Blackberry 9000: Living up to the hype?

When it comes to phones, Blackberry is top of the elite gadget chain. Blackberry doesn't have that many users unlike the major players in the cellphone industry such as Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and Sony Ericsson but Blackberry does take pride in not only it's quality (completely reflecting this is its price) but it's high usability functions. Blackberry completely transcends standard phone gadget quality by combining PDA functions and phone functions. It doesn't have touch screen capabilities but Blackberry makes up for it with its reinforced screen for durability.

The highly rumored Blackberry 9000 has finally been out on the market and the challenge now begins whether it is worth all the talk everyone made over it. In a world where happiness is derived from gizmos and gadgets, where does Blackberry Bold 9000 stand?

In a quick rundown here is what Blackberry BOLD (I just love saying that) 9000 has to offer:

(from: GSM Arena)

The new Blackberry Bold features a large TFT display with the same half-VGA resolution as the Apple iPhone's - 480 x 320 pixels. The Bold messenger packs in a new full QWERTY keyboard and runs on the latest Blackberry OS 4.6.

The Blackberry Bold makes use of a 624MHz processor and 1GB of on-board storage. It also has a microSD memory card slot with full support for 8GB microSDHC cards and a promise for 16GB support, one such large capacity cards become market available.

Identical to Blackberry 8830 in terms of size, the new Blackberry Bold is the allegedly the first Blackberry smartphone to feature tri-band HSDPA support besides the quad-band GSM/EDGE one. The Blackberry Bold is definitely is packed with goodies as it also flaunts an integrated GPS receiver and Wi-Fi.

A pair of stereo speakers, a 2 megapixel camera with LED flash, Bluetooth and a USB port all fill up the feature set.

A lot of the people who waited with bated breath on the release of Blackberry 9000 (and their excitement just get fueled a lot more by rumors creeping in on each other) seem to be disheartened by the Blackberry BOLD 9000 at first glance. They'd be like "This is it? THIS IS IT?!" But there is more to the features of this phone than what one would normally see. It's the little things that make its use more enjoyable. The display, first and foremost is awesome! I never imagined it to be that clean and crisp.

As expected, Blackberry BOLD 9000 is expected to deliver huge tasks. It's prepping up the user for such tasks by it's 16GB memory promise. (via micro SD card of course) There really is nothing bad to say about Blackberry BOLD at least not yet. Few people have gotten their hands on it and as of now, all we can do is wait for this gadget to prove itself to us.