Blackberry Bold 9000

All About the BlackBerry Bold

The RIM Blackberry Bold 9000 was introduced a some time ago. While it's still a great phone it's descendants are making the news now. The name describes these phones well, with their bright, crisp images grabbing your attention immediately. But the Bold is more than that. It's of course a workhorse like any Blackberry, but this one is faster, more elegant, and even a bit more fun.

Learn more about the Black Berry Bold 9000 and the more recent versions here. You can find out about their calling and messaging functions, multimedia capabilities, camera, connectivity options, and more on this page. You can also find one for sale and shop for the accessories you need.

Blackberry Bold 9000

BlackBerry Bold 9000 Phone, Black (AT&T)

Amazon Price: (as of 05/30/2012)Buy Now

The RIM Blackberry Bold 9000 is a very elegant looking smartphone with it's high quality construction and leatherette back. It's a first class business phone with improved multimedia capabilities, faster performance, and more flexibility. This newest Blackberry is just a bit larger than it's predecessors but it also has a larger screen, roomier keyboard, and handy trackball for easier navigation and messaging.

It offers a crisp and fluid color TFT LCD screen that makes viewing webpages, slideshows, video, and more an unparalleled experience with it's 480x320 resolution.

It's a great workhorse for professionals and provides the messaging capabilities and connectivity you need. However, this phone also provides many of the entertainment functions you want such as a respectable camera/video recorder and multimedia entertainment.

With nearly twice the processing power of other Blackberry smarphones (624 Mhz processor) and 3G networking it offers a much faster experience. It provides 1 GB of onboard memory/128 MB flash memory and a microSD card slot that will support up to another 16GB of memory. With built-in GPS and Blackberry Maps you can also get the turn-by-turn directions you want when in unfamiliar territory.

The Blackberry Bold is also noteable for it's connectivity options:

  • Wi-Fi
  • Bluetooth 2.0 with full A2DP support
  • UMTS 2100/1900/850 MHz
  • GSM 1900/1800/900/850 MHz
  • GPRS, EDGE and HDSPA networking

    Learn more about the bold on this page.
  • BlackBerry Bold 9780

    BlackBerry Bold 9780 Phone (T-Mobile)

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    The BlackBerry Bold 9780 also offers a full QWERTY keyboard as well as a touch sensitive optical trackpad for easy messaging and navigation. It works on T-Mobile's 3G network , offers the 624MHz processor, and uses the BlackBerry 6 OS too. However, it provides an even better browsing experience with faster page loading and tabbed browsing as well as easy access to social sites. Users can access BlackBerry App World, send SMS/MMS, and instant messages, access personal and corporate e-mail, and view attachments (JPEG, Adobe PDFs, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)

    The 9780 offers Bluetooth 2.1 for handsfree calling capabilities, Wi-Fi, and T-Mobile Hot Spot calling capabilities. It comes with more memory than the previous model with 2GB of storage and a microSD slot for adding up to 32GB of storage. It provides 6 hours of talk time per charge and 360 hours of standby.

    It features a 2.44" LCD and a built-in 5 megapixel camera/camcorder with autofocus, image stabilization, and 2x digital zoom. The built in media player is compatible with MP3, WMA, AAC/AAC+/eAAC+ audio files and MPEG4, WMV, H.263 video files. It includes Bluetooth for stereo music streaming and a 3.5mm headphone jack. It also includes built-in assisted GPS which gives users real-time location on maps and turn-by-turn directions. Other features include voice dailing capabilities and a speakerphone.

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    Calling and Messaging

    The Blackberry Bold 9000 makes staying connected by e-mail easy. You can add up to 10 e-mail addresses and you'll know as soon as you receive a message with it's push delivery technology.

    With this smartphone you can view e-mail attachments without any problem; whether it's a Microsoft® Word, Excel, PowerPoint document, Corel, WordPerfect, Adobe PDF, ASCII document, HTML attachment or JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG and TIFF image (even in zip format) this phone can handle it. You don't need to worry about those attachments either as security is high with the Blackberry Enterprise Server allowing encryption. Viewing images is also easier as you're able to zoom, pan, and rotate them easily.

    The Blackberry Bold also features:

  • SMS text messaging

  • Voice Notes which allows you to record voice messages and send as an attachment with e-mail

  • Multimedia messaging

  • A SureType keyboard which combines a traditional phone keypad and QWERTY keyboard for easy calling and texting.

  • Spellcheck

  • Picture and Ringer ID

  • Full QWERTY keyboard

  • Built-in speakerphone

  • Handsfree communication with Bluetooth

  • Conference calling

  • Voice activated dialing

  • Instant Messaging via Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ for Blackberry, or Windows Live Messenger with support for additional business messaging applications via the Blackberry Enterprise Server.


  • Staying connected with the Blackberry Bold is also reliable as it offers 5 hours of talk time (6 hours for the 9780) and 13 days (15 days for the 9780) of standby time per charge. It's integrated Wi-Fi also helps assure that you'll have access to the data services you need even when you're in an area with limited coverage.

    The Fun Stuff

    The Blackberry Bold 9000 offers a 2 megapixel camera with built-in LED flash, 5x digital zoom, and a self-portrait mirror. You even get white balance control to improve those images and geotagging. The 9780 offers a 5 megapixel camera.

    Transferring images to computer can be done by USB 2.0 cable or Bluetooth so that you can not only share your photos by e-mail or online but can manipulate and print them at home.

    The Blackberry Bold will also capture video at 30 fps in full screen mode for a more fluid look.

    The music player supports MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, and, eAAC+ formats. You can also transfer your desktop iTunes music to the Bold, create playlists, shuffle songs, and enjoy them with the stereo speakers or Bluetooth stereo headphones. You won't be cramped either, with memory expandable up to an additional 16GB (32GB on the Bold 9780) there's plenty of room for all of your favorite tunes. Of course, you can also stream video, play games, and customize your graphics and ringtones. The Bold let's you enjoy content from MobiTV, YouTube, XM Radio and others.

    The Web Experience

    The Blackberry Bold 9000 lets you access internet content on the go. The Bold 9780 gives users tabbed browsing and universal search. Aside from viewing and editing documents as indicated above, users can browse the full web, set bookmarks, view history, set up RSS feeds, and more. With the built-in GPS and Blackberry Maps it's easy to plan routes, view maps, and even get turn-by-turn directions when you need them.

    Search the web, interact with friends on Facebook, Flickr, and MySpace. The Blackberry Bold is built for this.

    The Blackberry Bold also inlcludes the following functions:

  • The ability to act as a wireless modem for your laptop.

  • synchronization with many desktop organizer programs

  • calendar

  • address book

  • memo pad

  • calculator

  • task list

  • Blackberry Wallet for easily making purchases online

  • Blackberry Bold 9000 and 9780 Reviews

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    iPhone forever!

    Bold is the iPhone Killer!

    Zunda says:

    The same about Blackberry Free http://quizilla.teennick.com/stories/18063955/how-to-get-a-free-blackberry-torch-and-free-gift-cards

    logan says:

    i think the bold is better. iphone too much hype, business is terrible on the iphone. too big, feels like a brick. i love the app but the unlocked blackberry bold2 is great too and really fun. i vote bold! I got my last 2 at gsmallover.com and couldn't be happier. 2 thumbs way up

    KristyRMT says:

    Just got my Bold and I absolutely love it. I tried to buy an iPhone, but the Bold definitely won out in the end.

     

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