Overview Of The Blackberry Bold

Blackberry Bold

On May the 12th RIM announced the latest Blackberry smart phone, the Blackberry 9000 or Blackberry Bold. Here is a summary of the phone's features.

Design

The Bold is created out of premium materials. The phone is taller and wider than traditional BlackBerries with a black exterior, satin chrome-finished frame and interchangeable colour back plates. The removable back plate come in a variety of colours letting users customise their phones. The latest BlackBerry comes with a newly designed QWERTY keyboard.

Display

The Bold comes equipped with a half VGA colour LCD (480x320), making its display the most vivid ever seen on a BlackBerry. The high resolution, ultra bright display gives the BlackBerry Bold an unparalleled web browsing experience.

Improved Performance

The Bold is the first Blackberry smart phone to support tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks around the world. The HSDPA combined with a next generation 624MHz mobile processor, the phone effortlessly downloads email attachments, streams video and renders web pages

Wi-Fi

The Bold comes enterprise-grade Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g) perfect for many Wi-Fi environments. A new 'Push Button Setup' speeds up accessing protected networks that require a sign-in process.

GPS

The phone comes with integrated GPS allowing the Bold to pinpoint its exact location and gives access to applications like BlackBerry Maps and other location based software.

Multimedia

The Bold includes a rich set of multi-media tools never before seen on a Blackberry. The Bold comes with a 2 megapixel camera with a built-in flash and a 5x digital zoom and video recording capabilities.

The Bold has an enhanced media player which can display pictures, slideshows and films in full screen mode. To manage music on the phone, the Bold comes with the BlackBerry desktop manager. For iTunes users, the new BlackBerry Media sync application allows the phone to sync the Bold with iTunes music collections. Download music onto the Bold from a computer, with High Speed USB 2.0 which allows files to be transferred quickly. For listening to music, the Bold includes two built-in speakers with rich stereo sound. The phone supports polyphonic, mp3 and MIDI ring tones

Other features

The Bold comes with a range of accessories including a stereo head set, travel charger, carry case and USB cable. Other novel features include a 1GB on-board memory, voice recognition software, voice activated dialing, speaker phone and Bluetooth that supports hands free sets and car kits.

The Bold lets gives users a variety of call features such as smart dialing, speed dialing, conference calling and call forwarding. To improve the calling experience, the Bold features noise cancellation technology which offsets background noise.

For more information about other blackberry phones, check out our comprehensive guide to mobile phones

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Pete is a regular contributor to the Omio.com blog. Pete's favourite phones include the iPhone, the HTC Diamond and the Blackberry Bold.

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