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Last year’s Blackberry Bold proved a big hit for RIM, helping the company shake off their swivel-action, corporate-only associations and open up the platform to regular consumers looking for a solid, fully featured smartphone.

Their new update (or “product refresh” as some ghastly PR types like to call these things) is the Blackberry Bold 9700, an altogether slimmer, lighter and rather sleeker affair which shaves off 16g in weight, and reduces the overall dimensions by 6mm in width, 5mm in height and a pocket celebrating 0.9mm in girth.

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We told you about the new Blackberry Bold 9700 being officially unveiled earlier today – and now the official video has charged out of RIM’s offices, hailed a passing cab to the nearest station, jumped onto a train and caught the express to YouTube central.

There’s not a lot to it mind, but feel free to take a gander at the sheer Blackberryness of it all: Read more…

Things continue to heat up on the smartphone front with RIM debagging its new BlackBerry Bold 9700 handset.

Running the BlackBerry OS 5.0 operating system, this sleek, black and dark chrome number hosts a 624MHz CPU, backed by 256MB flash memory with support for microSD cards up to 32GB.

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