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 & Noble and thousands of other locations.
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!]