There have been announcements from RIM unveiling the details of the new
BlackBerry Bold for
and
Although there's official announcement yet about the
States
BlackBerry Bold in
T-Mobile Germany and Research In Motion unveiled the BlackBerry Bold
smartphone, a top of the line BlackBerry smartphone that features premium
design and unprecedented performance for an optimized 3G experience. The
BlackBerry Bold smartphone comes with integrated
and Wi-Fi and is the first BlackBerry smartphone to support tri-band HSDPA
high-speed networks around the world. Users can surf the Internet and download
large e-mail attachments over the T-Mobile UMTS web'n'walk network.
The BlackBerry Bold smartphone has a rich set of multimedia capabilities and
displays content beautifully on its half-VGA (480x320 resolution at 217 ppi)
color LCD display, which offers stunning definition and clarity. The BlackBerry
Bold is also crafted from premium materials, including a luxurious black
exterior, satin chrome finished trim and leatherette backplate.
The new BlackBerry Bold smartphone is designed to give business
professionals and power users unprecedented functionality and performance and
is now available from T-Mobile in
Superior Performance
The BlackBerry Bold smartphone's support for tri-band HSDPA and
enterprise-grade Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g) networks and its next-generation 624 MHz
mobile processor make short work of downloading email attachments, streaming
video or rendering web pages over the T-Mobile network. With this
powerful new smartphone, users can even talk on the phone while sending and
receiving email or accessing the Internet.
Web browsing is also very easy as the smartphone's powerful browser and
trackball enable users to quickly navigate sites in a desktop-style "Page
View" that allows users to point-and-click to zoom in on specific parts of
a web page, or users can switch as desired to a "Column View" which
presents the web page in a continuous column for easy reading and scrolling on
the go. Users can also download MicrosoftWord, Excel and PowerPoint files and
edit them directly on the handset using the preloaded DataVizDocuments to Gosuite.
Multimedia capabilities and more
The BlackBerry Bold smartphone features a 2 megapixel camera with video
recording capability*, built-in flash and digital zoom.
The advanced media player can display pictures and slideshows quickly, play
movies smoothly in full screen mode, and manage an entire music collection.
Audio can be played over the handset's dual speakers in rich, stereo sound, and
when using wired headphones or external speakers, the media player gives the user
an equalizer with 11 preset filters - like "Lounge", "Jazz"
and "Hip Hop" - that boost or soften audio ranges to create the
perfect ambiance.
For managing music and video, the BlackBerryDesktop Manager software
includes RoxioMedia Manager for BlackBerryas well as Roxio Photosuite9 LE,
which makes it easy to enhance pictures and create
albums on a computer. For users that manage their collection with iTunes, the
new BlackBerryMedia Sync application provides a simple way to sync iTunes digital
music collections with the smartphone**. Support for High Speed
2.0 allows files to be transferred quickly from a computer to the BlackBerry
Bold smartphone.
In addition, the BlackBerry Bold features integrated
for location based services and satellite navigation, including the T-Mobile
NaviGate service. The software for T-Mobile NaviGate will be available in
August and can be downloaded for free.
Added features and voice quality for making calls
The BlackBerry Bold comes with numerous premium phone features including
Speaker Independent Voice Recognition (SIVR) for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD),
Bluetooth2.0, with support for hands-free headsets, stereo headsets, car kits
(including car kits that adhere to the Bluetooth Remote
Access Profile) and other Bluetooth peripherals. It is a quad-band
and tri-band HSDPA handset that supports global roaming*** and features
dedicated 'send', 'end', and 'mute' keys, smart dialing, speed dialing,
conference calling and call forwarding. It also features noise cancellation
technology that offsets background noise, a powerful speaker phone and support
for polyphonic, mp3 and
The BlackBerry Bold smartphone is now available from T-Mobile Deutschland
for EUR 39,95 in conjunction with a 24-month contract on the Relax 200 plan.
The smartphone costs EUR 459,95 without a contract.
* Video recording requires a memory card, sold separately.
** Certain music files may not be supported, including files that contain
digital rights management technologies.
*** Check with service provider for roaming services.