Phone Arena's first hands-on impressions of the business centric RIM blackberry Bold 9700. In the short time we were able to check out this device, the Bold 9700 took everything we loved about the original and miniaturized it. This is by far the sleekest, lightest, and most beautiful blackberry devices we've seen to hit the market. We can say that the original Bold was one of the larger handsets we've seen from RIM, but they took everything back to the board and designed something that was extremely compact .