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Continuing with its BeBold marketing campaign, Research in Motion is giving a BlackBerry Bold 9900 everyday through May 31st in its BlackBerry Bold A DAY CONTEST.
By the end of the contest which started March 22nd, RIM will have given away 70 BlackBerry Bold 9900 devices worth just shy of $50,000.
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Research in Motion issued a press release last week announcing the availability of 5 new BlackBerry 7 devices in the Philippines.
New devices include:
Check out the full press release after the break…
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After much too long a wait, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 is finally available on AT&T. There has been no ‘official‘ word on why it has taken AT&T so long to release the Bold 9900 which has been very popular on on T-Mobile as well as the Bold 9930 variant on Sprint and Verizon, however, we believe it is because AT&T wanted to sell as many BlackBerry Torch 9810 devices, which are exclusive to AT&T, as possible.
The AT&T BlackBerry Bold 9900 will set you back $199.99 on a 2-year contract with a minimum data plan of $15 per month. You can pick up the AT&T BlackBerry Bold, of course, from AT&T, and, we’ve also seen it at Best Buy.
This morning via press release Research in Motion announced that the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and BlackBerry Curve 9360 have become the world’s first SIM-based smartphones to receive MasterCard PayPass handset certification, allowing BlackBerry users to pay for goods and services using NFC (Near Field Communications) at merchants that accept MasterCard.
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AT&T tweeted earlier today that the BlackBerry Bold 9900 is coming soon. AT&T hasn’t stated why it has taken so long for the nation’s largest GSM network to get the Bold 9900, however, we believe AT&T held back the 9900 in an effort to sell as many BlackBerry Torch 9810 devices, which are exclusive to AT&T, as possible.
Carphone Warehouse is giving away a BlackBerry Bold 9900 in a contest that runs through October 3rd. To enter you first must like the Carphone Warehouse page on Facebook. Then you can enter for a chance to win.
Good Luck
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 is finally now available on T-Mobile, but, man is it expensive. You can pick it up for $299.99 on a 2-year contract and that is after a $50 mail-in rebate. The device will set you back 350 bucks out the door…
[Via T-Mobile]
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I have to admit that I’ve been a fan of touch screen smartphones going all the way back to Windows Mobile devices that you had to use a stylus on. I am also on the record for saying that the the keyboard on the original BlackBerry Bold 9000 is the best physical keyboard any smartphone has ever seen. The BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 joins the best of both worlds adding a touch screen that stands on its own against the iPhone or any Android device and reintroducing the best physical QWERTY keyboard of all time.
The title of this commercial is “Harmony”, and, that is exactly what RIM has achieved on the new BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930.
As has been said many times before, BlackBerry 7 is far from a complete overhaul to the BlackBerry OS that has been around for years. It is more or less a refining of BlackBerry 6 that runs on much, much faster hardware. This isn’t to say, however, that there aren’t slick little improvements in BlackBerry 7. The web browser is much faster and actually usable. Still slower than Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 7 in most cases, but, it is in the ball park and doesn’t seem slow in comparison. The screen resolution (Liquid Graphics) seems to be pretty good. Most third party apps don’t take advantage of it, but, the ones that do look great. The Bold 9900 that I’ve played with still takes forever to boot up, but, the 1.2 GHz processor is quite noticeable once it starts up.
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After news hit the web that some Rogers stores were selling the BlackBerry Bold 9900 early, a tweet went out from the official Rogers Twitter account, @RogersBuzz, confirming the official release dates of the BlackBerry Bold 9900 , August 10th, and the BlackBerry Torch 9810, August 12th.
[Via Twitter]