“Rogers today became the first carrier in North America to ship the BlackBerry Bold, RIM’s first smartphone to ship with 3G for GSM-based phone networks,” Electronista reports.
The device features “480×320 LCD as well as GPS, Wi-Fi, 1GB of permanent, lockable onboard storage and a two-megapixel camera,” Electronista reports.
“Rogers prices the phone at $400 when paired with a combined voice and BlackBerry data plan worth at least $45 per month. The price is roughly twice that of the $199 8GB iPhone,” Electronista reports.
“AT&T is rumored to have similar pricing for its own launch, which is expected weeks later,” Electronista reports.
Full article here.
Smackdown: RIM’s BlackBerry Bold vs. Apple’s iPhone Web Browser
[Attribution: Mobile Computing Mag via Gizmodo. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “RadDoc” for the heads up.]
Apple iPhone carriers Rogers and AT&T will have quite the sales pitch: “It’s here. The new BlackBerry Bold. Twice the price. Half the device.“
ahh… looks sOOO 2003…
I guess you really do get what you pay for…
More money gets you more crap.
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This is why I always felt, no insisted that Apple would never bring out a cell phone. I felt that Apple likes to control the entire user experience. No matter how good the device is, you’re going to have problems because the cell phone system is nothing if it isn’t problematic. No matter how good the device, you’re going to have people bitching about call quality. No matter how well engineered it is, you going to have to deal with the likes of Verizon, AT&T;, T-Mobile, Sprint, Rogers, etc. These companies are the epitome of bad anti-consumer “service” organizations and I thought, (naively) “Apple will never get into bed with these people.”
I knew that Apple would never bring out a cell phone because while discriminating people purchased Macs, and easily navigated around the hurdles of a Windows world, every moron with a credit card might purchase an Apple branded phone thinking that somehow this would improve the generally abysmal American cell phone experience. I just knew Apple didn’t want any part of dealing with such people.
Apple should have listened to me.
I will admit that there is one location where, without fail, the phone literally drops the call on 3G every time. I don’t know where the fault lies, but for now, I’m happy that the data transfer with 3G seems to be great. I don’t keep it on 3G regularly due to battery concerns, so I guess I’m missing the problem by using 3G sparingly. Nonetheless, GPS alone makes this phone better than the first version AND it cost me $299, whereas it would have cost me $499 before, I believe, for 16gb.
If you consider the cost per button, it’s almost cheap!
The fact that people keep blaming Apple for dropped calls amazes me. There should be certain laws….
1. You must have a government issued ID to reproduce.
2. You must understand the different parts of technology before you make ignorant 1st post comments about it.
you meant anyone WITH a government id can NOT reproduce?!?
How about the tagline “Twice the price. Half the speed.” instead…?
@Dev Singh,
That’s because 2003 is around the time RIM started working on this overpriced piece of shit.
Crameridiot says that this device is the “new babe magnet” and you should sell AAPL and buy RIMM entirely based upon the release of this Bold product.
What an incredible idiot. iPhone numbers in January are going to be unprecedented. iCal it, baby.
Remove either letter ‘B’ from the name and it suits it better:
The ‘Lackberry Bold’ or even better.. the ‘Blackberry Old’.
Suits it admirably.
Ya’ll see this…it seems 2 or 3 years behind the times instead of ahead of the times. http://your.rogers.com/business/productsservices/wireless/blackberrybold.asp
Cramer is just messing with small shareholders, ready for the big guys to sweep in and clean when APPL goes ballistic and goes through the stratosphere… about $325.
“”It’s here. The new BlackBerry Bold. Twice the price. Half the device.”
Good one MDN!
The new Bold has a 2 megapixel camera and 1 gig of storage, and a 480×320 screen!
Specifications like that make me forget all about my iPhone.
If I was a RIMM shareholder, I would be screaming for the CEO’s head on a platter.
and make an iphone app that turns the iphone into a blackberry
got that?
Wait! I thought Apple was the one with overpriced hardware… ;~)
Certainly a Bold move, bothering to release it…
Who in their right mind will buy this overpriced junk?
Blackberry is commiting suicide selling this stuff…
Hey everyone now be fair all of the plastic buttons cost real money to make and assemble, so the low spec.s and high price are justified as cost recovery. It’s like Windows Vista MIcrosoft has to recover all the cost of the many thousands of engineers and QA staff that worked on Longhorn even though it’s code was scrapped and they started over with the 2003 code base shoehorning in what longhorn features they could make run and work with the 2003 base.
So, Non-innovation is expensive buggy and bloated just as Innovation is expensive and sometimes needs some work to get all the bugs worked out.
RIM needs a UI designer as the icons look old and unattractive like they were from a low res. Black & White OS and then just moved to a medium res. color OS with no real thought about their appearance. I guess all the expensive plastic buttons soaked up the salary for a good UI designer.
Now that is what I call “Bold” pricing and marketing. When your competition lowers the price we double it. Make sense- I will take two please!
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MDN: I see what you did there…..
……and I like it.
at a price like that i’d like two please!! apparently its the only way you get stereo sound listening to music on the new device!
I think twice the price, half the phone is being a bit generous based on memory alone. Or perhaps MDN failed basic math.
I think it’s hilarious that there’s an ad for the Blackberry at the end of a video that’s just demonstrated how inferior it is.
-jcr