BlackBerry Bold Smartphone = RIM BlackBerry 9000
The BlackBerry 9000 video tour we saw the other day is now joined by official news from RIM stating that the new Blackberry smartphone will be called the BlackBerry Bold. After seeing how fast the device was running in that video, it's now known that the Blackberry Bold smartphone is equipped with a 624MHz Intel PXA270 processor, and the phone boasts a BOLD HVGA 480 x 320 pixels transmissive TFT LCD with 65,000 colors, and a newly designed full-QWERTY keyboard. Research In Motion's new Bold phone has 1GB of onboard memory, 128MB flash memory and a microSD/SDHC card slot which supports up to 16GB cards. It's expected that AT&T will be first to release the Blackberry Bold smartphone with speedy 3G HSDPA connectivity this summer in the U.S.
Crackberry.com lays out more details:
Black Berry Bold Smartphone Features & Specs
* Size - Length: 144mm, Width: 66mm, Thickness: 14mm
* Weight (with battery) - 133g
* Memory - 1GB on-board (storage) and 128 MB Flash (applications)
* Battery - 1500mAhr lithium cell
* Est. Battery Life - Standby: 13 days, Talk Time: 5 hours
* Network Support - UMTS: 2100 / 1900 / 850MHz, GSM: 1900 / 1800 / 900 / 850 MHz, GPRS, EDGE and HDSPA networks
* Wi-Fi - 803.11a/b/g enabled
* Display - HVGA, 480 x 320 pixels, Transmissive TFT LCD, supports over 65k colors
* Media Player, Video Support - DivX 4, Div X 5 & 6 are partially supported, XviD is partially supported, H.263, H.264 and WMV3
* Media Player, Audio Support - .3gp, MP3, WMA9 (.wma/.asf), WMA9 Pro/WMA 10, MIDI, AMR-NB, Professional AAC/AAC+/eAAC+
* Media Player, Audio - BlackBerry Media Sync allows you to transfer your desktop iTunes music to your BlackBerry!!!
* Camera - 2.0MP, 5 x digital zoom (with flash of course)
* GPS - internal GPS with extended ephemeris, BB Maps is standard
* Bluetooth - Bluetooth v2.0, all the normal stuff and Bluetooth Stereo Audio via A2DP and AVCRP
* USB Port - Enables charging and high-speed data synchronizations
via USB "A" to mini-USB "B" cable
* Browser - HTML browsing, View Movies/Clips from websites built for mobile streaming, RSS feed support.
RIM Blackberry Bold Smartphone press release
More at www.blackberrybold.com
