Mark your Calendar, the BlackBerry Bold will be available from at&t exclusively on the 4th of November. The phone will retail for $299.99 with a two year contract. The phone will be available online and at at&t owned stones along with some major retail stores on the 4th.

“The BlackBerry Bold is the best BlackBerry smartphone ever, backed by the nation’s fastest 3G network and the hands-down best international coverage of any carrier,” said Ralph de la Vega, president and chief executive officer of AT&T Mobility. “The BlackBerry Bold is the complete package, providing customers with an absolutely outstanding mobile experience whether doing e-mail, browsing the Web, viewing streaming video or simply making a phone call. And it is being introduced in the U.S. only from AT&T.”

Mike Lazaridis, president and co-CEO at Research In Motion, said: “The development of the BlackBerry Bold smartphone was an ambitious undertaking, and we focused intensely on the things that are most important to mobile customers when developing this best-in-class smartphone for HSDPA networks around the world. The BlackBerry Bold exudes quality in everything from its stunning display sharpness and incredible keyboard to its premium phone performance and sophisticated software applications. It provides an extraordinary mobile communications and multimedia experience, and we are very proud to introduce this breakthrough smartphone in the United States together with AT&T.”

The Blackberry Bold features a half-vga 65,000-color display which some have described as Bold and Beautiful. The Bold will be quad-band, offer wi-fi (a/b/g), bluetooth 2.0 and built in GPS. The device will also be powered by a 624MHz Intel PXA270, previous blackberry devices had processors at half that speed, it also will come with 128 MB of flash memory and a Gig of on board memory which is expandable with microSD/SDHC memory cards.

Today Columbus day, Research in Motion the makers of the Blackberry and Tmobile announced that the Blackberry Pearl Flip Phone, the first ever Blackberry Flip phone will be available in the us from T-Mobile. The Blakberry Pearl Flip Phone, has all the features you would find in a traditional Blackberry, but in the popular Flip phone design.

“The flip phone remains the vastly dominant and preferred design for mobile phones in the United States,” said Leslie Grandy, vice president of product development, T-Mobile USA. “Being the first company in the U.S. to offer the unique BlackBerry experience on a flip phone is a huge benefit for T-Mobile customers.”

The Blackberry Pearl Flip Phone will have built in wi-fi capabilities, which will allow users to use the T-Mobile@home service which gives them unlimited Wi-Fi calling..

The phone is available now at T-Mobile.com and T-Mobile Stores.

Key features of the BlackBerry Pearl Flip from T-Mobile include the following**:

First BlackBerry smartphone to offer popular flip design
Wi-Fi-enabled (802.11 b/g) supporting Wi-Fi calling and fast Web browsing
Support for Unlimited HotSpot Calling, offering unlimited nationwide calling over accessible Wi-Fi networks
T-Mobile’s myFavesSM support to stay in touch with those who matter most, with quick, one-click access for instant messaging, e-mailing, texting or calling to your Fave 5SM from the Home Screen
Enhanced SureType® keyboard to support text messaging, picture messaging, instant messaging (six popular clients), personal e-mail (access up to 10 supported e-mail accounts), and corporate e-mail
2.0 megapixel camera with digital zoom, built-in flash and video recording (requires microSD card)
Advanced media player for pictures, music and video with full-screen video playback
Stereo Bluetooth® support (A2DP/AVRCP) and 3.5mm stereo headset jack
Media management software included on the BlackBerry Tools CD, which allows transfer of music files including sync of desktop iTunes music files***
Enhanced HTML browser for high-performance browsing with a more desktop-style depiction
Internal QVGA 2.4-inch diagonal screen, 320 x 240 pixels and supporting 65K colors
128 MB of flash memory, 256 MB microSD card included, and support for up to a 16 GB microSD/SDHC card
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE/Wi-Fi network including support for international roaming
Dimensions: 3.9” x 1.96” x 0.68”
Weight: 3.6 oz

at&t today announced it will carry the Blackberry Bold also known as the Blackberry 9000 Exclusively in the US, and will be the only US Carrier to offer a 3G international capable Blackberry device.

The Blackberry Bold features a half-vga 65,000-color display which some have described as Bold and Beautiful. The Bold will be quad-band, offer wi-fi (a/b/g), bluetooth 2.0 and built in GPS. The device will also be powered by a 624MHz Intel PXA270, previous blackberry devices had processors at half that speed, it also will come with 128 MB of flash memory and a Gig of on board memory which is expandable with microSD/SDHC memory cards.

at&t has not announced a release date for the device but has said it will be available later this year.

For a at&t branded image of the phone click here.

Research in Motion (RIM) has notified its customers of a major outage on the entire North American Continent. The outage started around noon eastern time and continues as of 7:40 PM EST.

RIM has not said when they expect the service to be back up but if previous outages are an indicator the service may be down for a day or two.

Sprint and AT&T told CNN that the outage started around 3:30 for them, however I have friends with Black Berrys and I was told by them that their service had been down since noon.