New BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 Now Available at Digicel

Digicel Launches New Touch-Screen BlackBerry Bold Model in Cayman

George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands – October 27, 2011:   Digicel has launched the new BlackBerry® Bold™ Touch 9900 smartphone featuring the latest BlackBerry 7 OS software across it retail chain in the Cayman Islands.

CEO of Digicel Cayman, Victor Corcoran said “Digicel is pleased to introduce the powerful BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone packed with easy to use functionality and brilliant display features.  When combined with Digicel 4G Mobile technology, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 offers tech-savvy customers a stunning Work and Play mobile device.”

Receiving positive reviews internationally, the iconic BlackBerry® Bold™ Touch 9900 makes it debut as the first dual-input device in the family of Bold smartphones featuring user-friendly QWERTY keypad and a brilliant touch screen display.  The BlackBerry® Bold™ Touch 9900 is the thinnest BlackBerry smartphone to date at only 115 x 66 x 10.5 mm and weighing-in at just 130g.  The smartphone is built for handling large files, boasting 8GB storage and 768 MB RAM memory. Joining Digicel’s growing list of 4G smartphones, the smartphone offers approximately 5 hours and 50 minutes (3G) in talk time.

The new BlackBerry® Bold™ Touch 9900 is also the first BlackBerry smartphone to include built-in ‘Tap and Go’ support for NFC (Near Field Communications) which is a new technology that enables payment transactions, data transmission and wireless connections between two NFC devices. This feature opens the doors for future possibilities in the Cayman Islands to make bill payments by smartphones.   

The combined benefits of the union between the BlackBerry 7 OS software and Digicel 4G Mobile network are endless, delivering Liquid Graphics™ technology with visually stunning graphical displays, lightning-bolt browsing capabilities, outstanding multimedia functions and a voice-activated search engine for emails and other saved files.  BlackBerry 7 introduces browsing speeds that are up to 40% faster than BlackBerry® 6 smartphones and up to 100% faster than BlackBerry® 5 based smartphones*.  The BlackBerry® Bold™ Touch 9900 is available at $659 prepaid and $609 postpaid at Digicel dealer stores.

For more information, dial Customer Care Centre at 100 from Digicel mobiles or +1 345 623 3444 from landlines or other networks.  Alternatively, visit Digicel Cayman website at www.digicelcayman.com.