BlackBerry Bold 9000, the latest-announced high-end smartphone produced by Research in Motion, has been
approved by the FCC and
is now ready to be released in the US. Of course, this will not happen too soon, as AT&T, the first US operator to carry the handset, will only launch it sometime in August.
The FCC approval solves the
SAR problem appeared about a week ago, when the Bold was spotted on T-Mobile Germany's website as having a SAR value of 1.80 W/kg. Since the maximum SAR value admitted in the US is of 1.60 W/kg, the info posted by T-Mobile is probably not accurate - otherwise, the FCC would have not approved the BlackBerry smartphone.
The FCC cleared the GSM / HSDPA BlackBerry Bold, but there are rumors that a CDMA version of the device also exists. This will allow Verizon and Sprint to launch the Bold too, later this year.
For the moment, there are no details about the US price of the new BlackBerry. We do know, however, its European retail price, as the smartphone was announced by T-Mobile Germany to be available starting 21 July for no less than 550 Euros - that's about $887. Hopefully, the American retail price will be lower.
As for the features of BlackBerry Bold 9000, in case you don't know them yet, they include: a wide TFT display with 480 x 320 pixels, GPS and BlackBerry maps, Wi-Fi, 1GB of embedded memory (expandable up to 8GB), Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, Media player, full HTML browser, advanced email capabilities, document viewer and a powerful 624 MHz processor. Obviously, the Bold also brings a full QWERTY keyboard and trackball navigation - which are included into all the latest BlackBerry handsets.
BlackBerry Bold 9000 weighs 133 grams, measures 114 x 66 x 14 millimeters and comes with a battery that should provide up to five hours of talk time and up to 13 days of stand-by time.
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