RIM announced today its latest BlackBerry 9000, also known as the BlackBerry Bold. Due to its black color enclosed in a chrome border, it’s hard not to notice the similarity between it and the iPhone.
The BlackBerry Bold is not putting up a fight without being well-prepared. It has 3.5G HSDPA support, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, 480×320 resolution screen (twice the resolution of the most recent BlackBerry Curve), physical QWERTY keyboard, trackball located under the screen, full-featured desktop-style web browser, 2MP camera with video recording capabilities, built-in camera flash, and 5x digital zoom. Definitely a worthy competitor to the iphone.
Unfortunately for RIM, the BlackBerry Bold has yet to have an official launch date. The iPhone will be upgraded with new features very soon, and we don’t know how shiny the Bold would look by then.
May 14th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I hardly think that iPhone has anything on Blackberry in the first place. Last time I checked the iPhone had completely flopped?
May 16th, 2008 at 12:03 am
How could you say the iPhone flopped??? WHOA!!! iPhone sold more than any cell phone on the market in the amount of time. It is plain revolutionary. This new blackberry is awesome but the iPhone is completley different. iPhone WILL be moving into the corporate world soon with the release of the apps next month and the new 3G iPhone.. trust me! Niclas… the iPhone has not flopped and that is a FACT!