RIM has already been moving away from the trackball to the trackpad, but this new image of a yet to be released device shows neither. All signs point to the first touchscreen BlackBerry Bold.
There’s gonna be an update for BlackBerry Bolds on AT&T later this afternoon that will add a download icon for visual voicemail, the ability to manually pick between 3G and 2G-only modes, and “general handset optimizations”.
The spotlight this week may be pointed at the iPhone 3GS—and with good reason—but it’s not the only flavour of smartphone ice cream. Here’s a quick path to more info about all smartphones (and no dumb ones!)
When I tried to access Blackberry’s App World the other day, I got the above error message. But when our old mate Seamus tried it on his Bold, he got straight through, like his Bold was a Batphone and the App World was Commissioner Gordon’s office.
That rumoured BlackBerry Bold with a touchscreen was just a whisper before, but now we’ve got a shot of the packaging to prove its existence. Let’s see what we know about this new hybrid.
Yes, folks, The Phone advertorials The Phone competition has come to an end and four observant Giz, Kotaku and Defamer readers have won themselves a BlackBerry Bold.
Hit the jump to see if your entry was selected:
Rumours surfaced last week about the possibility of visual voicemail coming to the BlackBerry Bold—rumours that seem to be a certainty now that BGR has screenshots of the service in action.
Well, we ever so subtly hinted at it, and now it’s here. Thanks to FOX8′s new action/game/reality/whatever-other-description-you-can-think-of program The Phone, we have 4 Blackberry Bolds to give away, valued at $999. To enter, simply watch tonight’s premiere of the The Phone on FOX8 at 8.30pm and answer this two part question;What is the final clue to the first memory card (hint: you’ll find it at the petrol station), and Using the comments field below, tell us in 25 words or less what challenge you would make the contestants face if you were the ‘Clue Master’.
Entries close January 21st at 5pm. Just a word of warning, though; the comp is also running on our sister sites Kotaku and Defamer. So to beat all those game and gossip-heads and win the high speed smartphone, with LCD screen, you’ll need to be extra creative…
The Phone premieres 8.30pm tonight, on FOX8.
