IM very quietly just showed off the new BlackBerry Bold in white, with a white leather back that somehow manages to outdo the previous version in tackiness. It’s due out on AT&T for $US200, as usual, on October 18th.
We knew it was coming, so this is just some concrete confirmation. The RIM rep told me it’ll be out on the 18th only online and in “select stores”, which look restricted to LA and Phoenix, for some reason. One more shot of that snow white leather back:
This just in, you are now looking at the first live images of the BlackBerry Thunder and its touchscreen keyboard!!
BlackBerry Thunder - QWERTY Keyboard
The first pics and screenshots we have seen of the BlackBerry Thunder have been awesome, but it's nice to finally have live hands-on photo evidence that the BlackBerry Thunder is REAL and it's working (of course, only time will tell for sure just how well!). More details and another photo of the BlackBerry Thunder's touchscreen after the jump!
BlackBerry Thunder - SureType
Here's a quick recap of the details we brought you last week on the Thunder's touchscreen display:
The BlackBerry Bold is Research In Motion's latest full QWERTY device. That is to say, underneath the screen there is a little QWERTY keyboard that the emailaholics among us can use to tap out messages while on the move.
But the BlackBerry has come a long way from the days when it was purely designed as a mobile email machine. Research In Motion has upped the ante and is targeting consumers as much as those professionals who like to do a bit more than tapping out messages to each other, and the Bold shows this off.
Of course email remains a central feature of the Bold and, as befits a consumer focused device, setting up personal email accounts is straightforward. Multiple accounts are catered for and they all show up individually so you can manage different ‘personas' with ease. The BlackBerry Bold will also work on corporate networks, of course.
The screen isn't all that vast at just 2.5 inches across diagonal corners, but it crams 320 x 480 pixels into that space making it very sharp indeed. And the Bold sports a redesigned user interface that makes it look rather more consumer friendly than in the past.
Last fall, Hewlett Packard announced that they were going to take the handheld business serious again and introduced several new smartphones, or did they? Despite the delay, HP said their new iPAQ 910 will be available on June 30th…finally. With its Blackberry look with clean lines and smooth black shell, the iPAQ is powered by Windows 6.1 mobile operating system, perfect for people who mean serious business. Full QWERTY keypad and instant messaging included. In addition, the iPAQ has a 520MHz Marvell PXA270 processor, 128MB of RAM, 256MB of ROM, built-in 3 megapixel camera with auto focus and 4x zoom with microSD slot, is a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE with support for tr-bind UMTS/HSDPA 3G, has bluetooth, Wi-Fi with support for VoIP, and GPS. Hewlette Packard is pricing the iPAQ 910 as $500.
ke the guys over at BGR have yet again unveiled a BlackBerry handset before RIM. With claims that “this isn’t fake, this isn’t a hoax,” they are showing off the latest BlackBerry handset, its a clamshell style that at least based on the available images has a nice large internal display, an external display, a SureType keypad and a trackball similar to that found on the Pearl. It also does not feature a camera. A rumored release date has the Kickstart hitting the market sometime before the end of the year. Overall not a bad looking phone, time will tell just how accurate these reports are
