Category: Bold 9000 Series

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AT&T’s San Franscisco launch party for the Bold

By James on Oct 22, 2008 in AT&T (Cingular), BlackBerry, Bold 9000 Series, RIM, USA.

RIM and AT&T held a BlackBerry launch event in San Francisco last night. Looks like they actually had AT&T branded BlackBerry Bold’s on hand to giveaway there last night! If you saw last week the held a party in New York and didn’t give any Bold’s out just coupons for a free one. Now don’t get me wrong a free Bold is great but it would have been better if they got it that night. Anyways the folks over at BBNews got a hold of some party shots. Read More

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Rogers 2009 BlackBerry Lineup!

By James on Oct 20, 2008 in BlackBerry, Bold 9000 Series, Canada, Curve 8900 Series, Rogers, Rumors, Storm 9500 Series.

We missed this one over the weekend. Boy Genius has released Rogers’ 2009 Blackberry lineup! Its filled with one new device every quarter and it will all start off with the BlackBerry Curve 8900 (formally known as Javelin) in Q1 then followed by a BlackBerry Storm varriant in Q2, BlackBerry “Magnum” (Curve 8900 with 3G) for Q3 and last but not least the BlackBerry Pluto (Bold-like device with touchscreen) for Q4 of 2009. Keep in mind they most likely won’t be getting the internal names and call the devices Magnum and Pluto. Also we should expect to see several new devices at WES (Wireless Enterprise Symposium) 2009 :-).

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Latest word on AT&T’s Bold release date

By James on Oct 17, 2008 in AT&T (Cingular), BlackBerry, Bold 9000 Series, USA.

As you may have read AT&T held a launch party in New York City the other night and basically didn’t have any Bold’s on hand to actually give out. Instead they gave everyone a I.O.U card to get a Bold at a later date. Anyways Boy Genius seems to have obtained an email stating the latest release date for RIM’s new 3G BlackBerry Bold 9000. It seems the Bold should arrive on October 27th and that the pricing is still unknown.

Apparently the issue that was holding the Bold back from releasing on AT&T has been fixed up and its all good to go! Stay tuned.

If you want a little tease to hold you over check out over gallery for the BlackBerry Bold >>

[Boy Genius Report]

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It costs $169.41 to build a BlackBerry Bold…

By James on Oct 16, 2008 in BlackBerry, Bold 9000 Series, RIM.

A recent report done by research firm iSuppli shows that it costs RIM $169.41 to build each BlackBerry Bold. That’s quite a nice markup considering it costs $649.99 CAD with no contract from Rogers. The report says that materials for the Bold cost $158.16 and assembly and testing cost $11.25 bringing the total to $169.41. Another interesting fact is that the BlackBerry Curve only costs RIM $103.00 in materials. Gee I wonder how much the Pearl costs?

[Via BBNews / Source]

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iBold Theme for your BlackBerry Bold

By James on Oct 15, 2008 in BlackBerry, Bold 9000 Series, Downloads, Themes.

Elecite has just introduced a new theme for your BlackBerry Bold called “iBold”. This theme features a clean and crisp design with high defination graphics that look amazing on the Bold’s display. The theme is available for purcahse now from Elecite for only $6.99 USD.

Head over to Elecite.com to check it out >>

Check out other themes we like >>

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Hands-on photos of BlackBerry Bold

By James on Oct 12, 2008 in BlackBerry, Bold 9000 Series, Canada, RIM, Reviews, Rogers.

I know this is really late because Rogers’ Bold has been out for a while now but I had a chance to test one out for a few days. Because of the short time span I had with the device I didn’t write a review on it. I just took lots of pictures and tested out the browser and stuff. I will say though overall I was impressed with the design of the unit as it reminded me of my old BlackBerry 8800. I loved the leather back and the keyboard, which I found to be designed much like the 8800. Anyways here is a gallery of pictures: Read More

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Rogers releases Bold OS 4.6.0.162

By James on Oct 11, 2008 in BlackBerry, BlackBerry OS, Bold 9000 Series, Canada, Downloads, RIM, Rogers.
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If you own a Rogers BlackBerry Bold then you might want to read this. Rogers and RIM have officially release a new OS upgrade for the Bold (4.6.0.162) which will hopefully fix a few issues such as drop calls, memory leaks, battery life, etc.

The Rogers Bold ships with OS 4.6.0.125 so this is quite the upgrade. You can download the operating system directly from RIM’s website here then install the package and open up Desktop Manager it should update from there. Make sure you do a backup before installing the software (in case for some reason you loose everything).

Download Link for the OS >>

Thanks Don for emailing tip!

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Orange dropping BlackBerry Bold, too many issues?

By James on Oct 10, 2008 in BlackBerry, Bold 9000 Series, International Networks, RIM, Rumors.

It is rumored that UK cell carrier Orange has dropped the BlackBerry Bold from their lineup due to quailty issues. Apparently there is a internal memo floating around stating that they will not continue to offer RIM’s Bold until RIM has fixed the known issues with it. Maybe they are getting a bouncing 3G signal as well? Cause as you may know AT&T still has not released the device in the United States due to extensive testing…

[Source]

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Safe mode hidden in BlackBerry Bold

By James on Oct 10, 2008 in BlackBerry, BlackBerry OS, Bold 9000 Series, Tips n' Tricks.

Looks like you don’t have to wait for the BlackBerry Curve 8900 (Javelin) to run safe mode on your BlackBerry. Apparently the newer version of OS 4.6 for the BlackBerry Bold will be featuring safe mode. What this means is if your running a third party application and it causes your BlackBerry OS to die you can boot it into safe mode and fix it (think Windows).

To activate safe mode:

1. Remove and reinsert the battery
2. Wait for the red LED light to go out when that happens HOLD the escape (back) key.
3. When dialog appears asking you to enter safe mode select yes

[BBNews]

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Two new CDMA BlackBerry devices for 2009

By Adam on Oct 05, 2008 in BlackBerry, Bold 9000 Series, Pearl Flip 8200 Series, RIM, Rumors, Un-Released models.

A very interesting article has arrived that indicates there will be two new CDMA Blackberry devices coming in 2009 (code named Niagara and Apex).

The Niagara is essentially the CDMA version of the Bold, which will have styling similar to the BlackBerry Thunder and will be the next generation of the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition. Apex is the CDMA version of the Pearl Flip 8200 Series (Kickstart) that many GSM carriers (such as T-Mobile, Rogers, etc).

[Source]

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