White BlackBerry Bold 9700 shows up on RIM's Thai website

For those among us who want to jump on the BlackBerry bandwagon, but desire a slightly more distinctive device -- you know who you are -- here's some official indication of an incoming new color option for the Bold 9700. Commended as perhaps the finest device RIM has been able to concoct so far, the 9700 is now being shown sporting a new, creamy white exterior over on RIM's official Thailand website. Seems like the company is developing a habit of diversifying its handsets' colors after giving the classical black some time to hog the spotlight. Here's to hoping the repainted phones filter out to more local online locations and nearby quality phone retailers nice and quickly. A pic of the newly white rear can be found after the break.

[Hydraulics Posted Apr 2nd 2010 6:31AM]

A white 9700 bold could have looked much nicer than that! I mean c'mon.
Why leave the trackpad black? Why are there black lines between each key in the white keyboard? It looks cheap as hell.

[Atkins Posted Apr 2nd 2010 6:51AM]

@Hydraulics I think the "lines" are in fact bumps. For easier typing. Maybe.

[ddwisdom Posted Apr 2nd 2010 6:52AM]

@Hydraulics
wow, thats racist

/s

[Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi Posted Apr 2nd 2010 8:04AM]

@Hydraulics I do wonder why they left the trackpad black....but I suppose that a white trackpad would get dirty all too fast

[nalakrub Posted Apr 2nd 2010 11:12AM]

@Hydraulics
Those black lines between each key on the keyboard are called spaces.

[Dick Lynch Posted Apr 2nd 2010 2:17PM]

@Hydraulics This would have been news 6 months ago... Not a winner, please Thai again.

[aexls Posted Apr 2nd 2010 4:50PM]

@Hydraulics
The trackpad can't be white for the optics to work properly.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2010 6:33AM]

I'll take the black thank you.

[Sam5959 Posted Apr 2nd 2010 6:35AM]

This colour option has been available in the UK for quite some time... I'll still take the black, though.

[JP90 Posted Apr 2nd 2010 7:20AM]

@Sam5959 No it hasn't, the curve 8250 has been available in white, not the 9700

[Step666 Posted Apr 2nd 2010 3:12PM]

@Sam5959: close.
Carphone Warehouse has it marked as coming soon, with price tiles in their stores.

[Sam5959 Posted Apr 2nd 2010 3:19PM]

@Step666
Ahh, that'll be what's confusing me. Thank you for the correction :).

[siva Posted Apr 2nd 2010 6:39AM]

Then it shoulda been called a Whiteberry.

[dasickninja Posted Apr 2nd 2010 6:43AM]

It's still a Blackberry inside. I'll pass thank you.

[TheLondonExchange Posted Apr 2nd 2010 7:30AM]

The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice!

[smeee Posted Apr 2nd 2010 7:32AM]

is this a tech site or a fashion site ?

[CRA1G Posted Apr 2nd 2010 7:47AM]

I think Blackberry, and/or Engadget, have finally Pinked the Centro with this story.

[Waltah Posted Apr 2nd 2010 8:01AM]

uhhh.....thanks?

[Dr Yusuf AlKindi Posted Apr 2nd 2010 8:28AM]

What is so special about the Thais that they get this first?

Those damnded Canadians are getting their revenge on us for having routed them in 1812

[jarek Posted Apr 2nd 2010 10:45AM]

@Dr Yusuf AlKindi You must be using an interesting definition of "having routed them".

[Prestor John Posted Apr 2nd 2010 2:02PM]

@jarek

Yeah, we routed them straight to Washington DC! They had to burn the capital just to escape our wrath!

[Wesscoast Posted Apr 2nd 2010 8:39AM]

this color could have been released 5 years ago. nice try BB.

[tk719 Posted Apr 2nd 2010 9:11AM]

It's now up for perorder in Th

[nthree Posted Apr 2nd 2010 9:18AM]

now Thailand can pre-order blackberry bold 9700 on rim's partner website as the full price

@nthree

[ToniCipriani Posted Apr 2nd 2010 10:09AM]

Well it's really not the first time BlackBerry released something that's not black, so I don't see that as a "developing habit"...

http://www.gsmarena.com/blackberry_6230-1007.php

[javaFrappe Posted Apr 2nd 2010 11:23AM]

The white is so pretty... but can't we all just BUY the white pieces..

[CeluGeek Posted Apr 2nd 2010 12:16PM]

It looks way better than I expected. I'd still take the black one but this "whiteberry" looks way better than the white Bold 9000 and Curve 8520.

[koneill Posted Apr 2nd 2010 2:41PM]

It looks terrible IMO - the white accentuates all of the part-lines (and those are a LOOOOOT of part-lines).

They really need to get rid of those lines, like they did with the storm. A Blackberry in a Pre form factor would be nice.

BlackBerry ID people = FAIL

[BuffaloX Posted Apr 2nd 2010 5:33PM]

They've offered this version through AT&T since it came out (at least through their Premiere business website). Why is this news?