Research in Motion’s new BlackBerry Bold was awaited with great enthusiasm by many and with good reason. The device is considered by the company’s officials the best ever BlackBerry model released and delivers a great package of new features and also an elegant design, with a leather back and rounded contours.

The Bold sports a great high-resolution screen with 480 x 320-pixel TFT and 65,000 colors, measuring 2.8 vs 3.5 diagonally.

The smartphone, released through an exclusive collaboration with AT&T, provides preloaded applications such as YellowPages.com, AT&T Navigator, AT&T’s Mobile Music service (XM Radio Mobile and MusicID). There are also present several business apps, with software from DataViz, Igea Care, TeleNav, Xora.Inc, Antenna Software, Diversinet, Pyxis Mobile, Salesforce.com and Vaultus. In addition to the ones mentioned above, users will also get access to third party applications from MySpace, Facebook and JuiceCaster.

The device is available for $299 with a two-year AT&T contract. Data plans are available starting with a monthly fee of $30 and users can opt for an additional tax of $45 in order to receive access to BlackBerry Professional Software or Enterprise Server that also ensures access to corporate email.

The Bold provides global 3G, a 2.0 megapixel camera with a built-in flash, zoom and also video recording, Wi-Fi, a built-in speakerphone, keyboard backlighting and built-in GPS. It offers a full QWERTY keyboard and its 1 Giga Byte of on-board memory can be expanded up to 16 GB with the help of a microSD. It also features an advanced media player for music and an optimized Web-browser.

"The BlackBerry Bold is the best BlackBerry smartphone ever," stated Jeff Bradley, Senior Vice President of AT&T.