On Monday, Research In Motion Ltd. is launching the new BlackBerry Bold 9000. As this is the company’s first major release in more than one year, it has to be good.

The device comes with twice the display resolution of the Curve model; it supports tri-band HSDPA and quad-band EDGE and it is equipped with a 624-MHz StrongARM processor (for the time being, the most powerful handheld device CPU out there), stereo Bluetooth, 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi and GPS. Of course it has a camera that can also record videos. It measures 4.5 by 2.6 by 0.55 inches and weighs 4.7 oz.

A way in which the new BlackBerry differs from the current trend is the fact that it doesn’t have a touch screen. According to Research In Motion founder and co-CEO, Mike Lazaridis, the device’s corporate customers prefer physical keyboards. There is however a chance that future models could feature such screens.

The company has big plans this year, as another Blackberry smartphone, code named "Meteor," is getting ready to hit the market sometime in August. While the device will be the first phone to use the 3G technology for AT&T, another 3G Blackberry was released for a different type of wireless technology for Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp., as, when comparing the current state of 3G networks, the two carriers are a bit ahead of AT&T.