Although everyone was expecting RIM’s latest high-end smartphone, the BlackBerry Bold 9000, to be first released in Canada (via Rogers), the handset made its debut “a bit” more to the South, in Chile, via Movistar. Thus, Chilean mobile users are the first people in the world to buy the new BlackBerry (only with a contract agreement, for the moment). The price set by Movistar for the smartphone is a bit surprising, and not in a good way: with a contract for two years, the Bold costs 299,900 Pesos, the equivalent of around 587 USD or 378 Euros.
There are no details about how Movistar managed to get the Bold ahead of other powerful wireless providers such as Rogers or US’s AT&T, but the device is on sale as of today on the South American carrier’s website, found at this address. We don’t know for the moment where the BlackBerry Bold will be available next, after Chile, but Canada, RIM’s home country, should get the smartphone anytime soon - probably before the second half of August. Well, I’m sure Canadian users are eagerly waiting for the event.
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