Blackberry® Bold Goes On Sale in the U.S.

After slight delays in October, the BlackBerry Bold has finally goes on sale in US, offered by AT-T. The BlackBerry Bold smartphone is available now for as low as $299.99. Unlimited corporate e-mail and data access via BlackBerry Enterprise Server or BlackBerry Professional Software are available from $45 a month when a qualified voice plan is also chosen. Voice plans start at $39.99 per month. BlackBerry Bold customers with unlimited data plans also qualify for free AT-T Wi-Fi service with more than 17,000 hot spots including Starbucks, Barnes and Noble and thousands of other locations.

“Election Day is all about choice, and the addition today of the BlackBerry Bold to AT-T’s industry-leading roster of smartphones gives AT-T customers yet another fantastic choice through which they can have a superior experience in accessing e-mail, making a phone call, browsing the Web or performing myriad other data functions,” said Jeff Bradley, senior vice president of Devices for AT-T’s wireless operation. “Quite simply, the BlackBerry Bold is the best BlackBerry smartphone ever, and it’s available from the world’s leading provider of BlackBerry services only to AT-T customers here in the U.S.”
The BlackBerry Bold comes pre-loaded with several popular applications including AT-T Navigator, CV (Cellular Video), YELLOWPAGES.COM Mobile and selections from AT-T Mobile Music service - XM Radio Mobile and MusicID. AT&T also provides customers with tens of thousands of uses for their BlackBerry Bold smartphone through content available in the AT-T MEdia Mall and from third-party partner sites.
The BlackBerry Bold smartphone features a lustrous black exterior, satin chrome-finished frame and a half-VGA (480 x 320 at 217 ppi) color display and a newly designed full QWERTY keyboard. On the inside, a powerful new 624 megahertz (MHz) mobile processor that provides impressive performance, more storage memory than ever before - 1 gigabyte (GB) on board and up to 16 GB via its microSD/SDHC expansion slot - and a rich set of multimedia capabilities, including a media player for music, videos and photos and a 2 megapixel camera with built-in flash, zoom and video recording, as well as an optimized Web-browsing experience with desktop-style depiction.
SlashGear has done an unboxing, hands-on and a review on the new BlackBerry Bold for AT-T, check them out if you are getting one!
Source: (www.slashphone.com)