What makes BlackBerry Bold the most popular device in BlackBerry’s current line up is its display. BlackBerry bold has bright 2.65 inches diagonal TFT-LCD screen with 65,000 colors and a resolution of 320 by 480 pixels. That is why it is being demanded more and more by customers. Keeping this in mind online merchants Best Buy and CompUSA are selling it directly to consumers with their unlocked BlackBerry Bold 9000. The price they are asking is $660 and $799.99 respectively.
Best Buy has put up BlackBerry Bold on their website for pre-ordering where as CompUSA is selling it right away. The prices set by CompUSA are enormously high if we look at iSuppli’s cost break down. According to iSuppli BlackBerry Bold’s direct Bill of Materials (BOM) cost of $158.16 and a manufacturing cost of $11.25 which makes it a total of 169.41 USD and if you look at a tag price of $799.99 set by CompUSA, you can feel the waves BlackBerry Bold is making for its lovers.
BlackBerry Bold was completely redesigned and it does not include a touch-screen display but still it contains few similarities to Apple’s iPhone 3G. BlackBerry Bold features a GPS, and Wi-Fi which it’s a big hit. BlackBerry Bold has 1GB of internal memory, a microSD card slot for which a 1GB card is included in the sales package. BlackBerry Bold smartphone comes equipped with a 2 megapixel camera with video-recording capabilities and 5x zoom.
BlackBerry Bold 9000
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AT&T customers now may enjoy availability of RIM’s BlackBerry Bold, a 3G smartphone with HSDPA network support. The Bold will be exclusively available through AT&T carrier in the US but can be used in more than 60 other countries. The device has full QWERTY keyboard, built-in GPS and Wi-Fi capabilities.
It also carries a 2 megapixel camera, 624 MHz mobile CPU, and 1 GB of user memory + up to 16 GB microSD/SDHC expand support. The BlackBerry Bold will be launched on November 4th with AT&T services like: Simultaneous Voice and Data Capabilities, AT&T Navigator Global Edition, Seamless Wi-Fi, Cellular Video and AT&T Mobile Music Services.
AT&T is going to sell it through its retail stores nationwide and select national retailers for around 300 USD.
BlackBerry 9000 Bold
We normally don’t go for rumoured phone launched reports but this one is really some thing that has kept us to keep our fingers crossed for quite some time but now there are quite a many statement regarding launch of BlackBerry in US. This time it’s more pleasure to see AT&T launch date documents which say that it’s ready to be launched on 27th October, so just a week of pressing your gears to get this highly anticipated phone. We will be watching it closely for next week launch if it’s true and will get back to you with prices soon.
BlackBerry Bold features a high-resolution display, 3G data connectivity, GPS and WiFi. BlackBerry 9000 has 1GB of on-board storage memory, high-speed data capabilities which actually drain the battery quicker. Analysts and industry insiders have said so much information on RIM’s 9000 Series which makes it a highly anticipated phone which is compared more with iPhone than any other handset. This is because of a feature that have confused industry insiders is the BlackBerry Bold’s 480 by 320 half VGA resolution which is the same in Apple’s iPhone.
BlackBerry Bold 9000
It’s now almost dozen carriers that have BlackBerry Bold to offer their business professionals. The new is in the list is Taiwan Mobile that has introduced the BlackBerry Bold smartphone which comes with a hybrid QWERTY-BoPoMoFo keyboard for Chinese input. BlackBerry Bold is the first BlackBerry smartphone to support tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks around the world.
The Bold is equipped with a 2-megapixel with video-recording capabilities and 5x zoom at most. The media player supports numerous audio and video formats like MP3, WMA, AAC, DivX4 and WMV3 files. With integrated GPS, which can pinpoint the user’s location, the Bold’s screen is one of the best we’ve ever seen.
The BlackBerry Bold features a half-VGA (480×320 pixel resolution) and a 65,000-color display. Memory wise Bold has it all with 128 MB Flash memory plus 1GB on-board storage memory. Priced at NTD$ 21,500 the BlackBerry Bold smart phone will be available in TWM myfone stores for corporate and individual users from early November 2008.
BlackBerry Bold 9000
