AT&T will start selling RIM's Bold 9000 in the US Nov. 4. This new flagship BlackBerry model was initially expected in the summer, but as RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis suggested in San Francisco, the Bold was still being tested by AT&T, and the carrier was being extra careful with network problems after widely publicized problems with Apple Inc.'s latest iPhone 3G. Apparently, if too many 3G users got on the network at once, it slowed considerably. Also 3G signals do not appear to penetrate buildings as well as 2G.The Bold 9000 did launch in Canada and some overseas markets, but not in the the US, and the apparent delay has been partly blamed for the recent decline in RIM shares.
The Bold features a HVGA (480 x 320 pixels) resolution display, 1 GB of internal memory into, a microSD card slot for up to 16 GB of extra memory, tri-band HSDPA and quad-band EDGE, 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth and GPS. Other features include a 2 megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom, improved QWERTY keyboard with thin metal strips between each row and a 3.5mm headphone jack. All this running on a 624MHz StrongARM processor with full MMX, the fastest CPU that can be found on a handset.
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