It has been well over a year now since the initial announcement from Blackberry RIM that they were to launch a handset by the name of Blackberry 9000 Bold, the forums and blogs of mobile phone enthusiasts lit up at the prospect of a super slim Blackberry device offering the very latest in technology and design.
Well, a year on the handset has finally made it to UK shores and over the past few weeks the forums and blogs have been putting out the rumours of its release date. The Blackberry Bold was finally launched but has been signed off as a network exclusive to the Orange UK network.
Great news that consumers can finally get their hands on this amazing peice of mobile technology, but not so good news about the exclusivity deal. Consumers can only buy the Blackberry Bold if they take out a 12 or 18 month contract agreement with Orange, those who would like the handset on a different UK network will have to wait for this initial exclusive period to end and fro the other networks to pick up the phone.
This means that consumers only have the choice of Orange tariffs which are more commonly known by animal names, ie: Dolphin, Panther and Canary. There is no way of comparing these deals and packages against other network offerings until the limited time launch period has ended.
It will only be at this point that consumers will find out if they have already bought the new Blackberry Bold on Orange whether they did in fact get a competitive deal. Although there is a good range of tariffs on offer from the network some consumers stay clear based on the operators customer service history and another very important fact - Orange lock the handsets to their network.
This means that should a consumer buy a Blackberry Bold on Orange, even when the other networks release this phone theirs will still be locked to Orange, they will only ever be able to use an Orange registered SIM card. There are various companies that will unlock mobile phones from their initial network settings but with more complicated devices such as PDAs, smartphones and Blackberry handsests these are not usually available for some time into the release of the phone.
Blackberry Bold 9000, also referred to as the Blackberry Bold, offers all of the best quality features of a Blackberry Messaging smartphone plus extras. Complete with a large TFT display and handwriting recognition, full Qwerty keyboard and trackball navigation, the Blackberry Bold 9000 is packed with features.
Powered by a 624Mhz processor and running Blackberry's own operating system, the Blackberry Bold offers a 1GB internal memory capacity with the option to expand to as much as 8GB using the memory card slot that will recognise and support both microSD and microSDHC cards.
A quad band GSM device with GPRS and EDGE technology, the Blackberry Bold 9000 includes 3G connectivity and WiFi capabilities.
Bluetooth wireless with A2DP stereo support is also present as is a USB port, handy for straightforward PC to phone synchronization. Offering a complete messaging solution that everything from Email to Instant Messaging, the Blackberry Bold 9000 also has a built-in GPS Receiver with the all important Blackberry Maps preloaded and a whole host of multimedia features that include a 2 mega pixel camera, media player and video player.
Primarily a business device the Blackberry Bold 9000 wouldn't be complete without the traditional PIM functionality, organiser, phonebook, document viewer and editor or voice dial and built-in handsfree.
Although initially exclusively released on Orange in the UK, the new Blackberry Bold will shortly be available on other mobile networks, so if consumers do not want the hassle of owning a network locked mobile phone the advice is to wait for the other networks to get their hands on this new and exciting mobile phone.
The Blackberry Bold is one of many new PDA devices to be released this year, should you require any further information please feel free to browse our mobile phones shop.
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