Gallery: BlackBerry goes bold

The BlackBerry Bold is RIM's first BlackBerry smartphone to support tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks and comes with integrated GPS and Wi-Fi..

By Andy Smith, Contributor May 12, 2008 at 12:24 a.m. PT

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Matthew Miller describes the new BlackBerry Bold:

"The upcoming BlackBerry Bold smartphone (aka 9000 series) will support tri-band HSDPA networks and include integrated GPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth radios. This baby will run with a speedy 624MHz processor and include 128MB Flash and 1GB on-board storage capacity, along with a microSD slot. The display is 480×320 high resolution and is not a touch display as some rumors stated. A major weakness with BlackBerry devices has been the web browser, but the press release states that this new browswer will support full desktop-style HTML and also allow streaming via RTSP - real-time streaming protocol."

RIM gave no official release date or pricing was given, other than to say it will be coming out this summer.

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The back of the BlackBerry Bold.