Just after a few hours of the official announcement, T-Mobile has just announced on its twitter feed that it will launch the 4G (HSPA+) capable BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone later this year, which has been released along with Global phone capabilities equipped Bold 9930 handset. BlackBerry Bold 9900 would be the first smartphone with 4G capabilities.
The BB Bold 9900 is 10.55 slim and has 2.8-inch capacitive touchscreen with VGA resolution ( 287 ppi density), slightly redesigned QWERTY keyboards, 5 megapixel camera with 720p video recording, 8GB internal storage and microSD card slot, powered by a 1.2GHz processor with a Scorpion CPU and Adreno 205 GPU and 768MB RAM.
This handset is a GSM device with a quad-band GSM and tri-band HSPA+ support (up to 14.4Mbps HSDPA).
The connectivity details are – dual-band Wi-Fi – 802.11 b/g/n at 2.4 GHz and 802.11 a/n at 5 GHz, NFC support, GPS with A-GPS and Bluetooth and this handset runs on the newly announced BlackBerry 7 OS (formerly known as BlackBerry 6.1), brings HTML 5 and a new Just-In-Time (JIT) JavaScript engine to the browser, along with BlackBerry Balance support, enhanced universal search, and a new “Liquid Graphics” feature.
Read: BlackBerry Bold 9900 Full Specifications.
Price & Availability
BlackBerry Bold 9900 is set to hit the T-Mobile stores in the U.S. later this year, with an unknown price value. But we would expect it will retail for $199.99 with a signed two-year contract.
[Source: T-Mobile @ Twitter]