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New BlackBerry 9700 Boldly goes 3G

The Gadget Show  Wednesday 09 September 2009

New BlackBerry 9700 Boldly goes 3G The BlackBerry Bold 9700's optical touchpad is grit and dust resistant.

The trickling dripfeed of GPRS data might have cut it for email five years ago, but ever increasing attachments means you now need a big fat pipe to pull it all down. Which is where BlackBerry’s new Bold 9700 mobile workhorse comes in.

Not only does it pack Wi-Fi for when you’re office bound – or in your favourite coffee spot – but it builds in 3G as well so you can suck down emails faster than people can shoot them at you.

There’s no risk of it going all Zoolander as it rocks BlackBerry’s new optical touchpad – eliminating the chance of a stray bit of grit bringing your rollerball action to a standstill and ensuring it can always turn left.

Throw in all that email goodness you expect from BlackBerry, GPS, visual voicemail and Amazon MP3 access and it’s a proper mobile powerhouse that should be in the shops before you know it.

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Granville Miller

Veiled in secrecy this one. Even now, a month after the show, details are at best sketcvhy. I am trying to get a new phone and was going for the Bold 9000. Is this new phone better. Has it got all the old Bold's stuff on it and more? If so, I best wait. VCertianly, the trackpad is better than the trackball, but the Curve is a cheap imitation aimed at kids. I need a grwon up Blackberry!

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milklink

Useful info, looking forward to the new Blackberry 9700... ____________________ "Daniusoft DVD to BlackBerry Suite" - composed of DVD to BlackBerry Converter and Video to BlackBerry Converter Help you Play various Video/DVD Movies on ur Blackberry as ur will. http://www.daniusoft.com/dvd-to-blackberry-suite.html#135

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