RSSBlackBerry Bold on sale in US today
By Tim Conneally | Published November 4, 2008, 9:53 AM
Finally, after several international false starts and domestic delays, the 3G BlackBerry Bold has premiered at AT&T stores and online in the US, with an offer of free Wi-Fi at some AT&T hotspots.
AT&T has announced that Research In Motion's BlackBerry Bold is now available for purchase, and like other AT&T exclusive smartphones, it receives free Wi-Fi at AT&T hotspots nationwide when accompanied with an unlimited data plan.
Aside from the device's 3G and Wi-Fi capabilities, the BlackBerry Bold has Quad-Band GSM, aGPS, Bluetooth, a 2 Megapixel camera with 3x digital zoom, and media player capabilities with support for XM radio and Napster Mobile. Processing is handled by a Marvell PXA chipset, that is based around an Intel XScale 624 MHz processor, and that provides 1 GB of onboard storage, extensible to 16 GB via MicroSD.
Hopefully, the Bold's launch in the US signifies an end to the still-mysterious troubles that caused it to be pulled from UK shelves, and repeatedly delayed elsewhere.
With a two-year AT&T contract, the BlackBerry Bold costs $299.99.
Finally this could kick-start some sort of competition. We've got the iPhone, the Google phone, and now this. If anything was going to force Apple to get it's ar$e into gear and deliver what people want, it's a bit of competition. And finally Google and RIM have stepped up to drive everything forward. I think in 10 years time Nokia and Motorola will be doing stuff other than making phones. When the Blackberry Storm gets released then that'll really stir things up!
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Except that you are confusing enterprise markets with consumer markets...
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Stop replying to my posts please - I have no interest in your views.
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Really? then why do you read my posts you dimwit?
Besides, you might want to look and see who is actually the primary market/customers of each product. They are not the same.
Although for someone like yourself who looks at these devices and only sees a text capable device (and is still wondering how to do it on the 'limited' iPhone), I guess they all look pretty much the same...
Here's a solution: stop posting your asinine notions and we will neither be tempted to read them for comic relief nor reply to point out their stupidity...
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Stop replying to my posts please - I have no interest in your views.
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Are you talking about an iPhone?
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No genius. With Cingular/AT&T, where you can't make a call from within a home in most metropolitan areas!
I often had to go outside and sit in the car to allow it to act as a sympathetic antenna to make a call. Oh, the convenience of cellular!
Wi-Max offers a greatly increased chance of improved coverage and access with lower infrastructure costs...Let's see how Sprint handles it...
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Sucks to be you. Don't say "in most metropolitan areas" because well, where I live I get signal just fine in my home. And so do my friends on AT&T. And I'm in Los Angeles.
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All these wonderful things and still we can't get a good solid call that doesn't either drop or have bad sound.
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