He notes that there are scattered stock-outs on the BlackBerry Bold 9900 in Europe and Asia.
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At just 10.5mm thick, the BlackBerry Bold 9930 smartphone is the thinnest BlackBerry smartphone ever.
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Its release made me think about the little BlackBerry Bold unit that I own.
Meanwhile, to defend its home turf, RIM recently announced an iPhone killer called BlackBerry Bold.
I'm currently using a BlackBerry Bold 9700 and I handle a lot of e-mails on any given day.
What, are you going to replace it with a BlackBerry Bold or something?
BlackBerry Bold 9930 and BlackBerry Torch 9850 also offer World Phone capability for international travel to nearly anywhere in the world.
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It provides more vertical space between the keys, imitating the steel bands that separated the hardware keys on the BlackBerry Bold.
This fits with the theory that RIM may be continuing to bleed enterprise customers in droves, even with the brand new Blackberry Bold.
The Q10's touch screen is significantly smaller, to give space for the physical keyboard, and looks similar to the recent BlackBerry Bold models.
The phone, as you'd expect, is essentially a BlackBerry Bold 9900 in a body crafted with forged stainless steel and a leather-wrapped back.
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BlackBerry Bold 9930 also offers Near Field Communications (NFC) support for a secure exchange of information between NFC-enabled devices over a very short distance.
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However, device revenues staged a mini-comeback with sales mix improving due to an increased adoption of the higher-end BlackBerry Bold handsets in developed markets.
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Clearly, the BlackBerry Bold raises the game for corporate users everywhere.
However, device revenues staged a mini-comeback this quarter with sales mix improving due to an increased adoption of the higher-end BlackBerry Bold handsets in developed markets.
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Inadvertently, we sent in our four-year-old BlackBerry Bold instead.
They are huge compared to my BlackBerry Bold.
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Mr. Sures has three phones: an iPhone 4s, a BlackBerry Bold and a satellite phone kept in case of emergency like the time he was at the Great Wall of China and couldn't get cellular service.
The surge of Blackberry Bold 9900 upgraders in Europe during September and early October may have spiked the web traffic by Blackberry owners in Europe to a level the Slough center was unable to cope with.
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The P'9981 offers many of the same innards as the BlackBerry Bold, complete with a 1.2GHz single-core CPU, HD video recording capabilities, 640 x 480 display, 8GB of onboard memory, a microSD expansion slot and an inbuilt NFC module.
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MasterCard recently approved two BlackBerry models (one Bold, one Curve) for its PayPass program, meaning the devices can store virtual credit card data in their SIM cards.
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The good news for Research In Motion is that it now seems that the most important new Blackberry model, the Bold 9900, is slated to debut in the U.S., Europe, India and the Middle East in August.
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While we're on the subject of BlackBerry devices, the Bold 9790 -- a device that officially launched a month ago -- is also making it to the UK as a SIM-free device as soon as January 9th.
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This was a week of bold, new beginnings for BlackBerry.
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We're not sure why the Wall Street Journal just posted up a piece talking about BlackBerry OS 6.0 and the Bold 9800 QWERTY slider as though we haven't been running leaked pictures and videos of them for months now, but whatever -- the story also apparently confirms RIM's Foleo-like tablet plans and says the device could be out by the end of the year.
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Either way, perhaps the most interesting thing about the hire is that RIM just underwent a major renovation of its brand image around the time of the Bold and Storm releases -- and BlackBerry users tend to love the way their devices generally operate (Storm notably excepted), so any jarring change to the experience risks alienating huge swaths of the base.
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The new version of the Bold has a browser that should have enticed Blackberry users into doing a lot more browsing.
There will be a global BlackBerry replacing the 8830 that takes styling cues from the Bold (this is likely the device known internally as "Niagara").
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This is not the moment to price the Bold 9900 to only tempt consumers gripped by old-school Blackberry nostalgia.
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With a 720 x 720 Super AMOLED 3.1 inch display, the Q10's screen is slightly larger than its touch hybrid predecessor, the Bold 9930, and sports a much tighter pixel density of 328ppi (BlackBerry claims the display is 360ppi, which doesn't jibe with our math).
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