BlackBerry Bold up for pre-order at Best Buy: $680 smackers

November 19, 2008

brpFiled under: a href=http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/ rel=tagCellphones/a/pdiv align=centera href=http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9062382amp;st=blackberry%20boldamp;lp=1amp;type=productamp;cp=1amp;id=1218014206238img vspace=4 hspace=4 border=0 alt= src=http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/10-27-08-blackberry_bold.jpg //abr //div span style=float: right; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 4px;script digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/BlackBerry_Bold_up_for_pre_order_at_Best_Buy_680_smackers’; /scriptscript src=http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js/script/spanWe already knew RIM’s a href=http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/Bold/BlackBerry Bold/a would a href=http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/10/22/its-official-blackberry-bold-hits-atandt-on-november-4/sell for a stiff $299.99 on contract/a with ATamp;T, but if you’re one of the many ATamp;T users who’d rather not sign a new agreement (or renew your current one), you’ve probably been patiently waiting to hear an unsubsidized price. Here’s it, but we’re warning you, you might want to sit down. The contract-free Bold is listed at $679.99 at Ideal Purchase, and fittingly enough, the product page offers a convenient link for seeking financing. At any rate, it also tells us that pre-orders will typically ship out within one to two weeks, though we’d be hesitant to bet the farm on that. After waiting for, like, a href=http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/12/atandt-launches-blackberry-bold-promotional-site/ever/a, for this handset to finally hit shelves, are you still so anxious to drop nearly seven bills to claim one as your own?br /br /[Thanks, Christen]p style=padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;a href=http://www.engadget.comimg src=http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif alt=Engadget style=float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0; //aa href=http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/blackberry-bold-up-for-pre-order-at-best-buy-680-smackers/BlackBerry Bold up for pre-order at Best Buy: $680 smackers/a originally appeared on a href=http://www.engadget.comEngadget/a on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:14:00 EST. Please see our a href=http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/terms for use of feeds/a.br style=clear:both;/ph6 style=clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;/h6a href=http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9062382amp;st=blackberry%20boldamp;lp=1amp;type=productamp;cp=1amp;id=1218014206238Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href=http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/blackberry-bold-up-for-pre-order-at-best-buy-680-smackers/ rel=bookmark title=Permanent link to this entryPermalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href=http://www.engadget.com/forward/1354564/ title=Send this entry to a friend via emailEmail this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href=http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/blackberry-bold-up-for-pre-order-at-best-buy-680-smackers/#comments title=View reader comments on this entryComments/a pa href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?a=6v75i3img src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?i=6v75i3 border=0/img/a/pdiv class=feedflare a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=1zfcmimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=1zfcm border=0/img/a a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Lhuwmimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Lhuwm border=0/img/a /divimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/434137219 height=1 width=1/ a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=’http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/434137219/’Source[engadget]/abr