#BlackBerry Bold Series

Yesterday evening, Globe Telecom did a launch of the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 with a couple of offers to prepaid and postpaid subscribers. 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. 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. The BlackBerry Bold 9700's newest competitor would be the Nokia E72 and while they're neck-and-neck in terms of the major features, the E72 has a few additional features up its sleeve. The BlackBerry Bold 9700 also missed a couple of things, some of it is due to geographical limitations: First, the BlackBerry App World is still not available in the Philippines. Read more in our articles including "BlackBerry Bold 9700 launched and priced" and "BlackBerry Bold 9700 Review".