Well, Nokia better get their corporate butts in gear then. My close friend who is a zone manager for several key AT&T retail agent locations in the St. Louis zone called me last week to tell me that a feed had just come down from AT&T corporate that said the release for the BlackBerry 9000 Bold would be the latter part of July.
Nokia would have to release the phone this month to get it established as a real alternative to the Bold...
I am a BlackBerry fan, and very happy with the product. I imagine that with the Bold having a faster processor, added memory, larger & clearer screen, 3G, WiFi and GPS onboard...many people are going to jump at the BB...even some of those who are sick of waiting for this phone, that is clearly aimed at being a BlackBerry-beater moreso than a phone that will steal any business from Apple and the new Gen-2 iPhone.
It will be the release date on these two devices that determine which one will be my next phone, pure and simple.