Be BlackBerry, Be Bold

Posted by YILKA in Hardware, TechMay 14th, 2008 | 2 Comments

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If you want to be cool, be Apple. But to be bold, BlackBerry must be the choice I’ve been enjoying every moment with my AT&T BlackBerry 8820 for months. Powerful, Versatile, Stylish, Smart, that’s BlackBerry; and the feeling is just so amazing

Yesterday, Research In Motion (RIM) dropped their new bombshell: BlackBerry 9000, codename ‘Bold‘, that to better the best Smartphone on Earth.

BlackBerry Bold features:

Memory: 1GB on-board (storage) and 128 MB Flash (applications)
Battery: 1500mAhr lithium cell; that allows to Standby: 13 days, Talk Time: 5 hours
Network Support: UMTS: 2100/1900/850MHz, GSM: 1900/1800/900/850 MHz, GPRS, EDGE and HDSPA networks
Wi-Fi: 803.11a/b/g enabled
Gorgeous display: HVGA, 480 x 320 pixels, Transmissive TFT LCD, supports over 65k colors
Media support: DivX 4, Div X 5 & 6, XviD, H.263, H.264, WMV3, 3gp, MP3, WMA9 (.wma/.asf), WMA9 Pro/WMA 10, MIDI, AMR-NB, Professional AAC/AAC+/eAAC+, iTunes Sync
Camera: 2.0MP, 5x digital zoom with flash
GPS
Bluetooth 2.0, USB Port
Last but not least, new RIM OS 4.6

RIM has Bold on the website, but no launch date specified yet. It seems like AT&T will be first to carry this Bold

So BlackBerry full QWERTY keyboard family now has one more lovely sibling: from left to right – Curve 8320, Bold 9000, and 8820 (photo courtesy of CrackBerry)

Nothing much to say since Bold is not officially sold yet. From the look, all I can say is the display is much bright and crisp, the keyboard looks cooler with little space between keys (neither ’0′ space like 8820 nor generous-redundant space like 8320) – one slight change that surely make a huge impact! More reviews can be found here.

P.S: almost at the same time, Apple shows that they are having no interest to continue selling iPhone 2.5G. All 8Gb and 16Gb models are showing ‘Unavailable’ status under Apple US & UK Online Store WWDC is coming next month, and rumors says (confirms) that iPhone 3G is around the corner, iPhone Black edition as well (^o^)