The BlackBerry Bold is a mobile phone by wireless communications company Research In Motion Ltd. The BlackBerry Bold is the successor to the BlackBerry Pearl and the BlackBerry 8800, and was originally known as the BlackBerry 9000.
AT&T Wireless at first had exclusive launch rights to the phone in the United States. Verizon Wireless also sells plans for the Blackberry Bold. The BlackBerry Bold was released in America on November 4, 2008. It has been available for sale in the rest of the world since mid-August 2008.http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/10/22/officially-official-blackberry-bold-on-november-4/
A newer version called the Blackberry Bold 9700 3G came out at the end of 2009. It has the basic Blackberry home screen. The blackberry key allows the user to customize which icons are available where. It has a full e-mail client that can operate up to ten e-mail accounts. It supports threaded messaging so that you can refer back to previous messages that inspired the message you are reading. You can talk on the Blackberry Bold while you are reading e-mail at the same time.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10C6QsRKnpk
This cell phone is Wi-Fi enabled and has the Phone Scoop world wide web browser with bookmarking capability so you can quickly get to all your favorite websites and forums to chat or to check your stock portfolio. The Blackberry Bold 9700 3G is also capable of connecting to the Internet with a 3G connection if you have that in your phone plan through Verizon or AT&T.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10C6QsRKnpk
There is a media menu where you can find all the pictures, videos, music and voice recordings that you have taken or stored on your phone. There is a specified and pre-made Applications button that goes to a ready made menu for storing third party applications that you can download from the Internet and use on your Blackberry Bold. Blackberry is compatible with many third party programs.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10C6QsRKnpk
Blackberry Bold 9700 3G
This is a video tour of the new Blackberry Bold 9700 for Verizon. Ergonomically designed, it has frets between the keys to help your thumb know where it is. There is a user definable application key. There is also a key to activate the camera, and a mute button. It has a 3.2 megapixel camera. There is an optical mouse key that works much like the physical mouse that is attached to a desktop computer. This video shows how fast the mouse key works.
