Incredible speed, power and functionality, all wrapped in a beautiful and confident design.

RIM finally fill their promise to launch one of the most anticipated gadget this month, Blackberry 9000 in WES event at Orlando, Florida, USA. Or in other name, you can call it, “Bold, Blackberry Bold.” Just like when Pierce Brosnan said, “Bond, James Bond”. Yesterday, I mentioned in 3GWeek carnaval that I dislike this RIM new baby design, but now I think I’m going to change my mind. This one is definitely cool. Try and take a look here.

Here comes the full specifications:

Hardware & Technology

1. Tri-band HSDPA
2. integrated GPS
3. Wi-Fi® (802.11 a/b/g)
4. satin chrome finished frame
5. stylish leather-like back plate (back-cover are available)
6. full-QWERTY(i) keyboard
7. 624-MHz Marvell Tavor PXA930 processor
8. 1 GB on-board storage memory with encryption
9. microSD/SDHC memory card slot
10. half-VGA (480×320 resolution) color LCD
11. browser with trackball
12. support for watching streaming videos (RTSP - real-time streaming protocol)
13. 2 megapixel camera with built-in flash and 5x digital zoom
14. video recording
15. USB 2.0 with cable
16. Bluetooth® 2.0,
17. support hands-free headsets
18. stereo headsets
19. car kits (including car kits that adhere to the Bluetooth Remote SIM Access Profile) and other Bluetooth peripherals
20. support for polyphonic, mp3 and MIDI ring tones
21. travel charger
22. carrying case or sleeve
23. 1500 mAhr battery
24. talk time of approximately 5 hours
25. 13 days standby time.

Software

1. email
2. messaging
3. organizer
4. equalizer with 11 preset (Jazz, lounge, hip hop, etc)
5. Roxio® Media Manager
6. Roxio Photosuite® 9 LE
7. DataViz® Documents
8. Go® suite
9. BlackBerry® Media Sync support syncing iTunes digital music
10. BlackBerry® Maps
11. Speaker Independent Voice Recognition (SIVR) for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD)
12. support BlackBerry® Enterprise Server which enables advanced security and IT administration within IBM® Lotus® Domino®, Microsoft® Exchange and Novell® GroupWise® environments, as well as BlackBerry® Professional Software for small businesses
13. support BlackBerry® Internet Service, which gives users access to up to 10 work or personal email accounts (including most popular ISP email accounts), and the BlackBerry® Unite! software for SOHO and home users.

Wow, hold it guys! Is there something left up there? Yes, it doesn’t support touch screen. So, in case you want some soft touch gadget then this one is not for you.

Price and Availability

BGR said that this device will be about $300 - $500 with carriers. AT&T and T-Mobile will grab this device for their customers first. It means that Asian possibly will not become the first one to give it a try. At least not before June this year. However, based on their press release, this Bold series will hit wireless carrier around the world beginning this summer.

Source: BGR, Engadget, and PC Mag

Image courtesy of Blackberry Bold | BGR

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 Print Posted by Wim Permana on May 12th, 2008