Blackberry recently announced its newest mobile phone, the Blackberry Bold or Blackberry 9000, the new messaging smartphone strives to deliver much more than what is expected form a smartphone messenger - or at least what is expected form a Blackberry one anyways.

The Blackberry Bold still sports the same looks as previous Blackberry handsets. It still has that QWERTY keyboard we all know and love but it has a more slimmer profile and features and interchangeable backplate. The Blackberry Bold features a large TFT display with the same half-VGA resolution as the Apple iPhone’s - 480 x 320 pixels making images and videos look stunning and clear, also a new full QWERTY keyboard and runs on the latest Blackberry OS 4.6. The Blackberry Bold also sports a 624 MHz processor, almost at par with the iPhone’s processor so you can multitask all you want on this device, 1GB of on-board storage, and also a microSD memory card slot with full support for 8GB microSDHC cards and a promise for 16GB support, one such large capacity cards become market available. In order to make use of its high speed processor and superior display, the Blackberry Bold has a high performance web browser that can display full web pages. The browser also supports downloading attachments and streaming videos.

The Blackberry was never known to be a “fun phone”. In fact, their ads are obviously geared for businessmen, however, since the iPhone has bridged the gap between work and play, naturally, Blackberry needs to follow suit. In order to address the Blackbery Bold’s fun side, RIM added a 2 mega pixel camera with video recording capabilities, a superior music player that has an equalizer, and a full-sized headset jack.

Identical to Blackberry 8830 in terms of size, the new Blackberry Bold is the allegedly the first Blackberry smartphone to feature tri-band HSDPA support besides the quad-band GSM/EDGE one. The Blackberry Bold is definitely is packed with goodies as it also flaunts an integrated GPS receiver and Wi-Fi. And of course, it still has what loyal Blacberry users need, access to the Blackberry server and DataViz Documents to Go suite to view and edit Word and Excel documents.

Additionaly, as a customizing option, the future Blackberry Bold users will also be able to buy replaceable leather-like backplates that come in a range of colors.

The BlackBerry Bold 9000 will be available around the world beginning this summer.

Here’s a video of the BlackBerry Bold 9000 from CrackBerry.com