I’m thinking really hard about fashion right now

Looks Are Important...

Obviously for a fashion icon (or fashion worshippers), design is an important factor. Lucky for those of us now in the market for a stylish phone, the Blackberry Bold 9700 is quite the masterpiece, aesthetically speaking, and much more distinctive than Blackberry’s of yesteryear.

Hardware Deets Include:

• A compact design and solid feel- This baby means business
• A rubbery, leather looking back- which matches CC’s quilted creations
• Of course, a clicky, backlit QWERTY keyboard BlackBerry practically invented
• No trackball! This Optical Trackpad is so touch-sensitive, you’ll feel like you’re on your laptop’s mouse
• Shiny trim for a little pizazz
• Height: 4.29 inches
• Width: 2.36 inches
• Thickness: .56 inches
• Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Display Screen: 2.44 inches, with 480 x 360 resolution and 65k colors
• Memory: 265 MB of internal memory storage with 32 GB expandable storage

Trackballs are so five minutes ago

...But It’s What’s Inside That Counts

Blackberry has always been known for it’s no-nonsense approach to making things happen, and the Blackberry Bold 9700 does so using operating system v.5.0. Users can read and type e-mails, texts, BBMs and more very quickly and easily, which has always been the claim to fame. This is the true draw many people have to Blackberry, but the Bold 9700 takes it a step further with some nice upgrades in other areas.

Features include:

• 3G High-Speed Data- and did we mention AT&T has the fastest high-speed data in Phoenix? They keep adding cell sites!
• World Phone capabilities, so you can text your boyfriend from the front row of Paris Fashion Week
• Texting, Instant Messaging and Blackberry Messenger with a vengeance
• Mobile E-mail with Push Technology, which retrieves and sends e-mails like a rock
• Multitasking capabilities- What style icon doesn’t need this?
• Web browser with MEdia Net for wireless internet access
• Extra goodies- all the special ringtones, answer tones, cool tools, games, graphics and themes you could ever want
• A Calendar, Alarm and Personal Organizer to keep your soirees in line
• A music player with AT&T Mobile Music
• Music ID- it can identify songs you’re listening to
• A 3.2 megapixel camera with 2x zoom
• Bluetooth Technology 2.1
• The ability to voice dial, voice command, conference, call forward and more
• Unparalleled battery life- The battery capacity of 1500 mAHr Lithium Ion offers up to 456 hours of standby and six hours of talk time

So what do I think? Read on to find out the best and worst feature...