Latest BlackBerry Bold Earns Lackluster Reviews

BlackBerry Bold 9900, 9930 Doesn't Blow Reviewers Away

Research In Move's modish BlackBerry Bold is wispy, beautiful, overpriced, and still no match for its iPhone and Android rivals, leastways according to the consensus among reviewers. The gimmick is available in two models: the 9900, for GSM/UMTS networks; and the 9930, with support for CDMA networks, such as Verizon's, and GSM/UMTS.

The hybrid touchscreen device rocks the famous BlackBerry QWRTY keyboard, gone a few inches around the waist and can as wel disk HD video, but these specs failed to impress the first people to play with the parvenu phone.

Also the fact it is running an OS that is already on its way out, the new Audacious has same big caveat: it's monetary value tag. IT's Sir Thomas More pricy than Apple's iPhone and top-of-the-line Android devices, and if you want to find unmatched happening T-Mobile's 4G network, you should be prepared to casing out $350 with a two-year contract — $100 more than a 32GB iPhone. Just don't but take my word for it, Here's what reviewers had to say:

PCWorld's Ginny Mies is impressed with the keyboard, design and construction of the new Bold, and "new features in OS 7, like NFC and HD video capture, are a huge plus," but same "the Bold doesn't have enough to sway existing Android and iPhone users." Mies reviewed the Verizon version of the new Forward, and at $250 with a biennial contract from Verizon, she thinks "its price is path overly high, especially for a 3G earphone."

"Turn it on and the vivid, glaring screen looks as good as any on the securities industry, iPhone included, and the touchscreen is responsive," writes The Wire's Matt Warman. Helium likes the improvements in BlackBerry OS 7, merely "in the age of Windows Ring, iOS and Android is simply not good enough." In comparison to sr. models, "the Bold's simply a adorable, middling enhanced phone. From a couple of years ago," Warman wraps up.

SlashGear's Vincent Nguyen also believes "RIM is hush up left hand playing catch-up." Superficial at the have list of the 9900 Unfearing he reviewed, Nguyen says "it's hard to pick out any point which could convincingly persuade an iPhone or Android twist user to jump across." The worst break u, he says, "the situation is only going to get more difficult when the fifth-gen iPhone arrives."

"RIM's BlackBerry Unfearing 9900 is the company's best Blackberry bush ever so," concludes Jonathan S. Geller for BoyGeniusReport. But it's not all great news for Lip from Geller: "unfortunately, it's calm down a BlackBerry, and outside of the core areas where a BlackBerry silence offers a competitive advantage like electronic mail, for instance, I don't see a reason to pick this smartphone all over an iPhone 4 or one of the latest Mechanical man handsets wish the Samsung Galaxy S II Beaver State Google's Nexus S."

Reviewing for The Verge, Joshua Topolsky gave the Bold 9930 top marks for industrialised intention and the physical keyboard, but thinks "this is a die-hards-only telephone, one of the last of its breed, meant for a very specific customer. For everyone else: until Flange toilet fork over a truly modern have and bring developers to the table, I suggest you maintain looking for."

Engadget's Tim Stevens points out the Bold 9930 is just "the beginning of a transition — the last hurrah for an Atomic number 76 that isn't a good deal longer for this world. Or mayhap that's just us existence optimistic." If you're not a BlackBerry rock-ribbed, then He recommends you "wait for the next release of Blackberry bush OS, which hopefully will bring something truly different to the table."

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