The BlackBerry Bold is finally here. It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve played with the Bold, it’s never the same until your very own review unit lands on your front door. It’s still a little too early for me to say too much right now, but I plan on spending the next few days getting to know the Bold.
AT&T have released full details about their free WiFi scheme, which as we already knew offers Apple iPhone and iPhone 3G users access to in excess of 17,000 hotspots. The carrier hasn't just limited their promotion to one type of fruit, however; select BlackBerry owners will also get free access too.
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Okay, so we just reported this morning that the BlackBerry Bold was available for pre-order from Best Buy for a whopping $660. And you might have found that to be outrageous. But CompUSA has them beat with a significantly higher price tag.
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Hot on the heels of Best Buy's BlackBerry Bold pricing comes word that the handset costs just $169 to manufacture. Analysts iSuppli have calculated that RIM pay a combination of $158.16 for materials and $11.25 in build costs to create the smartphone that, unsubsidized, retails at $659.99.
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It's not often we get to call a $660 cellphone a bargain, but if you'd been saving up for an unsubsidized AT&T BlackBerry Bold thinking that Best Buy's price would be $679.99, you'll be pleased by the news that it's actually come in at "just" $659.99. The smartphone is currently listed as 'backordered', with delivery expected in 1-2 weeks.
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AT&T have finally announced availability of the BlackBerry Bold smartphone, RIM's latest QWERTY-equipped 3G smartphone. The handset will launch on Tuesday, November 4th, priced from $299.99 with a new two-year agreement. That not-inconsiderable figure gets you a 480 x 320 display, WiFi, 3G, 1GB of onboard storage and a 2-megapixel camera.
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Remember those BlackBerry rumors that almost threatened to overshadow the Storm's launch? The Boy Genius has some more fuel for the fire with word that RIM are currently cooking up two hot devices; the first, and perhaps least surprising, would be a new US-spec HSDPA Storm to be announced at the WES2009 show in May next year. As for the second, it's something that could certainly cause Palm to, well, thrown up their palms in horror: a QWERTY phone with touchscreen.
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Courtesy of a little judicious searching from Berry Reporter, we now know the price Best Buy have set for the upcoming BlackBerry Bold smartphone. The QWERTY-bearing smartphone is priced at $679.99 unsubsidized; there's no telling what that will translate to once they've stuck you for a two year AT&T contract, but figure a significant discount.
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ASUS continued their assault on the budget computing market this week, with the Eee PC 900 finally launching in the US while its Intel Atom powered sibling the PC 901 broke cover. We also saw a live photo of the Eee Box B202, a desktop version. It looks as though the rumors of a separate Eee brand could be true; the ASUS logo is notable for its absence on the new products. Meanwhile, OLPC and Microsoft finally shook hands on a Windows XP deal for the XO education notebook, and Fujitsu showed off their own Atom-based ultraportable, the U2010 UMPC complete with 3.5G WWAN and GPS.
RIM finally took the covers off of the highly anticipated and much-rumored BlackBerry Bold smartphone. RIM wants you to think of the phone’s beautiful display when you think of the “Bold.” The BlackBerry Bold is no doubt beautiful, at least for a BlackBerry anyways. So everyone, please say and give a warm welcome to the all-new BlackBerry Bold.
The BlackBerry Bold features a 480×320 pixel resolution, 65,000-color display, a new design that looks much more elegant than previous BlackBerry models. The Bold sports curvier edges and a silver trim complementing the black casing. Flip it over, and you’ll find that RIM has added a leatherette texture to the back. The days of cheap and slippery plastic are gone. RIM intends to sell replaceable backplates in different colors, including blue, gray and red. The Bold weighs 4.7 ounces and measures 4.5-inches tall by 2.6-inches wide and only 0.5 inches deep. The blackberry Bold also has a new QWERTY keyboard that’s a more modernized version of the Curve. People who have used the new layout have commented that it’s pretty easy to use thanks to its “large-ish” buttons with some spacing between the keys.
