Blackberry Bold Touch 9900

Blackberry have certainly done it again with the announcement of the Blackberry Bold 9900. It is arguably the slickest and most thin Blackberry phone that RIM has ever developed. The Blackberry 9900 features and applications are on another level above its competitors because of the operating system that it is using. Blackberry has installed operating system 7 on the phone that brings you the ultimate performance you would expect from a new Blackberry Bold. With the Blackberry Bold 9900 you get an operating system that is powerful, has super-fast browsing, voice enabled searches plus a lot of additional productive and personal applications. You can also add personal life content and work life content separately thus maximizing the use of the phone. If you get a chance of owning this phone, chances are that it will become part of your everyday life and you might not be able to function without it.

Thin, Sleek, Iconic Design
Distinguished by an iconic design and the industry's best keyboard, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 features the premium materials and finishes that characterize the BlackBerry Bold 9900. The Blackberry 9900 has a lustrous exterior with a brushed stainless steel frame and a high-gloss glass-weave backplate. This is thinnest BlackBerry smartphones yet, at only 10.5mm. The quality materials and optimized design of the new BlackBerry Bold 9900 is instantly evident when held in the hand.

 

Performance-Driven
These BlackBerry Bold smartphone is built on a new performance-driven platform featuring a 1.2 GHz processor, Liquid Graphics™ touch screen, and support for high speed HSPA+ wide area wireless networks.

 

The Liquid Graphics touch screen, a key new feature powered by BlackBerry 7, delivers fast, smooth performance for highly responsive touch-based navigation, web browsing, pictures, video and graphics intensive games*. Offering up to 60 frames-per-second performance with instant UI action/response, Liquid Graphics gives customers a visually rich and immersive experience that's responsive to the touch. In addition, the smartphones feature brilliant displays with an eye-popping 287 dpi to deliver crisp, stunning visuals.

 

The new platform also provides support for 4G networks; the 9900 supports HSPA+ connectivity.

 

NFC
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone includes built-in support for Near Field Communications which is a new technology that will enable many rich and exciting experiences. Through NFC, users will be able to, for example, pair the BlackBerry Bold 9900 to an accessory or read information such as a web link from smart tags by simply tapping their BlackBerry Bold to an NFC tag (eg. Smart Poster).

 

Augmented Reality
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone features a built-in compass (magnetometer) to support location-based services and augmented reality. APIs will allow third party developers to take advantage of the new functionality within their applications. The new smartphones will also include Wikitude, the leader in mobile augmented reality, which overlays contextual information on what the user sees through the smartphone's camera viewfinder.

 

HD Video
The new BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone support up to 720p HD video recording and playback. Users can easily share their videos directly from the smartphone or sync videos, as well as music and photos, to their computer using Media Sync in the BlackBerry Desktop Software.

 

BlackBerry 7
The BlackBerry OS 7 is designed to power the new performance-driven BlackBerry Bold platform. It provides an easier and faster user experience with improved browsing, voice-activated searches, the ability to manage personal content separately from corporate content, as well as additional personal and productivity apps out of the box.

 

 

The BlackBerry Browser has been significantly enhanced in BlackBerry 7. In addition to the general performance gains of Liquid Graphics, which helps deliver faster rendering and seamless panning and zooming, the BlackBerry 7 browser includes a new JIT (just in time) JavaScript compiler to improve the load time speed of web pages. The new browser also includes support for additional HTML5 elements, such as HTML5 Video.

 

Building upon the Universal Search feature introduced in BlackBerry 6, BlackBerry 7 expands the capability to include voice-activated search. This new capability makes it even easier and more convenient to search for content on the smartphone or web.

 

BlackBerry 7 also integrates BlackBerry Balance™, which separates personal content from corporate content on the smartphone, giving users the freedom and flexibility to use the handset for personal email, FacebookÂ, TwitterÂ, multimedia, games and other apps while satisfying the very real need for corporate data to be highly secure and manageable. BlackBerry Balance works in conjunction with BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.3, which provides a number of unique IT policy controls such as wiping only corporate data from the handset or blocking work related content and apps from being copied or forwarded to personal contacts.

 

With BlackBerry 7 on the BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone, users will also get the full version of Docs To Go with all "premium" features enabled out-of-the-box so that users can easily work with Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly on the smartphone. Docs To Go also includes a native PDF viewer.

 

Availability
The new BlackBerry Bold 9900 is available immediately from CaCell.

 

BlackBerry Bold 9900 Specifications

• 115 x 66 x 10.5 mm, approximately 130 g
• 2.8" capacitive touch screen display – VGA (640x480), 287 dpi resolution
• Ultra-easy QWERTY keyboard, optical trackpad
• 1.2 GHz Processor, 768 MB RAM
• 8 GB on-board memory, plus microSD slot supporting up to 32 GB cards
• NFC technology
• 5.0 MP camera, supports 720p HD video recording
• Orientation Sensor (Accelerometer), Digital Compass (Magnetometer), Proximity Sensor
• Built-in GPS / aGPS
• Dual-Band Wi-Fi - 802.11 b/g/n at 2.4 GHz and 802.11 a/n at 5 GHz
• Bluetooth 2.1+EDR support
• Wireless Network support: 9900: Tri-Band HSPA+, Quad-Band GSM/EDGE
• 1230 mAh removable, rechargeable battery
• BlackBerry 7 OS

* Features OpenGL 2.0 support for developers.

 

The Advantages in a nutshell

The Blackberry bold 9900 has a lot of advantages that would prove very enjoyable for the user i.e. it is fitted with A-GPS support to help you get directions while travelling. It has a wide variety of games that you can play on the phone when you are bored or have been kept waiting. The phone even goes a step further by enabling you to download games that you might like or prefer. The Blackberry bold 9900 also has a standard Li-Ion 1230 mAh battery. This mobile devise guarantees you maximum pleasure and efficiency with little or no disappointments at all. The Blackberry line of mobile phones from RIM have gained the reputation of being classy and prestigious phones and on top of that, if you are a gadgets and technology fanatic or you are simply looking for a devise that would make your official business in and out of the office easier, then you can never go wrong with the Blackberry bold 9900.