New BlackBerry Bold Smartphone Presented by RIM

Research In Motion (RIM) has introduced a BlackBerry Bold smartphone, designed to give business professionals and power users’ functionality and performance. It is the first BlackBerry smartphone to support tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks around the world and comes with integrated GPS and Wi-Fi, as well as a rich set of multimedia capabilities.

 

"The new BlackBerry Bold represents a tremendous 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, Research In Motion, in a statement.

 

Coming with a host of features, the BlackBerry Bold also includes 128 MB Flash memory plus 1 GB on-board storage memory, as well as a micro SD/SDHC memory card slot that is conveniently accessible from a side door.

 
The BlackBerry productivity applications - phone, email, messaging, organizer and browser - are also included and work with thousands of mobile business and lifestyle applications, making it easier to stay connected, productive and entertained.

 

In addition, with this new smartphone, users can talk on the phone while sending and receiving email or accessing the Web, and download Word, Excel or PowerPoint files and edit them directly on the handset using the preloaded DataViz Documents to Go suite.

 

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone gives users an on-the-go web browsing experience with desktop-style depiction. The trackball mimics a mouse, making it easy to navigate sites in "Page View" or "Column View" or to zoom in on specific parts of a Web page, while various emulation settings allow users to choose between the full desktop-style HTML content and layout or the mobile version.

 

Attachments can also be downloaded from within the browser, and there is support for watching streaming videos.

 

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone also caters to the business person's consumer side during evenings and weekends by featuring a two megapixel camera with video recording capability, built-in flash and 5x digital zoom.

 

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone also supports the 802.11 a/b/g Wi-Fi standards, ideal for use in enterprise or campus wireless LAN deployments, over Wi-Fi hotspots and on wireless home networks. A new "Push Button Setup" is included, making it faster for users to connect to protected wireless networks that require a sign on process. 

Through its integrated GPS, the BlackBerry Bold smartphone can pinpoint its exact location, supporting applications like BlackBerry Maps and other location-based applications or services.