Phones that were ahead of their time: BlackBerry Bold 9000 By PhoneArena

Blackberry the names of familiar one for many people, but it doesn't have the same degree of notoriety it garnered around a decade ago, before the iPhone and Android invasion, Research In Motion was thriving in the face of competition throughout the mid-2000s from Microsoft's Windows mobile platform and palms OS. Arguably, the most pivotal year in rims history 2008 saw the release of one of its all-time greatest smartphones, the BlackBerry Bold 9000 fresh off the success of the pearl 8100 in 2006, and subsequently the curb 8300 in 2007. The company decided to introduce a brand-new line into the fold by 2008. The end result was none other than the bold 9000, which is touted by many to feature one of the best physical keyboards of all time. Now, before we get into that, there are several reasons why the bold 9000 is regarded to be when the company's greatest devices ever imagined and conceived while also remaining a champion in smartphone history. For starters, the bold 9000 was a meticulously designed phone that is suited a premium feel something that wasn't always associated with smartphones during the early and mid 2000s compared to its brethren.

It established a new design benchmark for all other BlackBerry smartphones after it ditching the predominantly plastic construction of its predecessors. The bold 9000 was instead endowed with a bowl of the rear, casing and silver accents, which all resulted in a believably premium looking and feeling smartphone. By comparison, it was a dramatic change for a blackberry saying that previous offerings in rim scamp were rather generic. Looking they all exude that cold businesslike facade with their plastic bodies like the blackberry, 8800 that preceded it, the level of sophistication with the bold 9000 design helped to usher in a new era for the company, as many following BlackBerry smartphones employed this new design language. More importantly, the bold 9000 helped to challenge many of its rivals to crap stylish-looking smartphones of their own.

If you look at the vast majority of smartphones that were around prior to it like some QWERTY landscape windows mobile devices, at the time, they look antiquated with their cheap plastic bodies and bulky size. Yes, the original iPhone may be cred did for redefining the standard for all smartphones, but the bold 9000 design was a refreshing change that helped to attract a wider demographic. It was the first and foremost targeted to business professionals. However, the stylish design of the bold 9000 gave more of a mainstream appeal for a smartphone at the time it was beyond gorgeous, which is probably why its design has aged nicely. Secondly, there was the keyboard which, even to this day, is a claim for being one of the best and most versatile, considering that it employed a portrait layout users add up the distinctive feel Beach key, while the tactile response with each press ensure that they were hitting the correct thing seriously.

It was an evolution over previous BlackBerry keyboards, if were to compare its keyboard to the one found with the blackberry 8800 before it. The bold 9000 was significantly more spacious, which helped to keep a users rate constant for that too many typos in the process, unlike today, smartphones, were the minority back in 2008. Even though there were smartphones that featured landscape style, QWERTY keyboards, they were often bulky and didn't offer the finesse that the bold 9000 keyboards brought to the table. Moreover, touchscreen technology wasn't fully matured, seeing that the vast majority still employed, resistive technology, email and instant messaging were also becoming quite popular among smartphone users in time. So the bold 9000 keyboards was perfect in the way that they could quickly and easily tap up replies and other messages without laboring, like they would with a wider keyboard layout.

What's even more amazing is that this particular keyboard, style and layout is still wildly utilized to some degree, with many modern BlackBerry smartphones, the key one and key to feature something very similar with their sculpted keys, which is a testament to say the least, when you consider that the company introduced the bold 9000 back in 2008 seriously, it's a keyboard, that's beloved by diehard BlackBerry users, and when it comes to portrait style keyboards, this one would probably be on the all-time best list. For many people, not only was the bold 9000 mainly targeted at business professionals due to its legendary focus on product, but it managed to achieve broader exposure among consumers thanks to its rich multimedia experience prior to its release, people didn't use BlackBerry smartphones for fun. Instead, a black bear was largely seen by the masses as the typical business phone one. That's all work driven, that's the reputation that accompanied research, emotion for a long time; well, that's until the bull 9000 survival. Of course that may be a bit tough to imagine, but it's high resolution screen, despite its diminutive size over other smartphones and time, brought videos to life with which detail true.

It was smaller than the displays that accompanied all touchscreen phones at the time, but it was nonetheless a new beginning for the company. There was also the updated music player which accompanied the release of BlackBerry OS 4.6, the music player matched the interfaces of the looks, but sad from the bold 9000 speakers was high quality in tone. And, yes, there was even a headphone jack for the convenience of popping in your favorite pair of headphones. These multimedia functions weren't, really new, but the fact that they were available helped to broaden its appeal. No longer where , smartphones held to the reputation of being only geared towards business professionals, mainly because the bold 9000 smashed that barrier, making it hip and fun for the average consumer to use we may take for granted today's phones that can play 4k HDR videos on their enormous greens, but smartphones back then lack this kind of fidelity.

Many of them were primarily focused on productivity, so for a blackberry to focus and emphasize its efforts on multimedia was a huge redirection. On top of all the other great things established by the bold 9000. The phone's overall performance was also consistently snappy, which made navigating around the interface a breeze when it was released. The bull 9000 was packing the fastest processor in a Blackberry, making its performance extremely snappy again being a responsive is a trait that's typical from today's smartphones, something that we may take for granted today. But back then there were still few phones that exude fluid responses.

In contrast, Windows Mobile smartphones were riddled with long loading times, slower responses and, like the general that the bold 9000 brought to the table with its performance running out, it's impressive highlights. The bull 9000 was also notable for packing tribe and HS DPA global 3G support. Since most other BlackBerry smartphones were known to feature slower edge data speeds that was particularly noble because it was a global Trotter of sorts by being compatible with various cellular networks around the world. Typically, phones back, then didn't offer the necessary radios to be compatible with other networks, but the bull 9000 proved its versatility in this area. Best of all those 3G speeds help with downloads and uploads.

The switch to 3G from 2g is akin to 4G LTE strides, so you can imagine how exuberant people were with 3G speeds coming from 2g back then it's hard to believe it now, but the bull 9000 definitely brought a sense of optimism in the face of the iPhones onslaught for what it's worth. It's astounding that the bold 9000 somehow managed to stay relevant and that's especially impressive, given that it didn't feature a touchscreen. Today's BlackBerry is a totally different beast. Having ditched the old BlackBerry OS of yesterday and openly adopting Android, you could say that a lot of the company's history can be traced back to the bold 9000 successful one prove that it could still remain relevant in the face of newer threats, and that is it for this video guys, I hope you enjoyed this look back on this great device. If you want to learn more about the BlackBerry Bold 9000, you can check out our website for intercom.

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