Gulf News stopped by the BlackBerry stand at Gitex to talk about new smartphone offerings on the UAE market.
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00:00Hi, I'm Scott Schroeder from Gulf News. We're here to talk to Khalid Kafel about Research
00:13in Motion and their new phone, the BlackBerry Bold. Why don't you go inside and see if we
00:17can find them.
00:18The BlackBerry Bold smartphone, basically, recently released in the UAE as a product
00:25that obviously went out a few months ago, and it's now being sold in over 60 operators
00:31across the world in 29 countries. It's the fastest smartphone that BlackBerry has come
00:37up with. It carries a 624 megahertz processor with a one gig on-board RAM memory. On the
00:43social side, social networking applications, you can integrate your Facebook application,
00:49you can integrate with Flickr to update your photos on the internet, as well as instant
00:53messaging applications like Yahoo and Google Talk and Windows Live Messenger. Recently,
01:00Research in Motion announced the BlackBerry Storm smartphone with Verizon and Vodafone.
01:08We're not privy to the details of when the launch is going to happen and the availability
01:11of the product, but certainly this is an exclusive smartphone for both Verizon and Vodafone.
01:19Mobile devices have become a must-have. It's not a nice-to-have. Smartphones haven't been
01:25used a lot across the world, and people are really getting more educated about it, and
01:30they will convert to smartphones.