Hahaha wow your from Ilford huh??...i live in Ilford myself mate.
Anyways welcome to CB and enjoy your stay..ive had my BB Bold since Dec and im totally addicted to the damn thing lol...so much so that i no longer have a social life haha...but seriously the BB is addictive and this place is just as addictive as the BB.
As for doing the upgrade??..yes it will wipe your device but id make a backup of all your data before you begin, just to be on the safe side. Read and follow the instructions and u will be fine.
ok cool....there is no english version of the upgrade though
English is universal on BlackBerry.
You have probably noticed the several multi-language versions of the OS are distributed. All of them contain English.
The European Multi language package is the most extensive, including all of the commonly used languages of Europe and Central Asia.
The East Asian package include English and the Asian languages.
There is a third language package, CDMA carriers in North America provide multi language packages for the common American languages, English, French, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.