Blackberry Bold 9780 caught on Vodafone Netherlands website

By Edwin Kee on 10/20/2010, filed in Home > CellPhones

While RIM has yet to make an official announcement for the Blackberry Bold 9780, it seems that Vodafone Netherlands jumped the gun by placing it on its website. It will be made available for purchase from early November onwards, where it will be going for free as long as you choose a €17.50 plan on a 2-year contract, or purchase it outright without any strings attached for €509. This BlackBerry 6-powered smartphone will come with a 480 x 360 resolution display, a full QWERTY keyboard, 512MB RAM, and a 5-megapixel camera among others. Will you be picking this up in your part of the world when it is made available?

RIM: RIM is the acronym for Research In Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry brand. RIM was founded in the mid 90s by Mike Lazaridis and with Jim Balsillie and went IPO (Initial Public Offering) in 1998. Its claim to fame was to make mobile email really effective and enterprises quickly adopted its devices and associated software and services which were highly lucrative. With the rise of iOS and Android devices, the BlackBerry franchise bumped into trouble and its decline prompted RIM to take a radical step by overhauling its BlackBerry operating system (OS) completely with QNX. The first version of the QNX BlackBerry OS is BlackBerry 10 or BB10.

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