Blackberry has announced Today their latest premium smartphone. The new Bold 9900 version has the usual RIM design for QWERTY keyboard phones, but is the thinnest and most powerful Blackberry so far and the screen is a touch one - a first for the Bold line. On the sides has a stainless steel frame which works great with the high-gloss glass-wave backplate. The main technical specifications are below:
-- DISPLAY: 2.8 inches TFT capacitive touch 640 x 480 pixels screen, 287 dpi resolution with Liquid Graphics.
-- CPU: 1.2 GHz.
-- MEMORY: 768 MB RAM.
-- STORAGE: 8GB for internal, microSD card slot up to 32GB.
-- CAMERA: Primary - 5MP led flash camera, HD video recording up to 720p.
-- CONNECTIVITY: 3G, HSDPA, HSUPA, (CDMA, EV-DO for 9930 version) Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, micro-USB port, 3.5 mm headphone jack, A-GPS, NFC.
-- SENSORS: Accelerometer, Proximity, Digital Compass.
-- BATTERY: Li-Po 1230 mAh
-- OS: Blackberry OS 7, HTML 5.
-- APPLICATIONS: BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.3, Docs To Go, BlackBerry Maps, Wikitude, social apps.
I always thought that BlackBerry phones should be the first or among first brands who should have included the NFC technology. RIM phones are known mainly as business and are not exactly multimedia devices or build for common users. Their design has been sober, made for corporate, enterprise medium. I am glad that they have included the NFC chip because I believe a consultant or manager needs to exchange business cards and other information (like documents) quickly with the customers or peers apart from answering emails right away.
The Bold 9900/9930 comes with the new BlackBerry 7 system which has improved web browsing, voice search and the ability to manage personal content separately than the business information. So this device is mainly for business but you can go ahead and check your Twitter or Facebook accounts if you feel like, not to mention that has augmented reality capabilities.
As this is a touch and type QWERTY smartphone as see it as a main competitor for the Nokia`s recently announced business phone - the E6. The last BlackBerry I had my hands on was a 8900 I believe and I remember I needed to configure a corporate email account for a friend. I can not even tell you how many passwords and codes I had to enter so the email messages can appear. I hope RIM has improved this with their new Enterprise Server application and with the new OS 7 version.
