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The Blackberry Bold 9900 and 9930 seem competent

RIM has just announced the BlackBerry Bold Touch. The new handset comes in two versions: the 9900 is the GSM 3G and 4G version, and the 9930 is the CDMA world-phone, with quad-band GSM and and dual-band UMTS.

With those various confusions dealt with, let’s take a peek inside. The Bold Touch runs on a 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, has 768MB RAM (and storage of 8GB to 32GB), a 5MP camera (which shoots 720p video), a 2.8-inch, 640 x 480 (287 ppi) display, all crammed into a pedestrian, thin-ish, corporate-friendly shell.

The Bold Touch also ships with a new version of the BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 7. This brings a new, HTML5-compatible browser, voice search and a smart feature which lets you seperate business and pleasure, segmenting things like Twitter and Facebook into their own ghetto. You know, because Twitter and Facebook are never used for work. I kid. This compartmentalizing means you can carry just one phone and be certain your drunken party videos will never turn up when you’re in a meeting.

It looks like a strong but unspectacular update from RIM. Which is of course exactly the kind of update its market — the IT department — loves.

Available this summer, price tba.

BlackBerry BlackBerry product page [BlackBerry]

BlackBerry Bold press release [BlackBerry]

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