Taipei, Taiwan - Taiwan Mobile and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today launched two new BlackBerry® smartphones based on the BlackBerry® 7 Operating System (OS). Powered by the latest BlackBerry software (including Chinese language support), the new BlackBerry® Torch™ 9860 will be available from Taiwan Mobile tomorrow and the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 can be pre-ordered through Taiwan Mobile at the same time.
Featuring RIM’s next generation hardware and software platforms, these new BlackBerry 7 based smartphones offer users a choice of two attractive designs and deliver the ultimate in communications, multimedia and productivity.
The new BlackBerry Bold 9900 is the thinnest BlackBerry smartphone ever, offering both a large keyboard and brilliant touch display. The BlackBerry Torch 9860 introduces an all-new, all-touch design featuring the largest display on a BlackBerry smartphone to date.
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 and BlackBerry Torch 9860 both support Chinese characters within the user interface and various applications, and both smartphones also support popular Chinese input methods.
“Taiwan Mobile is committed to bringing a variety of BlackBerry smartphones to enhance our customers’ mobile life,” said Paul Huang, Vice President of Taiwan Mobile. “The new BlackBerry Bold 9900 is the best-in-class full QWERTY smartphone while the BlackBerry Torch 9860 is our most up-to-date all-touch smartphone. We believe these new products will appeal to both business users and consumers.”
“We’re pleased to bring the new BlackBerry 7 smartphones to Taiwan,” said Urpo Karjalainen, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific at Research In Motion. “The BlackBerry solution offers an industry leading mobile communications experience that customers love and we think they will be thrilled by the faster performance, enhanced browsing, richer multimedia and localized support delivered by the powerful new BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Torch smartphones.”
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