The new BlackBerry Bold smartphone is now being offered to users in Canada through Rogers Wireless. The BlackBerry Bold operates on Rogers’ high-speed 3G network and features a newly designed, precision QWERTY keyboard, built-in GPS, Wi-Fi and a 2 megapixel camera with video recording.

Crafted from premium materials inside and out, the BlackBerry Bold smartphone features a 624 MHz mobile processor that powers the renowned BlackBerry productivity applications, including phone, email, messaging, organizer and browser. The BlackBerry Bold also lets customers edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents directly on the handset using the preloaded DataViz Documents to Go software suite.

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone from Rogers Wireless features:

• Size: 114mm x 66mm x 15mm
• Weight: 136 grams
• Tri-band HSDPA and quad-band EDGE support for global roaming
• (480×320 resolution) color display with integrated lens for eye-popping definition
• Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g)
• Built-in GPS
• 1 GB on-board storage memory
• microSD/SDHC memory card slot
• removable/rechargeable 1500 mAhr battery
• DataViz Documents To Go preinstalled, enabling customers to edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on the smartphone
• 2 megapixel camera with digital zoom, built-in flash and video recording
• USB 2.0

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone (model number: 9000) will be available from Rogers beginning today from $399.99 with activation on any combination of 3 year voice plan and 3 year BlackBerry data plan totalling more than $45 per month from Rogers. Some conditions apply.