If you are one of the unfortunate souls who has been waiting forever for the new Blackberry Bold to show up in your local T-Mobile store or mall kiosk, you are in luck! RIM’s newest and greatest entry into the cr4owded super smart phone market is hitting store shelves in November. The 17th to be exact.
It will be running on the Blackberry 6 OS by the time it gets to you and sports a flashy and functional full QWERTY keyboard and a slick new trackpad. You’ll also be able to snap fairly decent quality shots with the built-in 5 Megapixel camera and geo tag those bad boys with the built in GPS functionality. And a camera with resolution that big is going to eat up some memory. That’s why T-Mobile is throwing you a bone: 512 MB of Flash storage! You can even expand with a microSd card if you find you still need more.
The package contains:
- BlackBerry Bold 9780
- 2GB microSD card
- Stereo Headset
- microUSB Cable
- Wall Charger
- Start Guide
- BlackBerry User Tools CD
- Holster
Design:
If you’re expecting something drastically different from last year’s iteration, you’ll be sorely disappointed to see the Bold 9780′s design to be an exact replica. It’s not to say that it’s a bad thing, depending on how you look at it, but the Bold 9780 exudes all of the classic qualities we’d expect from RIM’s Bold line of handsets like its catching industrial design and solid construction. Fairly compact, its choice of materials also remains the same as it utilizes some tough feeling plastic, a metallic bezel, and that faux-pas leather back cover. In any event, we’re still pleased with this design as it truly epitomizes what a tried and true BlackBerry should look like.
When we think about portrait style keyboards, the first thing that instantly pops up in our minds are the ones offered by RIM. Again, the Bold 9780 employs the same identical keyboard from its predecessor and functions almost flawlessly with its distinguishable buttons and tactile responsiveness. Even though people with larger fingers will have to deal with the tiny sized buttons, it’s still undeniably useable after an adjustment period.
Continuing the trend, the optical track-pad is placed squarely in the middle of the device as it feels slick and highlighted with a chrome outline. Surrounding it are the usual set of other physical buttons which are flush, but separated – these include the send, end, BlackBerry Menu, and back keys.
