BlackBerry goes HSDPA
Research In Motion (RIM) today released the BlackBerry Bold smartphone, the first BlackBerry with high-speed HSDPA support as well as being tri-band capable.
The BlackBerry Bold is aimed at RIM's core business market with its up-market looks, but the company is also hoping it will also find its place in the broader market.
The BlackBerry Bold supports enterprise-grade Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g) networks and runs on a 624MHz mobile processor. The Bold ships with 128 MB Flash memory plus 1 GB on-board storage memory, as well having a microSD/SDHC memory card slot supporting up to 8MB of storage.
"The new BlackBerry Bold represents a step forward in business-grade smartphones and lives up to its name with incredible speed, power and functionality, all wrapped in a beautiful and confident design," said Mike Lazaridis, president and co-CEO of RIM.
The BlackBerry Bold ships with the usual producitivy applications including phone, email, messaging, organiser and browser. The smartphone also has an integrated GPS.
The half-VGA (480×320 resolution) colour LCD is the most impressive screen on a Blackberry to date.
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