BlackBerry Bold now available -- in Chile
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Aug 4th 2008 7:54PM
posted Aug 4th 2008 7:54PM
[Via Engadget Spanish]
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Nice. Now, when will T-Mo USA release this thing?
jesus h. christ.
WHY speak of the iphone in this context?
Cool im in chile but already gota HTC Diamond and it kickss everyones asssss
about that...i'm considering waiting until the HTC Touch Pro (raphael) but i'm wondering if it's worth the wait...is the keyboard on the diamond as easy to use as say the one on the touch pro will be? how is the battery life? thanks.
They're selling it in Chile? It must be a "hot" phone! Get it? Get it? Like, chili pepper hot? Like, li - no one's laughing, are they.
HTC DIamond type is great! Best I used so far.
And yes after some tweaking the Diamonds dedicated video mem makes magic!
So when does it come to America? :-/
You mean NORTH America, because It has arrived already in the South...IN CHILE HA! HA! Awesome, those lucky chileans must be laughing pretty hard at us.
Wow, don't you love it when people try to correct others and are wrong?
He means the United States. If he wanted to say North America, the continent, which is always called North America when being referred to he would've said that. Instead he said America, which is more often used to reference the United States of America than the aforementioned official name.
Wouldn't it be tragically ironic if grull27 were referring to the continent America? Hah.
@derX
I assume you are one of those that think Colombus dicovered the US and not the whole continent then.
While we are nitpicking here...
"Wouldn't it be tragically ironic if grull27 were referring to the continent America?"
derX, "America" is not a continent. Only "North America" and "South America" are.
They have similar names, but it is literally, a world of difference.
America is a colloquial name for the U.S., the continent is called America because every continent has a female name in Latin (Europa, Asia, Africa, etc). It's understood that America is the U.S. because of the influence of the U.S., but the North and South America thing is only taught in the U.S. (That I know of).
Damn Mainfest Destiny.
If the USA cant take it by force, they will take it by name.
@hugoliva
Umm, I don't really see where you're going with that, but okay. As kavendano14 said, colloquially, when someone says America and not the Americas or something like that, it is generally understood that said person is referring to the USA. If another country of which I was aware had America in the name, I'd certainly disambiguate if the context called for it. When he said America, it was pretty clear to what he was referring. Though I might have accidentally omitted a word--will get to that next--I don't believe anything I said points to my being ignorant, so I don't see from where your Columbus comment came.
@Tony
Hah, I knew I was going to make a mistake there. LOL I meant to put a North in front of that America in question. Yeah, I make typos and omit words/chucks of sentences all the time. Perhaps I should more careful when posting. Perhaps. LOL Thanks for pointing that out, btw. Gave me a good laugh. LOL
@kavendano14
Thanks.
@Ruben
Good for you. You made a funny. I know I LOL'd.
@kavendano14
"America is a colloquial name for the U.S"
You mean the USA
by your saying of America equals USA than US could mean Mexico or the USA since Mexico is the United States of Mexico while the USA is the United States of America
" the continent is called America because every continent has a female"
wrong its called America because it was named after Amerigo Vespucci
In other parts of the world North & South America are just known as America because some places consider North & South America one continent just like some call Europe & Asia Eurasia because there one continent.
You need to get up on your Geography & Geology
Ahem. Brought to you via our friendly, neighborhood Wikipedia.
"For Waldseemüller, no one should object to the naming of the land after its discoverer. He used the Latinized version of Vespucci's name (Americus Vespucius), but in its feminine form "America", following the examples of 'Europa' and 'Asia.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_america
"You need to get up on your Geography & Geology[.]"
If you're going to try to be pedantic AND condescending, don't suck at it.
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If we're going to share knowledge and opinions, can we not do it in a non-hostile manner?
No hard feelings and no offense taken from anyone. Let's just try to be respectful of each other.
And Chile isn't part of America?
As Johnny Cash said "America is the continent, not this country" (when talkin' about United States)
didn't Christ do the first review?
Whenever I think of cutting edge cell phones... I think of Chile.
No, but I think Jesus did
UPDATE:
John Mayer was reached for comment. He did so in Spanish,
«¡Jajaja! ¡John Mayer fue el primer del mundo, bitches! Con mis cojones grandes conseguí el Bold hace meses...desde Mayo. Asi es que como dicen en inglés, 'You ain't got shit on me!'»
at U$600, believe me, a im not laughing :-)
VIVA CHILE MIERDA!!!
long live Chilean shit?
English is too simple to give an accurate translation to that...
is more like "Long live Chile", "Mierda" is simply an expression, doesn't actually means shit, it means nothing.
Actually, the closest translation to American English should be "Long live Chile, F*** yeah!".
@Theo
wow... i didn't realize Team America had such international appeal!
¡Eso es carajo! ¡¡Viva latino-américa!!
Anyways, I'm living in the US so... when's this thing coming to Florida?
@phanbouy:
Actually, the phrase predates Team America for about 100 years (at least), and is not seen as a cuss-word in that context (at least in Chile).
I guess having a Bold would make smuggling more efficient.
If you were to use the Bold's GPS, you'd see that comment was no where near funny, but smack dab in the middle of offensive.
I lol'd.
Forgot about the GPS! No more misplacing the field!
Just a joke relax! I am Canadian and I cant get a Bold!
How would you feel if you could only buy Corona in Canada!
I'm Canadian too, but being Canadian doesn't automagically make up for being a douche. That takes a change of attitude.
Corona in Canada? Do you mean Corona in Mexico? I'm confused...
Here are more photos and info
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Ahh, yes, my favorite Bible story.
*feels warm and toasty*
hands on:
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i'm from chile and you need to count that here we pay about twice as american my ipod touch costed about 588 dls too so i dont think youll pay that much
lawl
that was purely terrifying (terrifying?, hmmm, did i spell that right?)
why?, why?
What the hell is Chile?
Is it a mexican state?
Is that you Miss South Carolina?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
I sure hope that was a feeble attempt at a satirical joke, aleenm88.
No one cares about Chile. US please
Your mom's Chilean, she cares.
Yes, my mom actually is ^_^
Viva Chile!!!
@dcny
I'm not exactly sure how to "get up" on Geography & Geology or how the study of rocks and the composition of earth's land mass has any bearing on semantics within the English language.
@Marcus and everyone from the U.S.:
Is sad to know that the people with the biggest militar power and the biggest economy in the world only know three countries in the world: U.S., Iraq and Mexico, or the rest of the world for them.
Thanks to Chile you get copper, and that copper is and was used to made the computer that let you post.
American = formaly know as the people from the american continent
?= formaly know as the people from the United States
Greetings to all of you
Has anyone seen that Eddie Murphy movie Coming to the United States of America. It is super!
OK STOP!
All you guys taking about the F@%/$ America thing. I was commenting and having fun, that's all. Good for the chileans, that's all.
Do you know what is the real issue here?
We obsess to be first in everything and sorry we aren't (to much of this self center crap you even start believe in it)
Our damn country doesn't have a proper name!!
Even Mexico is named United States of Mexico.
Notice the diference...they have a name and us....ohh perhaps USA?
You see we are not as clever as you may think.
Your comments confuse me, but I can agree with you on one point: naming a country "United States of [continent]" is pretty lame.
jajaja!!, i´ve never realized the fact that "United States of America" is not a name!!, that was good.
Huh?
saw it in Hong Kong last weekend w/ Vodaphone, thought it was already released....
It was. 1988. Sexual Chocolate!
it´s all bush´s fault.
viva la obama.
Nice to see these things happening in my country. I'm a movistar client, but already have a Blackberry Curve and I'm not looking to upgrade. Specially at that price, it's funny how if something is worth 199 bucks, here it costs 199.000 pesos (1 USD = 500 Pesos aprox. in real currency convertion).
Viva Chile Mierda!
So you pay US$398 in Chile.
The funny part then is that you are getting ripped off!
Man the economy of your country must be pretty solid to afford those prices.
I was researching your telecommunication system and it's one of the best in the "Americas" due to the geography of the country.
Interesting stuff, even in Canada they struggle with the whole 3G for the iPhone and you have 3G for almost 3 years.
keep rocking chileans!
Viva Chile!!!
that's argentine slang, asshole. i'm pretty sure you don't care about the difference, though
Let me repeat it
You're an asshole.
For those that are wondering about release in North America. . . The word on the street is that as long as it launches with AT&T by the end of August, then T-Mobile, Verizon and Alltel will get the Bold in October. The rumor is that RIM is still having problems with stability in the updated OS, so it's launch with AT&T may be pushed back to September, pushing the other carriers release dates back to November.
The question is, why go for this (though I love my QWERTY too!) when you get get the 100% touchscreen BlackBerry Thunder on Verizon in October? My buddies at RIM say it's PIMP!
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