Overshadowed BlackBerry Bold Is All Business

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- And now let's have a small-business ode to the Bold. With all the fancy-schmancy, touch-activated smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy, the Apple AAPL iPhone 4, the HTC EVO and the Motorola MOT DroidX clogging the mobile-river byway these days, it's easy to forget that for 25 million small businesses, the cellular weapon of choice is still BlackBerry, from Canadian smartphone giant Research in Motion RIMM, and specifically the Bold 9000 series And cell operators, such as Verizon VZ, AT&T T and T-Mobile, have been quietly selling upgrades to the data-entry-friendly keyboard, blazing fast email access and bulletproof security of this line of devices since it came online in 2008. To wit, earlier this year, Verizon released its latest update in the Bold line, the 9650 ($99 with a plan). And compared to 9000s of old, it packs bulked-up RAM, tweaked keyboard and a host of other upgrades. I've been giving the 9650 a small-business once-over for the past few weeks. To read the rest, head over to TheStreet.com