, documents are all taking up.






Can view full screen pics
Zooming in on Pics is a lot smoother

Media, Usable Icons, Can Loop/repeat/shuffle your music without BB Key



Do more with your profiles Being able to see what is configured with BerryBuzz







Options in BB key, takes you too Themes and do more modifications to themes, save themes & Icon placement

Do More with Playlists (Not Figured this out yet, does not make any sense to me)

Not figured this out yet either, but its supposed to put the Media Buttons on Homescreen



Search option, more options to search

More Options in QuickLaunch to add to QuickLaunch

More options in Messages, i.e. Flag and File



Properties For Flaging



Messages Options In Messages takes you to Profiles, thus giving you more flexability to alter your Profiles.

Messages Search Sender and Message

Viewing Your Apps in Applications is more intuitive.