BlackBerry Bold now available -- in Chile

Movistar's Chilean outpost has now become -- somewhat surprisingly, may we add -- the very first carrier in the world to launch the BlackBerry Bold and put it into subscribers' hands. The carrier's making sure everyone knows what a coup they've managed to pull off, too, proudly proclaiming "FIRST ONES IN THE WORLD" with a red banner draped across the Bold's image on Movistar's site. Pricing seems a little high at 299,990 Chilean pesos (about $588) on a two-year contract, but hey, you've gotta pay to play; just how badly do you want to be one of the first people on the face of the planet (John Mayer notably excepted) to put this thing to use?

[Via Engadget Spanish]

[zbot @ Aug 4th 2008 8:04PM]

Nice. Now, when will T-Mo USA release this thing?

[Zach @ Aug 4th 2008 11:14PM]

jesus h. christ.

WHY speak of the iphone in this context?

[Sergio @ Aug 4th 2008 8:06PM]

Cool im in chile but already gota HTC Diamond and it kickss everyones asssss

[cboy007 @ Aug 4th 2008 10:20PM]

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.

[Sachin @ Aug 4th 2008 10:37PM]

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.

[Sergio @ Aug 4th 2008 11:24PM]

HTC DIamond type is great! Best I used so far.
And yes after some tweaking the Diamonds dedicated video mem makes magic!

[grull27 @ Aug 4th 2008 8:13PM]

So when does it come to America? :-/

[krepitor @ Aug 4th 2008 8:21PM]

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.

[derX @ Aug 4th 2008 8:54PM]

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.

[hugoliva @ Aug 4th 2008 9:43PM]

@derX
I assume you are one of those that think Colombus dicovered the US and not the whole continent then.

[Tony @ Aug 4th 2008 9:49PM]

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.

[kavendano14 @ Aug 4th 2008 10:26PM]

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).

[Ruben @ Aug 4th 2008 10:43PM]

Damn Mainfest Destiny.

If the USA cant take it by force, they will take it by name.

[derX @ Aug 4th 2008 10:55PM]

@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.

[dcny @ Aug 4th 2008 11:14PM]

@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

[derX @ Aug 4th 2008 11:32PM]

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.

--------

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.

[Franco @ Aug 29th 2008 9:31PM]

And Chile isn't part of America?

As Johnny Cash said "America is the continent, not this country" (when talkin' about United States)

[localteklinkdotcom @ Aug 4th 2008 8:24PM]

didn't Christ do the first review?

[Richard @ Aug 4th 2008 8:33PM]

Whenever I think of cutting edge cell phones... I think of Chile.

[Joe @ Aug 4th 2008 8:33PM]

No, but I think Jesus did

[The Dude @ Aug 4th 2008 8:38PM]

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!'»

[Franko @ Aug 4th 2008 9:16PM]

at U$600, believe me, a im not laughing :-)

[Raimundo O. @ Aug 4th 2008 8:47PM]

VIVA CHILE MIERDA!!!

[phanbouy @ Aug 4th 2008 9:30PM]

long live Chilean shit?

[cristian @ Aug 4th 2008 10:26PM]

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.

[Theo Detweiller @ Aug 4th 2008 10:32PM]

Actually, the closest translation to American English should be "Long live Chile, F*** yeah!".

[phanbouy @ Aug 4th 2008 11:27PM]

@Theo

wow... i didn't realize Team America had such international appeal!

[Jonathan-DBOSS @ Aug 5th 2008 12:00AM]

¡Eso es carajo! ¡¡Viva latino-américa!!

Anyways, I'm living in the US so... when's this thing coming to Florida?

[Theo Detweiller @ Aug 5th 2008 12:04AM]

@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).

[Arthur @ Aug 4th 2008 8:55PM]

I guess having a Bold would make smuggling more efficient.

[derX @ Aug 4th 2008 9:02PM]

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.

[Lazarpandar @ Aug 4th 2008 9:04PM]

I lol'd.

[Arthur @ Aug 4th 2008 9:18PM]

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!

[gad get @ Aug 5th 2008 12:49AM]

I'm Canadian too, but being Canadian doesn't automagically make up for being a douche. That takes a change of attitude.

[pekosROB @ Aug 5th 2008 9:10AM]

Corona in Canada? Do you mean Corona in Mexico? I'm confused...

[turri50 @ Aug 4th 2008 8:58PM]

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[derX @ Aug 4th 2008 8:58PM]

Ahh, yes, my favorite Bible story.

*feels warm and toasty*

[jaime @ Aug 4th 2008 9:08PM]

hands on:

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[co_novillo @ Aug 4th 2008 9:10PM]

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

[GiF @ Aug 4th 2008 10:43PM]

lawl

[Ron @ Aug 4th 2008 10:46PM]

that was purely terrifying (terrifying?, hmmm, did i spell that right?)

[Ron @ Aug 4th 2008 10:48PM]

why?, why?

[aleenm88 @ Aug 4th 2008 10:52PM]

What the hell is Chile?


Is it a mexican state?

[The Dude @ Aug 4th 2008 11:28PM]

Is that you Miss South Carolina?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

[gad get @ Aug 5th 2008 12:51AM]

I sure hope that was a feeble attempt at a satirical joke, aleenm88.

[Marcus @ Aug 4th 2008 11:09PM]

No one cares about Chile. US please

[Jonathan-DBOSS @ Aug 5th 2008 12:02AM]

Your mom's Chilean, she cares.

[ipodman715 @ Aug 5th 2008 7:10AM]

Yes, my mom actually is ^_^

[Xavier @ Aug 5th 2008 11:08AM]

Viva Chile!!!

[brentb37043 @ Aug 4th 2008 11:49PM]

@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.