The Bold is finally coming in the US of A and AT&T is bringing it. In case you won’t believe it until you see it then check back with your local AT&T stores. It’s said that some of these stores are going to sell the device starting today. Or maybe they have already done so. In case your favorite AT&T manager doesn’t want to sell one yet, you’ll have to wait two more days. What’s two more days compared to the time you’ve spent waiting so far?

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After AT&T launched its free WiFi access for iPhone users in over 17,000 hotspots across the USA, it looks like the carrier is going to extend that offer to BlackBerry users too. The Bold will get it first followed by other Berries later this year. We’re glad to see other devices will get that free WiFi too, but will AT&T limit it to Apple and RIM customers? Probably it will. After all that might be the reason for other to switch to AT&T and pick up one of these smartphones. Imagine living next to a Starbucks location. That’s like having free internet access from AT&T for life!

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From what we know so far, the BlackBerry Bold is going to be priced from expensive and up, depending whether you choose a plan or not. AT&T will sell it for $300 with a two-year contract or for $550 without it. Best Buy will sell the unlocked version for $660. CompUSA will go even higher to $800 for an unlocked Bold.

Considering that the BOM of the BlackBerry Bold is only $169.41 as estimated by iSuppli, we tend to believe that RIM wants to make quite a lot of money of the Bold. And so does AT&T and other resellers. With such a price, wouldn’t you rather pick the Storm instead?

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I’ve announced the Bold so many times you shouldn’t even read this one. We might see AT&T pushing the release date along like they did before. Now it’s October 27 according to leaked info. Like I didn’t hear that one before!

AT&T had no problems throwing a welcome Bold party with the main guest missing, so we shouldn’t be surprised by anything the carrier will do concerning the Bold. On the other hand we know that Orange has pulled the Bold for various technical issues. What say you?

Is RIM going to launch a Bold-like BlackBerry device with touchscreen support anytime soon? Is AT&T going to pick it up? Is the new device going to arrive earlier than the actual Bold?

We have this photo which, as usually, is really really blurry. Or it’s very badly photoshopped. You get the point. People say the device in the picture was announced at Wireless Enterprise 2009. If you happen to be present at WES then go ahead and talk to RIM representatives and drop us a line.

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Dare I say AT&T might be right when they say the Bold isn’t ready for the U.S. market? Hell no! I am sure they are delaying the launch for a certain fruity reason.

But according to a leaked memo, Orange has decided to temporarily pull the Bold off their shelves. It looks like there are some issues with the device. The whole crisis might be solved in a few weeks as RIM will provide solutions for the undisclosed issues.

What issues?

It looks like we’re not going to see a BlackBerry Bold from AT&T soon. The Bold was supposed to be launched on October 2nd but due to OS-related problems AT&T might delay the launch. Device training was supposed to start on October 7th and since that has been postponed to a later date.

While there’s no official AT&T announcement regarding another Bold delay, we feel it’s coming. That’s even more surprising considering that usual AT&T testing and problem solving for a RIM device is about 2-3 weeks. What’s so special now? I really hope Verizon is going to get the iPhone too. Loosing that exclusivity deal might make AT&T see things from another perspective.

While the Bold is yet to arrive from AT&T in the USA, it looks like NTT DoCoMo is ready to offer the BlackBerry 9000 to its subscribers. It looks like Japan should be a logical move from RIM. But the Japanese market has been proven to be a tough market for RIM to crack.

The Bold is a truly unique device which is already being sold in various countries across the globe. If successful in Japan it might lead the way for other great RIM phones. The Pearl, the Curve and particularly the Storm might also be sent out to Japan if all goes well for Japan.

The Bold is going to be sold in Japan in 2009. Hear that AT&T? Even Japan is getting it?

Hang on to your shorts people, we still don’t know if the Bold is going to arrive in the USA soon. At the rate we are going we’ll probably end up talking about the sale of the Storm instead of the Bold.

The shot above tells us the Bold is going to arrive in Best Buy stores starting with October 26. It might be a human mistake. After all we’ve seen those kind of mistakes all the time. I can’t wait to report on which company sold more RIM devices. My money is on Verizon on this one as I am sure more people will get the Storm when it hits. Sure the Bold is a great phone, but AT&T delayed it way too much.

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We’ve heard about AT&T selling the Bold since the beginning of time itself. Cut it out AT&T and start selling the device already! It’s available in Chile! Sure, you’ll say you don’t want any competition for the iPhone. Is that why you asked for the Bold for yourself? To make sure it won’t compete against the iPhone? iPhone lovers will buy Apple’s handset no matter what other offer is available. But BlackBerry fans will forget the Bold and head to Verizon Wireless to grab the Storm. Would you like that to happen AT&T?

It looks like AT&T plans to finally launch the Bold in the last week of September. The rumored price is $299.00 after a $100 mail-in rebate and with an unmentioned-in-length contract. I don’t know about you but until I’ll see it, I won’t believe it.

Our friends over at The Boy Genius Report have done it again, this time securing themselves a pre-release, press-release, if such things exist.

It seems what you see above is a near finished draft of a press release that AT&T will be issuing regarding the release of RIM’s much anticipated Blackberry Bold.

As you can see, the Bold will officially hit stateside this October, with a specific day left out. Not only that but it also notes the pricing to be $299.99, presumably with a 2-year contract.

Everyone who is waiting for this sleek looking phone to hit AT&T better start saving now because October will come faster than you think!

More draft press-release after the break.

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Despite the $1,300 pricing, a few lucky New Yorkers bought all the pre-sold BlackBerry Bold. BlackberryBusiness.com is the place to go if interested in an overpriced Bold. Too bad they don’t have any others left.

For whatever reason, the sold devices didn’t carry AT&T’s logo on them. That’s weird… What’s the matter people, did they happen to fall off the back of a truck?

I guess the rest of us have to sit and wait for AT&T’s official and cheaper release.

After much speculation, it has finally been made official that the Blackberry Bold will be hitting Rogers come August 21st.

While this doesn’t really effect us here in the States, if rumors are to be believed the phone will be also be hitting other North American carriers by the end of the week. AT&T anyone?

In terms of pricing, co-CEO over at RIM, Jim Balsille lets us know that with a 2 year contract you can expect to pay inbetween $300 and $400 for the latest addition to the Blackberry line. Sign me up.

Via: Yahoo!

We are just two days away from the official BlackBerry Bold launch in the UK. The first carrier ready to deliver it is Orange UK and it will launch the Bold on August 16th.

Business users are rumored to get the Bold for free with some sort of agreement which is around 45GBP or $90 per month for 18 months. There’s no word on customer agreement yet but in two days’ time you’ll find all that info for yourself.

Let me tell you this much, whether I am or not an Apple fan, I still liked better the worldwide kind of handset launch we witnessed in July. Apple is going to do it again on August 22nd for 20 more countries and once more later this year for every country left without an iPhone.
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The BlackBerry Bold has arrived surprisingly in Chile before anywhere else. But now it appears that other carriers in the world are getting ready to launch it. That’s no big news since we’ve heard numerous launch dates rumored for the Bold. It’s time for UK’s T-Mobile to announce it for the UK.

T-Mobile will have RIM’s latest creation in shops and online store starting this September. There are no pricing and plans details yet but T-Mobile will offer the Bold to both T-Mobile Business 1-Plan customer and regular customers.

Vodafone will also get the Bold before the 1st of November while 3 will have the Bold later next year.

After we’ve seen the Samsung Omnia arriving at T-Mobile Germany, another hot smartphone of this year is going to hit the German market. The BlackBerry Bold has been announced to be available from T-Mobile. So let me get this straight: T-Mobile is going to offer the 3G iPhone, the Samsung Omnia and the BlackBerry Bold so far? I guess the Thunder is going to be offered by them too right?
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While we’ve heard news about the future US prices for the BlackBerry Bold, we didn’t know anything about Canadian carrier Rogers and its intentions with the BlackBerry Bold. It has been suggested that the Bold will be available for $199 only, with a three years plan. That looked like a very good price, but a highly unlikely one.

New information suggest that Rogers has the BlackBerry Bold price set up at $299 with a three years contract. It’s still a very good price, comparable to the 3G iPhone 16GB version. Hopefully the Bold will get better plans than the iPhone.

We’re waiting for July 25th for official news. That’s when the BlackBerry Bold is said to arrive. I’m curios how many handsets will RIM sell in their first three days. Especially as the Thunder is only a few months away! Would you get a Bold or a Thunder?

In case you were are waiting for AT&T to release the BlackBerry Bold, well you will have to wait some more. AT&T postponed the official launch of the Bold to mid August.
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May be the mysterious code that surfaced a few days ago wasn’t off the mark after all. Javelin, one of the many BlackBerry devices rumored to be in the works from RIM has been spotted in the wild and if rumors are to be believed, then RIM will be taking a step back and let 3G slip on this full QWERTY business phone. Other details point to the inclusion of a 3.2-megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi, and a huge display. You might as well go ahead and invest on your new BlackBerry Bold in July, as this 2.5G device plans to break out in mid-2009.
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