BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 - Review

In this review, we will talk about the BlackBerry Bold 9900.

The BlackBerry Bold 9900 has a solid and sleek build with simple to use multimedia functions for your use. It comes with a processor with the clock speed of 1.2 GHz makes the phone to perform quicker. The BlackBerry Bold 9900 is a sleek phone, measuring up to 115 mm in length, 66 mm in width and in terms of thickness, the phone measures to 10.5 mm. The phone is marked by attractiveness alongside being slim. The phone weighs only 130 g. For more information, just go through the review.

Now in the review, we will discuss some of the other features of the phone.

The BlackBerry Bold 9900 carries a 2.8’’ display screen, having a resolution of 640x480 pixels. The touchscreen display screen on the cellular is capacitive, this makes it very responsive. Device also features a TFT display screen, the display of the cellular is quite sharp and accurate. Reading through textual content is really an easy job to do on the cellular, whereas viewing images and WebPages seems to be good.

The navigation on BlackBerry Bold 9900 is fine enough. The device runs on a 1.2 GHz processor, because of which, tossing between apps and screens seemed to be very smooth. The overall performance of the cellular is very good; it is instant, responsive and fast. Multi-tasking on the cellular is also quite an easy and comfortable task. The phone has 768 MB RAM and 8 GB internal storage, which enables you to store large amount of data and several apps for you convinience.

Now in the review, we will take a look at the camera on the cellular.

BlackBerry Bold 9900 features a 5 MP camera with LED flash. User interface for camera is pretty decent. Auto-focus, touch-focus, face and smile detection are the key characteristics of its features. The camera is capable of recording HD videos with 720p @ 30 fps. The image quality of the phone is good. However, images turn out bit underexposed and colors are duller than we would’ve liked.

Now the review will discuss the other features of the phone.

The BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 is the usual solid and credible business handset. The BlackBerry Bold 9900 operates on BlackBerry OS 7.0, by which brings very few new features (NFC and HD video are well worth a mention though) and focus should be on the user experience instead. with a convenient QWERTY keyboard, the Bold Touch 9900 is great at its main job – texting. Some visual improvements would've been welcome, but getting the job done is what really matters here. The web browser on the BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 is one of the best we have seen lately. Despite the smallish display, the browser still does an excellent job and will serve you well. It is fast, responsive, supports multi-touch zooming, text selection, text reflow, mouse cursor, etc. The only thing missing is Flash support. The BlackBerry App World is the RIM application distribution solution. Quite well organized, it accepts payment by credit card or Paypal. Some you can get for free of course. The device can also be capable of integrating with social networking sites. Some other options that come with the phone contain Bluetooth, Wi-Fi. Dual-band Wi-Fi is another nice addition with an easily customizable Wi-Fi manager taking care of all the connections. Wi-Fi hotspot is also available.The device comes in support of wide range of music and video codec’s like MP3, AAC, WAV and MPEG-4.

Now we discuss some con's of the phone

BlackBerry Bold 9900 has fixed focus camera, no FM radio, non hot swappable memory card, no Flash support while surfing the net, no secondary camera to support video-call and above all BlackBerry Internet Service account is a must to enjoy all phone features.

To conclude off of this review, we’d suggest that BlackBerry Bold 9900 is a Smartphone that offers the decent features all around, the camera on the cellular is good, and so can be its display screen. The BlackBerry Bold 9900 is a good business Smartphone.

Specifications & Features of BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900

Display and user interface
Screen size: 2.8"
Type: TFT, capacitive touchscreen
Up to 16 M colors
Resolution: 640 x 480 pixels
QWERTY keyboard
Touch-sensitive controls
Optical trackpad
Proximity sensor for auto turn-off


Dimensions
Size: 115 mm x 66 mm x 10.5 mm
Weight (with battery): 130 g


Available colors
Black


Operating frequency / Network
2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network: HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
                       HSDPA 900 / 1700 / 2100


Sound
Alert types: Vibration; MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker: Yes
3.5mm jack: Yes


Memory
microSD memory card slot,  max. 16 GB
Internal memory: 8 GB Storage / 768 MB RAM


Data
GPRS: Yes
EDGE: Yes
3G: HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, dual-band
Bluetooth: Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
USB: Yes, microUSB v2.0


Camera
Primary: 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels
Features: auto-focus, geo-tagging, LED flash, touch-focus
Self-timer, face and smile detection, image stabilization
Effects: Grayscale, sepia, and negative
Video: Yes, 720p @ 30 fps
Secondary: No


Software platform
BlackBerry OS 7.0


CPU
1.2 GHz QC 8655 processor


Email and messaging
SMS(threaded view): Yes
MMS: Yes
Email: Yes
Push Mail: Yes
IM: Yes
RSS: Yes


Browsing and internet
HTML


Radio
No


Applications
NFC support
BlackBerry maps
Digital compass
Document viewer
MP4/WMV/H.263/H.264 player
MP3/eAAC+/WMA player
Organizer
Voice memo/dial
Predictive text input

GPS
Yes, with A-GPS support, BlackBerry Maps


Java
Yes, MIDP 2.1


Personalization
Ring tones: Mp3
Themes
Wallpapers
Screensavers
Ringtones
Pre-installed themes
Changeable color themes


Connectivity
Wi-Fi 
Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
High-Speed microUSB v2.0
3.5 mm Jack


Power management
Li-Ion 1230 mAh
Talk time (maximum): 2G Network Up to 6 hrs 30 mins / 3G Network Up to 5 hrs 50 mins
Standby time (maximum): 2G Network Up to 300 hrs / 3G Network Up to 300 hrs
Music Play: Up to 50 hrs


Personal Information Management (PIM)
Detailed contact information
Calendar
To-do List
Notes
Recorder
Calculator
Clock
Converter


Call management
Contacts: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall Supported
Logs of dialed, received and missed calls
Integrated hands free speakers
Call Waiting
Conference Call

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