AT&T & T-Mobile BlackBerry Bold 2 Official Announcement Pending

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Are you ready for this BlackBerry fans? A new RIM smartphone is getting ready to be officially announced. The Onyx aka the Bold 2 is going to be available this month from both AT&T and T-Mobile. On a side note, AT&T is also preparing to launch a white BlackBerry Bold this October, although it is just a plain “old” Bold!

Nothing is official just yet but, like always, release details have been leaked well ahead of their time. The BlackBerry 9700 Onyx, also known as the Bold 2 in some circles, is scheduled to arrive on October 21. And there are two carriers waiting for it, AT&T and T-Mobile. Pricing details however have not been revealed but we assume that both carriers will sell the device for the same pile of cash.

The Onyx is probably one of the best two smartphones RIM is going to sell by the end of the year, the other one being of course, the Storm 2 which is headed to Verizon Wireless. The Onyx will offer you quad-band GSM/EDGE/GPRS, UMTS/HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support, a 3.2 megapixel camera, a trackpad and the usual full QWERTY keyboard. Considering the success of the Bold should we assume that its slimmer follower will become at least as popular?

And speaking of the Bold, some troubling news came our way. It looks like AT&T is also planning to launch a new version of the Bold, a white one. There’s nothing wrong about this idea you’ll say but then I’ll tell you how AT&T plans to start selling the white Bold starting with October 18. That’s three days before announcing the Bold 2 and that’s what makes everything so strange. Does AT&T like shooting itself in the foot every now and then? Shouldn’t they try to sell the new Berry in the house instead of pitching the old Bold in new clothes to their subscribers? Yes, the white Bold does look good and it’s something else considering that RIM’s default phone color is black. So why not make things interesting and steal some T-Mobile customers away with a white Bold 2 instead? Or is the Bold 2 scheduled to arrive only days before the future Bold 3 gets unveiled?