That first crack ALWAYS hurts the most. It almost feels like dropping your new born right on his head. You feel horribly and sickly and the angst and pain doesn’t go away as easily as kissing a booboo. It looks like our good friend BGR has dropped and cracked his BlackBerry Bold for the first (and hopefully last) time.

Taking the plunge, he doesn’t even hesitate to inform the world of his suffering. To no one’s surprise, the unprotected Bold won’t stand up too well to pavement, gravel, or tile, whathaveyou, when dropped from as little as two feet — maybe this is where a real metal bezel would come in handy, right RIM?

BGR doesn’t go into whether or not any essential functions of the Bold were rendered useless but I’d take him up on his advice if I were you.

Buy a condom skin for the Bold. As big and ugly as it makes the device, you’ll appreciate it in the end.

Okay. So, .. not really. Although it’s always nice to see some more color choices on T-Mobile, it’s really not all that exciting at all; considering the scattered releases of the Bold popping up in unexpected places in the past couple of days. I am getting pretty tired of my Titanium Curve.

The phone new colorway will be available starting tomorrow, August 4, at all T-Mobile retail stores, and over the phone, for $149.99 with a 2-year agreement. I’m not really sure what OS it will be running, but I’m betting all my nickels and dimes it’s going to be v4.2.2 even though Boy Genius’ leaked doc says any BlackBerry that launches before September will run 4.5 OOB.

Been lost for a while?

Spec savvy:

• GSM, GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi
• Quad-band world phone 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• 2.5” display, 320×240 pixels, QVGA display with more than 65,000 colors
• 3.5 mm headset jack
• Dimensions: 4.2 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches; 3.9 ounces
• microSD slot supporting up to 4 GB of optional removable memory
• 2 megapixel camera
• T-Mobile myFaves-enabled
• Stereo Bluetooth® capability

A can of Krylon and Gas Masks after the break.

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According to the lord of everything wireless, Boy Genius, starting June 28th, RIM plans to perform maintenance on their BIS servers. Not very routine this time, but to upgrade to the new BIS v2.5.

BlackBerry users have been long anticipating HTML Email support for their smart phones that it seemed like it would never arrive. This upgrade could mean long awaited HTML email support for BlackBerry devices. RIM is planning on upgrading their U.S. BIS system later this month, which will include a lunch-menu full of updates awaiting their new line of 9000 series BlackBerries.

Aside from the over-exhausted HTML support I’ve been rambling about, the update should include enhancements for OTA (Over-the-Air) upgrades, calendar improvements and some other stuff.

Your device, of course, will have to support all these great new features, but since we’ll all be using the Bold by this time next month, we don’t have much to worry about.

Boy Genius has gotten tips on a solid release date from Canadian giant wireless carrier, Rogers. The Bold is apparently being slated for release on Rogers Wireless as soon as June 25th—about a month (give or take a few weeks) ahead of the July or August release date we’ve been hearing for the State’s exlusive carrier AT&T. We hope that Mr. Genius is wrong in this case; either that, or AT&T has a trick up its sleeve and is actually dropping it like it’s hot on Monday, seeing as how we hate it when those damn Beaver Beaters put the one up on anything.

BGR assures us that it’s nothing RIM is doing that’s holding up the launch here in the states.

Get on it AT&T.

Just like its deafeningly arrogant code name, Bold, the newly announced BlackBerry 9000 series is just that; its Bold as hell, regardless of what you conformist hippies think.

It looks as if AT&T has got the exclusive on this one, again.

More to come soon. Just wait until I get my grubby palms on one of these things. I’m pretentious.