Waterloo (ON) - Research in Motion has officially unveiled its newest Blackberry phone.  Previously known only by its model number, 9000, RIM took the wraps off its name over the weekend, giving the world a view of its "Bold" mobile.

The Blackberry Bold sports a sleek 480x320 pixel screen able to display 65,000 colors, and integrated GPS with geo-tagging capabilities.  What really sets it apart, though, is that it supports tri-band HSDPA and 802.11 Wi-Fi.

Clocking in with a 624 MHz mobile processor and 128 MB of Flash memory, it is one of the most packed Blackberry phones to date.  Additionally, it includes a gigabyte of internal memory and a microSD(HC) card slot.



According to RIM, the name was derived from initial focus group testing, when people consistently referred to the device as "bold."

"The new BlackBerry Bold represents a tremendous step forward in business-grade smartphones and lives up to its name with incredible speed, power and functionality, all wrapped in a beautiful and confident design," said RIM president Mike Lazaridis.

In addition to the impressive technical specs, the Bold also features a full Qwerty keyboard, a 2 MP digital camera with camcorder functionality, and all of the Blackberry's typical messaging and communication applications.  A full HTML Web browser is also built right in.

With all that hardware, RIM says the battery life is still five hours of talking and 13 days in standby mode.  Official release date and pricing is yet to be disclosed.

But, still no 3G

May 12, 2008 11:54     

My current curve, while an indeed great phone, is slow as hell when you need some internet. Looks like the story does not change much here.
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Yeah, real bold...

May 12, 2008 12:23     

Hmmm........sure looks very similar to an iPhone....
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@lithdoc

May 12, 2008 12:59     

I googled the phone and it seems it will support 3G.
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@ lithdoc

May 12, 2008 16:18     

HSDPA is considered 3.5G so it's faster than regular 3G. HSDPA stands for "High-Speed Downlink Packet Access"
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RE: Yeah, real bold...

May 12, 2008 17:16     

"Hmmm........sure looks very similar to an iPhone...." What the fuck have you been smoking? That looks NOTHING like the iphone
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Blackberry still requires middleware to be good...

May 12, 2008 21:17     

As long as the Blackberry needs the middleware software to be able to collaborate properly through Exchange, then it will always be a bad choice for business.
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No 3G?

May 12, 2008 21:54     

Hspda = 3.5G
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HSDPA = 3G....

May 14, 2008 15:40     

Actually tri-band HSDPA = 3G....
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FOR SELL BlackBerry Bold 9000...$300usd

May 20, 2008 21:01     

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