Unlocked BlackBerry Bold 9000 available on Best Buy and CompUSA

Oct 29th, 2008 by Priya Add Comment

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.