Well everyone its August 21st! This means its BlackBerry Bold launch day for Rogers in Canada.  We have heard rumors of more software delays but for now the Bold is available on Rogers.com and its showing as orderable. Pricing goes as follows: $399.99 with three year contract and “regular price” (is that no contract?) for $599.99.

Head on over to Rogers.com for complete details.

CNN.cn has done it again. Now they have successfully taken apart a BlackBerry Bold 9000. If you watch this video you will learn how to take it apart piece by piece, although we don’t recommend it. Click on over to check out the video or check out their other disassembly videos by them.

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That’s right folks! Rogers is officially launching their BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphone this Thursday August 21, 2008. Invites have been sent to the media to attend the Bold launch. Pricing isn’t confirmed anywhere but its expected to launch with a price of $399 with three year and $650 without contract. The Canadian Press is also reporting that the Bold will be launched this Thursday.

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Seems that Rogers’ BlackBerry Bold will remain at $399 with three year contract, however it seems the outright price (MSRP) is better than expected. The Bold will run you $649.99 with no contract, which for some people sounds a whole lot better if you don’t want to be stuck into one of those lovely ball and chain contracts.

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Warning this story is a little sad… Boy Genius was un-loading his car this morning and dropped his BlackBerry Bold. The BlackBerry Bold dropped out of his hands and on to pavement. I can only imagine the pain he must have felt. After picking it up he discovered that it was a little damaged. Moral of the story get some kind of case to protect your Bold.

Check out BG’s Pavement vs. Bold gallery

Interesting enough Rogers has the BlackBerry Bold in one of their new flyers. The price will be a little heavy at $399 with contract and nearly $1,000 without contract. Looks like some people might be waiting for BlackBerry Javelin or BlackBerry Thunder after all… Click on over to see the flyer!

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In just another sign that Rogers is getting close to their BlackBerry Bold launch, they have received a Bold launch kit containing a dummy phone and several brochures plus a rubber skin for it. Recent rumors have pointed to a August 19th launch with would make total sense now. Stay tuned!

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Boy Genius has taken the BlackBerry Bold for a spin many times before. This time he is running the Bold 9000 up against Nokia’s E71 Symbian smartphone. BG’s conclusion is the best part of the whole review because of one line “…the BlackBerry Bold smokes the E71 out of the water in so many ways…” anyways check out his full review.

“It’s a little hard to put this but… we absolutely loved the Nokia E71. It was the best S60 we’d ever used. And it still is, some would argue. There is no doubt it is the finest QWERTY device Nokia has made. Don’t bring up the E90, ok? Even though we had used a Bold prior to our Nokia E71 first review, it wasn’t until we had both devices together that we really had our mind change. This is a personal opinion here, but the BlackBerry Bold smokes the E71 out of the water in so many ways. The E71 is fine as a personal communication device, but once you enter into the realm of corporate email, or even small business, for that matter, the Bold is the reigning king, and will stay that way for a pretty long time.”

Check out BGR’s review of them both

Remember the Rogers roadmap from a few months back? Well here is a new Q3, 2008 guide to all of the upcoming handsets. Within this quarter Rogers will be releasing the BlackBerry Bold 9000, Pearl (Formally Kickstart) 8220, and BlackBerry Curve 8320. No pricing is known for any of the new handsets but its expected the Bold will launch early August, Pearl 8220 Mid-September and Curve 8320 late September.

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Canadian’s are about to jump around with joy over this post! The latest rumor hitting the blogs is that Rogers is launching the highly anticipated BlackBerry Bold 9000 on August 19th. After a few delays this is amazing news for Rogers clients. Pricing hasn’t been confirmed as of yet but you can expect it won’t be too cheap. Another interesting tidbit about the Bold launch is that it won’t be supporting Rogers UMA (Talk Spot) at launch but it will come shortly after…

Also here is an internal document from Rogers comparing their three BlackBerry models:

[Via BlackBerryCool]