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The Blackberry Bold 9700 for AT&T has still not been released. But from the pictures that have leaked out and the little information that we could gather from various sources, this is what the Blackberry Bold 9700 has in store for you. The first thing worth mentioning about the Blackberry Bold 9700 is its name. There has been much confusion regarding the model number and the name of this phone. The Blackberry Bold 9700 is also known as the Onyx or the Blackberry Bold 2. So don't get confused if you are looking for the Blackberry Bold 9700 and land up on a page that reviews the Blackberry Bold 2 or the Blackberry Onyx.
The Blackberry Bold 9700 is a delicious black phone with features that are likely to impress you like the other Blackberries. The phone is otherwise sleek apart from the leather covering at the back which makes it appear a little bulky. Although the leather covering may seem like an added weight to the phone, it actually proves to be very useful. It prevents your phone from getting all the ugly scratches from being kept on the table. It also enhances the grip on the phone making handling the Blackberry Bold 9700 a very simple job. The leather casing is also another trademark of its predecessor, the Blackberry Bold. The basic design of the Blackberry Bold 9700 will in fact, remain the same as that of the Blackberry Bold. There will a few changes however. The major one includes the screen resolution which will increase from the earlier 480 by 397000 pixels to 480 by 360 pixels. The size of the Blackberry Bold 9700 is almost the same as that of its predecessor.
The similarities between the Blackberry Bold 9700 and the Blackberry Bold go beyond just looks and the exterior. The features too, are quite similar. The striking differences are few. A major difference is that the trackball has bee replaced by the optical track pad in the Blackberry Bold 9700. In addition to that, the battery cover has been changed and is said to have bee replaced by one that is an improvement on the earlier one. The memory card in the Blackberry Bold was on the side which has been altered and the memory card is now at the behind the battery cover. A problem with the Blackberry Bold was that the mute and the lock buttons were at the bottom which proved to be major disability of the phone. This has been rectified and the buttons are at the top in the Blackberry Bold 9700. The battery life is rumored to have improved greatly and is now much better than it was in the Blackberry Bold. The Blackberry Bold 9700 also has a flash memory of 256 MB which is another change from the previous 197008 MB which was native.
Overall, the Blackberry Bold 9700 is a great improvement on the earlier model and is tentatively set to release in the winters of 2009. Till then keep your fingers crossed and be ready to grab the phone as soon as it hits the market.
The slim new BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an incredibly approachable smartphone that comes in two attractive colors from T-Mobile – black and frost. For people who like to be connected, it provides easy mobile access to email, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and popular social networking sites (including Facebook® and MySpace) and features a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable, accurate typing. It also features rich multimedia capabilities and access to music, games and other mobile apps for entertainment on the go.
The BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is a world phone, and is also Wi-Fi®-enabled to arm customers with fast Web browsing and Wi-Fi calling. T-Mobile customers can continue to get great mobile coverage and unlimited nationwide Wi-Fi calling with T-Mobile’s Unlimited HotSpot Calling service as well as unlimited nationwide calling to five people with T-Mobile myFaves® service.*
In addition to providing the industry’s leading mobile email and messaging solution, the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is designed to be efficient and convenient. It introduces an innovative touch-sensitive optical trackpad, which makes scrolling and selection smooth and easy for a great navigation experience. It is also the first BlackBerry smartphone to feature dedicated media keys, smoothly integrated along the top of the handset, giving customers an easy, convenient way to control their music and videos.
Key features of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone include:
Full-QWERTY keyboard and touch-sensitive optical trackpad for reliable, responsive typing and navigation
256MB Flash memory and a 512Mhz next generation processor for enhanced performance
Premium phone features including voice activated dialing, and Bluetooth (2.0) support for hands-free use with headsets, car kits, stereo headsets and other Bluetooth peripherals
2 MP digital camera with zoom and video recording
Advanced media player for music, pictures and videos, with dedicated media keys and a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, plus BlackBerry® Media Sync, which makes it easy to quickly sync music from iTunes® or Windows Media® Player with the smartphone**
Access to BlackBerry App Worldâ„¢, featuring a broad and growing catalog of third-party mobile applications developed specifically for BlackBerry smartphones. Categories include games, entertainment, social networking and sharing, news and weather, productivity and much more
BlackBerry® Internet Service support for access to up to 10 supported email accounts, including most popular ISP email accounts such as Yahoo!®, Windows Live™ Hotmail®, AOL® and Gmail™; and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server support, which provides advanced security and IT administration features for corporate deployments
Expandable memory via hot swappable microSD/SDHC memory card slot, supporting cards of up to 16 GB today and expected to support next generation 32GB cards when available; a 1GB card is included
Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) with support for T-Mobile Unlimited Hotspot Calling service
Quad-band world phone: EGDE/GPRS/GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
The new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone from T-Mobile will be available on August 5 at T-Mobile retail stores, Walmart Stores, select authorized dealers, and online at http://www.T-Mobile.com.
Someone truly gave the boring economics professor a hit of the bong with this new phone - the Blackberry Curve 8900. It's still got all the business capabilities of any other Blackberry, but something is different. This Blackberry is fun, it's stylish. It is, dare we say it: Sexy.
Unlike some of Blackberry's other newer offerings, such as the Storm, the Blackberry Curve 8900 is still true to the typical Blackberry design. Those who are used to the other phones (such as the Pearl) will have little trouble switching over. There’s no fancy touchscreen that you have to get used to. The classic Blackberry interface remains the same. It is easy to use, and while maybe not quite as cool to show off as the move-your-fingers-apart-and-zoom-in trick on the iPhone, it gets the job done just fine.
Upon first glance, one of the first things you'll notice about the Blackberry Curve 8900 is its size. This is one of the smallest Blackberries that have ever existed in the product line. It’s a very comfortable size. While the Pearl was maybe a little too small to comfortably use or much less get work done on, this balances a large screen and a full QWERTY keyboard with a slender design that slides right into your pocket.
Now, there is one large downfall that we need to point out to you right off the bat, for the sake of honesty. With all the fancy features it offers, the Blackberry Curve 8900 does not offer 3G. That’s right, the latest technological marvel from Blackberry is not capable of accessing the 3G networks. This cripples the Blackberry Curve 8900 right off of the bat.
Some of the advanced features that make a Blackberry what it is would be so much better if you could only access them on 3G. Wifi access is blinding fast, but when you leave the office and need to look something up, you will be slammed to a halt by the slow connection speed. It’s like getting out of a Formula 1 race car to have a kid drive you around in one of those wagons that are pulled by bicycles. Without 3G, you might as well mail a letter instead of send an email.
Okay, so it’s not THAT bad. But when all of the other competing phones offer 3G, it was a mistake not to include it. There is one upside though: 3G connections use a lot of battery power. By ditching 3G, the battery life of the Blackberry Curve 8900 is much better than that of many phones in its category.
One nice feature is the price. While the phone may cost a good bit (just like any smart phone) without a contract, this one just happens to be free when you enter a service agreement. That’s right: The phone is free with a new contract. Now try to beat that! The only way to get phone that cheap with a new contract is to rob the store. And that’s just not a good idea. You’ll get caught. They know who you are.
Unlike most Blackberries, Blackberry Curve 8900 has a mixed target audience. Not only does it appeal to the latte-sipping businessmen who want full office connectivity on their phone - this one also appeals to the younger crowd as well. Teenagers and twenty-somethings will be piling over this phone. With its features and trendy design, this is a popular one among people of all ages.
One feature that is very un-Blackberry in nature is the camera. Boasting 3.2 megapixlels, this one is capable of high resolution snapshots that compare to many pocket sized digital cameras. This one even has a flash. The LED isn’t very bright, but at least it helps a little bit in darker situations.
Blackberry Curve 8900 is also savvy in the area of multimedia. You’ll find a headphone jack on the phone, and it has a built-in jukebox that lets you rock out to your favorite MP3s. Even more, you can play videos - even the cool formats like Xvid and DivX.
Overall, the Blackberry Curve 8900 is a seriously cool phone for the seriously cool person. The features it has are perfect for office hours or party hours, and it has enough gadgets to keep anyone entertained. The camera is nice for a Blackberry, though compared to some of the other phones with high-resolution cameras, it maybe isn’t quite as clear. The flash is better than nothing, but for many shots, is pretty worthless. None of this is as bad as the lack of 3G, though. If these aspects of the phone don’t bother you, then you should seriously consider picking up a Blackberry Curve 8900 as your next phone.
One of the most common apprehensions about business phones is the fact that they are just too monotonous. Most business phones are purely meant for work, minus the pleasure and this is something that really sucks the fun out of the whole process of owning a high end phone. The new Blackberry Tour, however, endeavors to change all of it- with solid business phone basics and a whole lot of full filled features, this phone strives to combine work and pleasure. RIM has done an exceptional job in creating some out of the box business features.
Blackberry Tour includes features that allow you to connect to friends via various social networks- on the go. Besides, the phone has a great multimedia interface, exceptional sound quality and one of the best audio/video players to have been featured on a smartphone- ever!
This Blackberry boasts one of the best screens to have been featured in the Blackberry series and is great for social networking/multimedia apps. On the flipside, the Blackberry Tour does have some cons to it as well- The keyboard is average, the call quality isn’t great and the web browser could have been better. On the whole, the tech specs of the Blackberry Tour are pretty upright and all through the remainder of this write up, we look at some of the best features to have been showcased in the new Blackberry Tour.
Calling and general features:
We now take a closer look at some of the most basic features that are expected out of a high-end smartphone. The calling features of this baby are amongst the best in this segment. The call quality needs a bit of revamping on the part of RIM, but this Blackberry is jam-packed with off-the-hook calling features. The battery life is pretty good and Blackberry boasts of a 5 hour talk-time with a fully recharged battery. This might sound low for a smartphone, but with all the multimedia features in place, 3G technologies on the anvil and a great web browser, this kind of battery life is acceptable.
The Tour has some exceptional features for handling the address book and synchronizing it with corporate accounts (if your service provider makes use of the BES or Blackberry Enterprise Server). You can also get en-sync with your calendar and contacts using the inbuilt Outlook, which comes as a standard desktop application with the Blackberry Tour. You can, in fact, get your hands on your friend’s contact details using their FB profiles. The Blackberry Tour makes it as easy as counting “123�! If your friends do not have their contact numbers listed on their FB accounts, your Blackberry is capable of sending them messages- soliciting their contact info. Great, isn’t it?
Design and our verdict:
One area where the Blackberry Tour stands out from the rest of the crowd is its design- it looks chic and inviting for a smartphone. With a glossy finish, a good grip and a funky texture, the Blackberry Tour aims to lend an all new dimension to this mundane and perceptibly boring segment. The 3.2 Mega Pixels camera that comes with the phone makes it a winner. The camera is capable of taking marvelous pictures. In fact, the exceptional picture quality of Blackberry Tour’s camera makes it a much more fun-filled smartphone- something that’s been the USP of this product right from the days it was launched.
All in all, the Blackberry Tour is a great smartphone and a must have for those looking to digress from the stereotypical norms of the business world. The Blackberry Tour is a rebel in a nutshell- a great screen, good social networking tools and the standard Blackberry business tools make it a clear cut winner; considering the $200 price tag it is being marketed at!!!
The Blackberry Storm 2 is a vast improvement on its predecessor, the Blackberry Storm. There are many minor changes that have been made in this phone which add up to produce cumulative result that is much better than the Blackberry Storm. This goes to show that little changes can make a major difference. The Blackberry Storm 2 is what a carefully designed Blackberry Storm should have been. Nonetheless, with the Blackberry Storm 2 coming in the market pretty soon most of you will forget the flaws that the Blackberry Storm had. The Blackberry Storm 2 has a revamped exterior that makes the phone look a lot less bulky and gives it a smooth and uninterrupted feel. The glossy black exterior makes it suitable for corporate as well as personal use. The Blackberry Storm 2 is rumored to also have been named as the Odin and the model number is now confirmed to be 9550.
The minor changes that have been made in the Blackberry Storm 2 that make a major difference are quite a few. However the phone’s size still remains the same at dimensions of 112 x 62 x 14mm. One major change that we can visually detect in the Blackberry Storm 2 is the screen. The normal screen has been replaced with a touch screen and the physical buttons have also been done away with and in their place you have the smart, easy to use virtual buttons. The buttons on the side that were too elevated and were a constant source of irritation in the Blackberry Storm has now been replaced by smoother buttons that are more comfortable to feel. Another great detail that has been looked into and dealt with very well is the joints. They are now as smooth as never before and are absolutely glorious to touch. The best part is you can’t even feel that they are there! This also enhances the grip on the phone and makes it a pleasure to hold rather than an added responsibility.
The buttons on the touch screen have been replaced to bring in more user-friendly realistic buttons that display whatever you choose on the phone’s screen. Although you still have to press the button twice to actually activate the program, this is a feature that was intentionally retained. This is a feature of the SurePress technology which although did not receive very good reviews with the last Blackberry is still incorporated in this one. This is because according to the manufacturers this technique has more pros to its name than cons. The size and the resolution of the screen, however, still remain the same as in the Blackberry Storm. The size is 3.25 inches with a resolution of 480 by 320 pixels. The screen is also rumored to not depress when the phone is either locked or is switched off.
Overall, the Blackberry Storm 2 is a major improvement on the Blackberry Storm due to the minor changes that have been incorporated in to it by the manufacturers. The phone is said to release in around the second week of November, tentatively o the 11th.
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