BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 smartphone is now Available in Nigeria

Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced the launch of the new BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 smartphone in Nigeria.The smartphone will be available through Airtel, Globacom, Etisalat and MTN Nigeria.

BlackBerry Bold 9900 is the thinnest BlackBerry smartphone yet at only 10.5mm,and the first to offer the perfect union of a high performance keyboard and touch display integrated within the iconic BlackBerry Bold design. The new BlackBerry Bold 9900 is also the first BlackBerry smartphone to include built-in support for NFC(Near Field Communications), a new technology that is enabling many new and exciting capabilities, including the ability to pair with NFC-enabled accessories or read

SmartPoster tags with a simple tap of the smartphone.

Distinguished by its beautiful design, amazingly effective keyboard and brilliant touch display, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 is crafted with premium materials including a brushed stainless steel frame that puts the finishing touch on a truly outstanding smartphone.

Waldi Wepener , Regional Director for East, West and Central Africa at RIM, said:“The new BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone offers a powerful combination of an outstanding keyboard and a beautiful touch display that we think customers will love.  Featuring the new BlackBerry 7 operating system, it also delivers enhanced performance, faster browsing and richer multimedia.”

BlackBerry® 7, the operating system for the new BlackBerry Bold 9900, introduces a next generation BlackBerry browser with a significantly faster, more fluid web browsing experience that is among the best in the industry. Combining the dramatically improved performance of the advanced WebKit browser engine together with powerful hardware enhancements, BlackBerry 7 based smartphones deliver browsing results that are up to 40% faster than BlackBerry® 6 based smartphones and up to 100% faster than BlackBerry® 5 based smartphones.

Additional enhancements to this next generation BlackBerry browser have also optimised zooming and panning for smoother web navigation and optimized HTML5 performance for incredible gaming and video experiences.

The new BlackBerry Bold 9900 also features Liquid Graphics™ technology, combining a dedicated high-performance graphics processor with a blazingly fast CPU and stunning high resolution display to deliver a highly responsive touch interface with incredibly fast and smooth graphics.