Smart offers new Blackberry model

Leading wireless service provider Smart Communications expects more mobile professionals to embrace the Blackberry technology with the introduction of a new model that promises to make enterprise mobility a more rewarding experience. 

Smart is the first to offer to the local market the Blackberry Bold 9000 smartphone, Research in Motion’s latest, most powerful and most elegant handset to date. 

RIM is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Its portfolio of products, services and embedded technologies include the Blackberry wireless platform. 

There are about 10 million mobile subscribers using the Blackberry technology worldwide. Smart, on the one hand, has more than 7,000 Blackberry subscribers.

Taking advantage of Smart’s superior broadband network, the much awaited Blackberry Bold will provide the ultimate mobility solution for business users.

 “The (Blackberry) Bold postpaid packages are primarily targeted to mobile executives who value high-speed network connection and a handset packed with comprehensive smartphone functions and high-end design,” according to PLDT Group senior vice president and head for customer sales and marketing Eric Alberto.

Alberto added that the combination of Smart’s high speed 3G/HSPA network and Blackberry Bold’s 624-mHZ processor fully supports the need of mobile professionals to multitask using both voice and data services.

Blackberry Bold will be available to both new and existing Smart postpaid subscribers by end-October. It will be initially offered to Smart’s corporate customers. The handset will be bundled free starting at Corporate Plan 2500.

For individual accounts, Blackberry Bold will be offered free under Smart Gold Plan 3500 and Smart Infinity Plan 5000. All postpaid plans will be covered by a 24-month contract period. 

The Blackberry Bold 9000 supports HSPA network technologies. It is packed with 128 megabytes of flash memory and one gigabyte of onboard memory, and equipped with a 624 mHz Intel processor. Previous Blackberry handsets only had 312 mHz processors. 

A sleek, lightweight device at only 136 grams, the Blackberry Bold offers the capabilities of wireless email, corporate data access, organizer, and Internet browser in a single device. It also functions as a mobile phone, two-megapixel camera, video recorder, media player, mobile map and global positioning system. It boasts of a long battery life extending up to 13 days on standby or about five hours talk time.