If there’s a smartphone company more blessed than Research in Motion I don’t know them. RIM’s made a hugely successful business out of basically selling the same damn phone in a zillion different configurations with tiny differences between models. Carrying on the tradition is the just announced BlackBerry Bold 9700 (aka Onyx). Look for it to hit AT&T and T-Mobile during November for about $199 after contract. At first this device looks cool until you notice it has the same processor as the Bold it replaces – and a mere 256 MB onboard memory versus the 1 GB of the Bold 9000. Respectably RIM axed the greaseball in favor of track pad and ROM gets a boost from the prior Bold’s 128 MB to 256 MB so now you’ll only reset your memory 4 times a day versus the 6 you were used to. For the rest of us these specifications look an awful lot like a BlackBerry 8900 with a 3G modem squeezed inside or a Tour with Wi-Fi.
