The Blackberry Bold 9000 is a business device by Blackberry and has been on the market for more than a year. This phone is loaded with Wi-Fi, GPS and 3G support and is presented as a very desirable upgrade for existing users of Blackberry 8800.

The Blackberry Bold 9000 owes much of it’s stylish built to the Blackberry curve and it comes with a glossy chrome highlight on the edges. This device comes with a full QWERTY keypad that has become the hallmark of Blackberry devices and appears to have tidier keys for better workability. At 133 grams, this one is lighter than the Storm and is only available in black color. The display of the phone is a 2.6 inches screen with 265K colors and a 3:2 aspect ratio. The phone book allows the user to organize contacts in sub groups that helps in separating personal and business contacts. A Trackball navigator is located at the center of the device and comes handy for navigating through the menus. This smart-phone comes loaded with a 1GB internal memory that can be further extended up to 8GB by using microSD cards. The Bold is also a Class10 GPRS and Class10 EDGE device and uses an HTML web browser to give access to the internet. Blackberry has incorporated its own operating system in this phone that runs on a 624 MHz processor. The phone connects to any local area network through the built-in Wi-Fi which also allows the phone to be synchronized with a PC or a laptop. 3G service ensures that data can be downloaded at a fast pace with HSDPA at a rate of 3.6Mbps. Bluetooth and USB facilitate in cost-effective data transfer and sharing between compatible devices.

The Bold is also equipped with a 2 mega pixel camera that comes along with an LED flash for taking shots even in low light conditions. The included media player can play a plethora of files that includes MP3, WMA and AAC+ while the video player supports DivX, WMV, XviD and 3gp formats. Blackberry has also included it’s own version of Maps application that synchronises with the built-in GPS that comes with A-GPS support.

The power unit of the Blackberry Bold 9000 is a standard Li-Ion battery which supports a talk time of up to 5 hours and a standby time of about 310 hours in 3G service. Few other attractive features and applications have also been added like the Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF), Organizer, 3.5mm audio jack and Voice dial/ memo.

The power unit of the Blackberry Bold 9000 is a standard Li-Ion battery supports a talk time of up to 5 hours and a standby time of around 310 hours of 3G service. A few other interesting features and applications are added, as the document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF), Organizer, 3.5-mm audio jack and Voice dial / memo.