#BlackBerry in Philippines

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. This is probably the most welcomed change made on BlackBerry handhelds lately and it does seem to perform well. 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. Admittedly, there's not much improvements you can do on a handset which many BlackBerry users deemed almost perfect. Good thing though is that you can now have this unit and use a prepaid SIM from Globe or Smart and just subscribe to the prepaid BlackBerry service. Read more in our articles including "BlackBerry Bold 9700 Review" and "Blackberry Storm: RIM sheds the keypad".