Blackberry Bold Touch 9900 Vs Nokia X7

This is a technical comparison between two new smartphones: Nokia X7 and Blackberry Bold Touch 9900, that have different operating systems, so we’ll put that aside. First of all we will compare the size and weight. Nokia measures 119.7 x 62.8 x 11.9 mm and weights 146 g, while Blackberry has 115 x 66 x 10.5 mm and 130 g, resulting that Nokia is slightly bigger then it’s opponent. But being bigger means, in this case, a bigger display. Thus Nokia has a 4 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors with 360 x 640 pixels, compared to Blackberry, which has a 2.8 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen and 640 x 480 pixels. It is strange...

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New Blackberry Bold 9900

The BlackBerry Bold 9900 happens to be something of a shock. You see, for a long time, BlackBerry has, in a sense, been playing catch up. Thats by no means a dig at RIM, it’s pretty much regarded as royalty in push email and business circles. Nevertheless it continues to be rare for RIM to be at the forefront. Cameras, online browsing, HTML emails were all sadly featured on RIM’s mobiles years after they had become the norm on most devices. Just take a look at some recent examples of good phones that did not really break the boundaries like the Bold 9780 and 9700. However the Blackberry Bold 9000 this time offers some leading tech, and in a...

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New BlackBerry Torch 9800

The BlackBerry Torch has been in the office for a couple of weeks now and we’ve had a long time to think about some of the intricacies of using this device for both business and pleasure. The Torch is the first BlackBerry to feature BlackBerry 6, a touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard and RIM employees have been quoted saying it’s the best BlackBerry to date. Touchscreen devices are likely a sensitive issue with RIM as the company has had a lot of negative press over the BlackBerry Storm. The Torch has a touchscreen that has dropped the infamous SurePress technology and there is a lot of buzz about this device given the heated consumer smartphone...

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