blackberry bold 9700

Yesterday evening, Globe Telecom did a launch of the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 with a couple of offers to prepaid and postpaid subscribers. Being first to market with the Bold 9700, Globe is offering a pre-paid price of Php28,995. If you are on Globe Post-paid, you can get the Blackberry Bold 9700 for free starting at Plan 3500. You can read the review of the BlackBerry Bold 9700 here. Quite a lot of recent RIM's BlackBerry phones looked quite alike (Bold and the Curve) and it could mean one of two things -- either RIM doesn't have any more design ideas left or it has almost perfected the form factor that many people loved about the qwerty smartphone that it doesn't want to veer away from it. That is the case of the BlackBerry Bold 9700. I haven't formally reviewed the previous generation BB Bold 9000 but having tried it a couple of times before and basing on the specs, one can make the conclusion that there's not much can be done on the BB Bold 9700 except for a number of tweaks and optimization. The BlackBerry Bold 9700 sports almost the same exterior as its predecessor -- glossy, black-piano finish in front, rubbery lining on the side with a streak of silver and a nice leather back panel. Read more in our articles including "BlackBerry Bold 9700 launched and priced" and "BlackBerry Bold 9700 Review".