Research In Motion has announced the BlackBerry Bold 9780 smartphone. The 9780 runs on BlackBerry 6 OS and it has a built-in QWERTY keyboard. There is also an optical trackpad, WiFi, GPS, 5 megapixel camera, 512MB RAM, and microSD slot. The phone runs on GSM Quadband (1900/1800/900/850 MHz). T-Mobile will be selling the 9780 for $129.99 with a service contract on November 17th.

Tomorrow T-Mobile is selling the BlackBerry Bold 9700 for $199.99. This is great news for T-Mo since it is their first 3G BlackBerry phone that they are selling. The specs of the phone include a 480×360 display and a 3.2 megapixel camera.

T-Mobile has sent out a press photo of the BlackBerry Bold 9700 (with the codename Onyx).  This will be T-Mobile’s first 3G-enabled BlackBerry mobile phone on their network.  The phone will is expected to be available by this November.  The phone will have UMA support and WiFi.  There will also be corporate e-mail built in and visual voicemail.  The 9700 will also have TeleNav GPS Navigator and the Amazon MP3 store pre-installed.  List of other specs are listed below:

- A new trackpad
- UMTS/HSDPA
- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
- 480×360 resolution screen
- WiFi (802.11g)
- OS 5.0
- QWERTY keyboard
- 3.2 megapixel AF camera
- Bluetooth

AT&T is getting ready to launch the BlackBerry Curve 8900.  AT&T announced themselves that they will be carrying the phone shortly, but did not provide a release date.  A tipster at Boy Genius Report stated that the Curve 8900 will become available on May 25th.  AT&T is also expected to drop the price of the BlackBerry Bold on June 1st to $199.99 with contract.  The Curve 8900 will cost about $150 with contract.  Not bad prices to pick yourself up a BlackBerry.

[via BGR]

DoCoMo is the biggest mobile phone operations company in Japan.  Today they announced that they are halting the sales of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Bold phone because of complaints regarding overheating during charge.  About 4,000 units of the high-end Bold were sold by DoCoMo.  Thirty of those sales have complained about the keyboard area heating up.  No reports have been made about phones catching fire or being burned.

[via Reuters]