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AT&T has revealed that it will begin offering RIM’s “flagship” BlackBerry Bold smartphone for sale on November 4. The confirmation came as part of the company’s conference call on third-quarter earnings, although the company has now confirmed the announcement.

The BlackBerry Bold was announced in May of 2008, and was initially scheduled to go on sale during the summer of 2008. But summer came and went, with AT&T only saying last month it was being very careful testing the BlackBerry Bold after complaints of dropped calls and poor connectivity hampered the initial release of Apple’s iPhone 3G, which is also exclusive to AT&T in the United States. AT&T’s caution in releasing the handset may have been well-founded: reports have had UK’s Orange suspending shipments of the device until it could work out software problems.  Read more...

Canada’s Research in Motion garnered a lot of attention back in May when it announced the BlackBerry Bold, sporting a 480 by 320-pixel display along with 3G data capabilities along with integrated GPS and Wi-Fi. The BlackBerry Bold represented RIM’s first new smartphone platform in almost two years…and here, almost five months after its announcement, carrier partner AT&T has yet to put it into any U.S. customers’ hands. And now come reports from the UK’s Orange have the carrier suspending shipments of the units in order to work out a software problem.

Canada’s Research in Motion has announced its new BlackBerry Bold 9000, the company’s first new smartphone platform in two years. The BlackBerry Bold takes solid aim at the business and professional market, improving the BlackBerry’s raw performance by rolling in a 624 MHz processor and 3G wireless broadband capability, along with a new 480 by 320-pixel LCD display.

"The new BlackBerry Bold represents a tremendous step forward in business-grade smartphones and lives up to its name with incredible speed, power, and functionality, all wrapped in a beautiful and confident design," said RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis, in a statement.