New BlackBerry Bold 9700 puts it up to iPhone in Thailand

By | 4 February, 2010

Yesterday Research In Motion (RIM) officially launched the BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone in Thailand. Described by RIM as a “key” device for the Thai market, it is an improved version of the popular BlackBerry Bold.

The new Bold is available across all operators in Thailand with a release date of “sometime” in February. The device supports 3.5 G (HSDPA) wireless technology, great for most markets except Thailand, where the technology is not available…and I hesitate to use the word ‘yet’.

In terms of improvements, the new Bold is more pleasing on the eye, with “compact and highly refined design”, with double the internal memory (now 256 MB with an SD slot to for additional memory) while the big new development is a “smoothly integrated touch-sensitive trackpad”. Similar to a laptop trackpad it makes navigating the device easier and more intuitive.

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