Earlier this month in a post over at Inside BlackBerry Mr. Mike Lazaridis, Co-CEO of Research In Motion, was noted to comment about the upcoming availability of BlackBerry 6 for several current 5.0 devices, including the Pearl 3G, Bold 9650 and Bold 9700. The news of RIM’s newest operating system finding it’s way to these devices was widely embraced by current BlackBerry users, especially those who have only recently picked up one of these phones and did not wish to be left holding a new device with a soon to be outdated OS. Since this announcement there has been some debate through-out the community over how well this new operating system will function on devices with only 256 MB of on board memory (Pearl 3G, Bold 9700) as BlackBerry 6 itself is reported to take up around 190 MB of space on these non touchscreen devices. To help give us all a better idea of what type of functionality we can expect to see when we finally get to upgrade our Beloved Bold’s to OS 6, Boy Genius Report has been good enough to share a video walk-through of OS 6, albeit a beta version, running on a Bold 9700. As you can see in the video above, all of the new features of OS 6 are intact, WebKit browser, universal search, GPS photo tagging, ect. and BGR reports a quick boot time of around one minute as well as a better overall BlackBerry 6 experience when compared to BB 6 on the 9800 Torch. This looks to be very good news for many Bold users out there and I expect to see similar results for the Pearl 3G. With any luck we should start to see BlackBerry 6 officially roll out for these current devices within the next two months, of course we will keep you updated with information and downloads as they become available.

Video Courtesy of BGR.