Blackberry Bold 9000 is a 3.5G enabled smartphone. Blackberry Bold offers great multimedia capability, an assortment of mobile connectivity options, mobile navigation, and so on. RIM has added newer improved models in the Blackberry Bold family, they are the Blackberry Bold 9700, BlackBerry Bold 9780, and the brand new BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 and BlackBerry Bold 9790.
Blackberry Bold 9000 has a 2.44-inch 64k colour TFT display offering a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels. Display includes a light sensor, which helps display automatically adjust illumination to suite any lighting condition, ensuring your pictures and videos come alive no matter the lighting condition. BlackBerry Bold 9000 like Blackberry Curve 8900 comes with a 35 key QWERTY keyboard and a trackball. Newer Blackberry Bold phones features touch-sensitive optical trackpad instead of a track ball.
Blackberry Bold 9000 has an inferior camera compared to Blackberry Curve 8900. While Bold 9000 has a built-in 2.0 megapixels camera, Blackberry Curve 8900 offer a 3.2 megapixels camera. Bold’s camera can handle video recording as well as features like Auto focus, 3X digital zoom, image stabilisation, and LED flashlight. Blackberry Bold 9700 offers a 3.2 megapixels camera as well.
It should be noted that the only major difference between Blackberry Bold 9000 and Curve 8900 aside from the camera is that while Bold 9000 is a 3.5G phone and as a result offer faster and better data capability, Blackberry Curve 8900 is a GSM phone offering GPRS/EDGE data services. Of course, Blackberry Bold 9000 can also support GSM as well as GPRS/EDGE.
Blackberry Bold 9000 supports high-speed data via HSDPA (3.5G). Data and internet services can also be accessed via UMTS and GPRS/EDGE. You can also access Wireless LAN hotspots using built-in Wi-Fi a/b/g support. With Wi-Fi, you can access Blackberry Enterprise and Internet Servers.
Blackberry Bold 9000 offers other business connectivity tools like:
- corporate data access
- SMS/MMS messaging
- Bluetooth 2.0
- wireless email
- extensive email support
- USB
- browser
- organiser
- Social networking
- Instant messaging
Blackberry Bold 9000 is also equipped with external stereo speaker and a built-in media player and video recorder. You can download games, music, videos, and other contents. It comes with a 1GB internal memory, so you may need to buy a MicroSD card for your Blackberry Bold. BlackBerry Bold 9000 supports up to 8GB microSD memory card.
Buy MicroSD memory cards for your Blackberry Bold 9000.
GPS navigation is also supported with A-GPS and Blackberry maps.
Other features of Blackberry Bold 9000:
- Speakerphone
- 3.5mm audio support
- mobile streaming
- Document reader (Word, PowerPoint)
- Games
- 276 hours standby time (3G)
- 4.3 hours talk time
Blackberry Bold 9000 is available in Nigeria. BlackBerry Bold 9000 costs around N40,000 in Nigeria.