The BlackBerry® Bold™ smartphone embodies elegant design – without sacrificing the features or functionality you expect from a premium smartphone.

It’s more elegant than models past, with curvier edges and a silver trim that complements the black casing. If you turn it over, you’ll also notice that the back has a leatherette texture. No more slick plastic and RIM will sell replaceable backplates in different colors, including blue, gray, and red, if you want to spruce up your phone a bit.

Garmin International Inc announced its entrance into the mobile phone market with its new iPhone-like smartphone, the nüvifone.The full-fledged GSM HSDPA smartphone is built on its own operating system with GPS navigation at its core.

It is an all-in-one, sleek and slim, touchscreen device that combines a premium phone, mobile web-browser, and cutting-edge personal navigator. When powered on, the 3.5-inch touchscreen display reveals three primary icons — “Call,” “Search,” and “View Map” which allow the user to effortlessly master the nüvifone’s functions.

It’s time to play the “What Your Phone Says About You” game one more time. Last year, with the help of some research, I put together a list of characteristics that describe the type of person who would typically carry a certain fashion phone, along with the celebrities who have them just for fun. For example, those who had a RAZR were typically seen as fashion conscious, individualistic, and fun seekers. Celebrities like Paris Hilton, Rachael Bilson, and Micha Barton were all sporting one at the time, which seemed to reinforce the stereotype.

Recently, I came across a similar report on MSNBC, except this one focused on the latest smartphones a little bit more. The ones mentioned here, and probably the most popular, were the Blackberry, the Treo, Sidekick and the iPhone. MSNBC contacted representatives from each company and other experts to give their opinion on the type of user they think each product attracts, and here’s what they had to say:

Blackberry

Who uses it: A favorite among financial professionals, event planners, government and law enforcement, salespeople and journalists, but newer models are much more appealing to a wider spectrum of people, including soccer moms, says Mark Guibert, RIM’s vice president of corporate marketing.

What it says about you: The article doesn’t really say, but words like addiction, withdrawl, and constantly connected were thrown around, which lead us to believe Blackberry users are people who like to be in constant contact with their office. Guibert adds that, “BlackBerry users tend to quickly become addicts, and a range of named afflictions have followed, from ‘BlackBerry thumb’ (a repetitive stress problem) to ‘phantom BlackBerry syndrome,’ ” when a user isn’t carrying the device, but feels the hip buzz anyway.”