BlackBerry Bold 9000 review: The premium 2008 QWERTY that defined the BlackBerry business phone.
The corporate QWERTY benchmark.
The BlackBerry Bold 9000 was the definitive business smartphone of its moment — an unrivalled physical keyboard, secure push email and BBM, in a premium leatherette body. It was the status symbol of the corporate world right before the touchscreen era swept it away.
01Display
48/10048/100 is one of the weaker display results among flagship phones of 2008 — 11 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
02Camera
40/10040/100 is one of the weaker camera results among flagship phones of 2008 — 16 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
03Performance
44/10044/100 puts it above the 42-point average for flagship phones of 2008.
04Battery
66/100At 66/100 this is one of the strongest battery showings among flagship phones of 2008 — 7 points above the cohort average.
05Build
70/100At 70/100 this is one of the strongest build showings among flagship phones of 2008 — 9 points above the cohort average.
06Value
56/100At 56/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among flagship phones of 2008 — 13 points above the cohort average.
- Best-in-class physical QWERTY keyboard.
- BlackBerry push email and BBM.
- Premium leatherette build.
- Two-day battery + microSD.
- Tiny non-touch screen.
- BlackBerry OS was dated for media.
- 2 MP camera.
- Browser was poor.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 22-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .