Verizon Wireless outs BlackBerry Bold 9930 ahead of announcement [video]

By on Jul 26, 2011 at 7:45 AM
mobile July 26, 2011

Ahead of an official announcement expected on Tuesday, Verizon Wireless let slip a promotional video starring its upcoming flagship BlackBerry smartphone, the BlackBerry Bold 9930. First revealed exclusively here on BGR, this next-generation Bold smartphone is the handset BlackBerry fans have been clamoring for. It features a sharp 2.8-inch touchscreen above the famous full QWERTY that RIM’s phones are known for. While the Torch was the first BlackBerry device to pair a touchscreen and a full QWERTY, the keyboard was no match for the one found on RIM’s Curve and Bold smartphones. Thankfully, the 9930 sports the best of both worlds and although we’re far more interested in seeing what QNX-powered devices RIM has in the works, the Bold 9930 will certainly help tide over legions of BlackBerry fans while they await RIM’s next bushel of Berries. An official Verizon Wireless video showing off the new Bold 9930 follows below.

[Via TeensTalkTech]

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  • Anonymous

    It’s the same phone over and over. I’m so glad I got away from BlackBerry. The only people I know who actually have them are seriously idiots. The kind of people who like Justin Bieber on Facebook.

  • http://twitter.com/andreharry Andre Harry

    It’s actually quite nerve breaking to see the guy typing with one finger….

  • MushroomStampN

    looks like every other blackberry.. Yawn*

    Tiny ugly Screen

  • Android User

    I can see RIM selling 10 million BlackBerries by the end of Q4.  What you don’t understand its the corporate aspect of a BlackBerry.  Most people who post here are consumers and don’t work for a big business…  Thin BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server)  How many companies already have these and pay for corporate phones?  Is it easier to do away with a BES and support an android device or iPhone that cant be controlled as easy as a BlackBerry can???  With BES you can disable SMS Text, Bluetooth, Wipe a cell phone remotely…  RIM is bigger in the corporate competition than the consumer competition…

    • Anonymous

      They can’t understand your excellent points, Android User, because so many BGR readers went to TTT State U, majored in some shit liberal arts degree, work at Best Buy or Wally World, and rely on mommy and daddy for clothing, shelter, and family plan text sliders that they pass off as the latest Droid to their fellow hopeless TTT friends.    

  • Anonymous

    As much as I’ve disliked blackberry, this does not look too bad actually. Mind you, this should have been out last year. At the same given moment it is great to see RIM stepping their game up, I just hope it’s not too late. The things I love most about Apple and RIM is they design and make their own products. This can help vastly with quality control. (Lets not bring up the Storm here though, ok?) :-P

  • http://twitter.com/JoeMDickson Joe Dickson

    Will be my next phone as soon as it is released in Canada….

  • KingBerry

    HATERRRRRS.
    This device will sell. The Bold 9900/30 looks great in my opinion.
    Don’t like it? Don’t get it. Simple as that.
    & this was leaked yesterday evening on N4BB & CB. So you may want to remove your “first revealed”

  • http://twitter.com/SirCatalyst Justin Vincible

    If this is truely what BlackBerry fans have been clamoring for, RIM will be out of business in 5…4…3…2…

  • Anonymous

    instead of a 2.8in screen they should have tried harder and added a 3.0 screen

  • Anonymous

    Can anyone confirm if the camera is Auto-focus? Also is there a non-camera version? I would hope that since this is RIMs top of the line device, that the camera should be on par with current camera technology.

  • Vincefosterjr

    Why does he mention 4G in the video?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DIJC7QCUMXJPENMCV3FSL7JP6I Jana Guerrero

    I just paid $22.87 for an iPad2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $675 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, MetaCent. com

  • Fastwalking

    Its interesting, BB is apparently going apfter the market of older, less computer savvy people – small screens, ever-present keyboards, touch screens AND trackpad (???) same old, same old.    It doesnt even look any different than the Bold of two years ago or more.  BB has stopped trying or caring I don’t know which but I’m quite devastated that they have not even tried to keep up.

    This is the vehicle they hope to battle iphone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S II ?????

    • Anonymous

      Your right, and the iPhone 4 looks like the iPhone 3gs, 3g, original iPhone and my iPod Touch.  The UI is the same too for the past several years, but hey they revolutionized cut and paste so that has to mean something.  Too bad I have to hook my iPod and iPad up to my computer every time it needs an update.  Based on your criteria I guess Apple has stopped trying and caring.  And the Galaxy S 2 doesn’t look any different from the Galaxy or any other slate Android phone over the past two years.  So I guess all of those phone companies stopped trying and caring too.

      For that matter, cars, trucks, planes, pens, laptops, etc. all pretty much look like what they did two years ago, so I guess by your flawless logic companies that make these kinds of things haven’t tried to keep up.   
      Bravo showing off your TTT intelligence.  Now go beg mommy and daddy for some gas money for your Civic so you can go meet your other TTT friends at the Taco Bell parking lot tonight.

  • Meficortez

    Wow it’s funny how people start talking shit to each because of a phone,,,I mean it’s just a PHONE! Nothing more nothing less….

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