BlackBerry Bold comes to South Korea at long last
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Jun 30th 2009 11:57PM
posted Jun 30th 2009 11:57PM
It's taken a little longer than they'd hoped, but RIM and SK Telecom will finally begin offering a localized version of the venerable BlackBerry Bold to South Korean customers this week. The move follows last year's scrapping of policies that all but banned foreign handsets from being offered by local carriers, which could theoretically be a boon to manufacturers in one of the world's most advanced mobile markets -- assuming anyone's able to crash through the stranglehold that local favorites Samsung, LG, and Pantech have. It's unclear how big of a deal a device with an English QWERTY keyboard could really be in Seoul, but hey, options are always a good thing, right?
it costs about $400 with 2-year contract and $600 w/o contract which I think is a lot for a phone that's been out for a year. Still, BIS addon is 14000 KRW which is only about $12 USD.
They won't sell many. That's for sure.