The BlackBerry Bold 9930, Research in Motion's first new smartphone in nearly a year, hit the Verizon Wireless Web site today and will be in stores August 25.
The Bold 9930 will set you back $249.99 with a two-year contract, or $509 without. For a limited time, activation and overnight shipping are free.
RIM announced the Bold 9930 in May for Verizon and Sprint, billing it as the thinnest BlackBerry smartphone yet at 0.41 inches thick.
The Bold 9930 sports a high-resolution touch screen, 1.2-GHz Snapdragon processor, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera and 720p HD video.
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And of course, it's the first to pack in the new BlackBerry 7 operating system, the latest and final version of the current platform before RIM reportedly launches devices with QNX in early 2012.
PCMag's mobile analyst, Sascha Segan, did a hands on with the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9300 back in May and said it was only a "very subtle upgrade" to existing BlackBerry 6 Bolds. See the slideshow above for more photos.
RIM debuted the 9900/9300 in Canada earlier this month (US$170 on Virgin Mobile, with contract).
Earlier this month, RIM also announced three more BlackBerry 7 smartphones, the BlackBerry Torch 9810, 9850, and 9860 for AT&T, Sprint, and U.S. Cellular (see slideshow below). RIM analyst Mike Abramsky of RBC Capital predicted all five BlackBerry 7 phones will be released in August.
For more on the future of BlackBerry, see BlackBerry 7: Dead on Arrival? and How RIM Turned Two New BlackBerrys Into Five, as well as 8 Things the Next BlackBerry Needs to Triumph. PCMag's networking analyst Samara Lynn, meanwhile, argued that BlackBerry Is Still Tops for IT.
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