The Blackberry Bold 9000 is a chunky, yet attractive smartphone with some awesome in-built features including

Blackberry Bold 9000

HSPDA and conference calling, as well as a full QWERTY keyboard which has its own backlighting.

It is the heaviest and largest Blackberry so far, weighing 126g, measuring 148mm by 66mm by 15mm. It has 1GB of built-in memory, 128MB of flash memory and the option to use a microSD card for additional memory.

The Blackberry mobile phone is certainly no replacement for a dedicated camera as its camera is only 2 megapixels, which does include an LED flash. Video recording is possible, although a microSD card may be required to enable such recording, if memory is low.

WordToGo and SlideshowToGo functions allow the user to edit Word and PowerPoint documents, and it is also possible to view Excel and PDF files. Security was clearly high on the creator’s mind as there is the option for password protection and keyboard lock as well as support for encryption when using the Blackberry Enterprise Server.

As to be expected of any swish mobile phone these days, an MP3 player is part of the package, and the user can listen to streamed music broadcasts thanks to its in-built streaming facilities.

Additional features of the device include a built-in speakerphone, GPS navigation which works with Blackberry maps, Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity including the option to receive RSS feeds, although it does not support Flash.