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Display
- 65k Colour Screen (480 x 320 Pixels)
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Connectivity
- 3G HSDPA
- Wi-Fi®
- Bluetooth® A2DP
- USB
- GPRS
- EDGE
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Messaging
- SMS (Text Messaging)
- MMS (Multimedia Messaging)
- Email
- Instant Messaging
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Camera
- 2 Megapixel Camera
- Flash
- Camera Settings
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Network
- Quad Band Technology (GSM 850,
GSM 900, GSM 1800 & GSM 1900)
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GSM/GPRS
- Built In GPS
- BlackBerry Maps™
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Video
- Viewfinder Display
- Video Player
- Video Recorder
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Talk Time
- 5 Hours Talk Time
- 310 Hours Standby
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Entertainment
- Downloadable Games
- Organiser
- Phone Book
- Calendar
- Alarm Clock
- Task List
- Organiser
- BlackBerry® Operating System
- Full QWERTY Keyboard
- Trackball Navigation
- Document Viewer
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Sound
- Media Player
- MP3 Ringtones
- Polyphonic Ringtones
- Vibrating Alert
- Voice Dialling
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Memory
- 128 Mbytes Flash Memory
- Plus MicroSD Support up to 8 Gbytes
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Weight & Size
- 133 g
- 114 x 66 x 14 mm
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The Blackberry Bold follows in the same design as most of the other Blackberry handsets out there and whilst not being the most stylish / thinnest handset on the market it does, surprisingly, fit into the palm of your hand snuggly. Weighing in at 133g it is very light when considering the dimensions the handset has.
The front end of the phone could be described as having a very quiet top with the large 480 x 320 pixels screen, a sleek in the middle with the call, menu, trackball, back and call buttons and busy bottom(no puns intended) with the Full QWERTY keyboard which doubles up as the numeric keypad.
The left hand side of the phone is very busy starting at the top with 2 sockets, the top one being the 3.5mm Stereo Jack and the lower being the miniUSB charging / data socket. Just below the miniUSB socket lies a button with 3 protruding spots which acts as the voice command button as default but can be customised. Directly underneath lies the microSD card slot which finishes off that side of the phone.
Moving over to the opposite side we find the rocker volume button at the top and nearer the bottom another customisable button which acts as the camera as default.
he top of the handset has the Standby button which, if I'm being honest, I found a little annoying it it was sunken into the handset and needed a little pressure to get moving.
At the bottom is the microphone and the release button for the back casing.
The back of the phone hosts what I can only describe as a leather look with a plastic feel housing. Whilst this is not something I would normally like I feel that it fist in with the phones unique style perfectly. Sitting at the top of the rear (stop it!) lies the integrated flash and below the 2mp camera lens which has been sunk quite deeply into the housing. The only other thin on the back is the typical blackberry logo etched into the silver plastic that surrounds the camera and flash sections.
Removing the back from the phone allows you access (as normal) to the Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery and simcard area. The first thing I noticed about this was that I was confused as to exactly the battery came out to get into the the simcard slot. There appeared to be a rectangular opening at the bottom which instantly I thought to be the area where the battery released but to my amazement this was not the case. I then looked further up the battery itself and found an etched image of a padlock which suggested to me that there was some kind of locking mechanism to release the battery, again I was wrong. I finally found that the battery could be released by lifting up just underneath the camera lens (Finally!).