Along with the top products of other manufacturers, this year RIM also introduced the company's most advanced smartphone - BlackBerry Bold 9900.
Property powerful configuration, the touch screen high resolution, the new operating system with slim and beautiful design, Bold 9900 is the dream of many products believers BlackBerry in the holiday shopping season last year.
Design
The design of the BlackBerry Bold 9900 (BB 9900) retains the features as the previous generation Bold smartphone. Machine model larger than size BB 9700 and nearly 9000 original. Along with the weight of 130g, BB 9900 gives you the feeling of my hand. May be wrapped around neatly by a benzene ring in the form of shiny metal milling with delicate designs and polite. Dimensions 115 x 66 x 10.5 mm, this is the thinnest BlackBerry RIM today with a thickness of 10.5 mm.
The front of the machine is designed with a touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard in the traditional style of the BlackBerry. Above the screen is stastus LED lights, the sensor spacing and speaker phone. Between the screen and keyboard trackpad keys to navigate between the typical four. On the top of the screen lock button is made slightly concave to avoid unlock when you slide into the bag.
The right side is the keyboard volume controls, a very convenient option key allows you to add custom functions and use the default camera is available. On the opposite side of a Micro USB port for data connectivity / charger and headphone jack 3.5 mm. The lid is coated with a back three-dimensional carbon fiber-style and modern alternative to the leather cap style rounded as BB 9000.
The cap back also helps integrate antennae NFC NFC card reader and connect with other devices and accessories with own technology. The back is the logo on the lid Bold bright silver highlights on the black background of the case after both sides of this logo is the camera and layout Flash LED lights. When removing the battery can be seen inside the BB 9900 is beautifully designed; stand in the middle of a sim card slot above the yellow card slot supports up to 32 GB but not support removing the heat.
The keyboard and screen
Bold 9900 keyboard has the same design and layout with the Bold before, the keys are meticulously designed to create great feeling when in contact with the fingers. Especially among the key is split chrome bars help for input goods easily and accurately. Compared to the Bold last two versions, made softer keyboard allows you to speed up the use of which is responding correctly. Limit the overall durability of the keyboard does not seem like the "elder", so no chrome bar is fixed on the 9700 for sure.
Also the keyboard has some interesting features, including multiple keys keypad can not be set to speed dial. Dedicated keys for intuitive icons and shortcuts to execute commands such as * is to lock the screen / keyboard, while # is to activate or deactivate the silent mode. The use of numerals as well by simply holding down the Alt key to use them in any text input process.
RIM's new smartphone owners capacitive touch screen 2.8 inch TFT VGA resolution 640 x 480 pixels with pixel density of 286 dpi. Tests showed the brightness and contrast 9900 surpassed BB and iPhone 4 Samsung Galaxy SII only disadvantage of the Nokia E6; however, BB 9900 screen size greater than 2.44 inch of E6. The screen has high brightness and wide viewing angle so you can use in all light conditions. Equipped with touch screen BB 9900 will bring you much better experience of the past especially the Bold does not depend too much on the menu key and optical trackpad to navigate anymore.
Features
Bold 9900 is equipped with single-core Qualcomm processor speed 1.2 GHz and 768 MB RAM memory, is not large compared to the high-end smartphone running Android but can see BB 9900 has improved a lot compared to the previous versions. It has 8 GB of internal memory and support external memory up to 32 GB, but you will get 2 GB memory card comes factory. You have 512 MB to store the application but this is not all memory is used, you can see details of memory management in the application (Application Management). Although memory for applications, but seems less of BlackBerry applications are very light with 512 MB so you can freely install the application.
BlackBerry Bold 9900 OS using BB OS 7, this is the final version of RIM before moving on to QNX. This operating system has many new features advantages such as Vietnamese and NFC support HD video and bring more than experience. Platform operating system configurations running on the 1.2 GHz processor and Adreno 205 graphics card and perhaps the need a higher hardware is why the Bold previous generations have not run on BB OS 7 . The icons to the user interface is quite similar to the Play Book, however the function does not change much compared with the previous version.
Status Area is where the virtual keyboard layout allows you to quickly switch between functions such as cellular, Wi-Fi, NFC and Bluetooth. The custom mode is implemented simply by manipulating the speaker icon selected, the search function is also given to the home screen icon in the right corner of the screen. BB OS 7 allows you to search by voice and enable simple mic icon near the search bar.
Like previous versions of OS 7 sort of applications you use most top-down for convenient use. Also you can organize your favorite apps in a different tab. Navigate the user interface works smoothly and quickly but occasionally will be delayed while the machine is more exchange of data, or when you are installing an application from the BlackBerry Apps World. RIM's application store is organized well with the free application and you can pay for and manage these applications from your computer or directly from the phone.
In stock filter system application allows you to find applications in subjects such as free or paid, the application is rated the best or newest ... although some applications are not rich Android Market and App Store. BB 9900 is also equipped with GPS receivers in the machine with A-GPS support. Users can use BlackBerry Maps application pre-installed in the machine for navigation, but unfortunately this function to use your machine to be activated from the BlackBerry internet and only a single option is the navigation .
The multimedia applications are well supported, although not providing as experienced competitors have large screens. Experiment with 720p MPEG4 video machine for very smooth process. Speakerphone is good quality although not support rich format. With the keyboard volume controls include voice rises and falls and breaks you can easily adjust the music even when the screen is locked.
The office applications are the perfect support for the pre-installed Quick Office allows users to view all office document formats including popular PDF and also supports editing Word, Excel or Power Point . The software package also supports additional computer applications, recording and Notes. There is also a work manager that allows you to sort and organize the plan. Email is inherited advantages as the first smartphone from RIM to support all types of email mailing list and a fast processor, convenient to the sender.
Connect, browse
BlackBerry Bold 9900 supports quad-band 3G with HSDPA 14.4 Mbps and HSUPA 5.76 Mbps and Wi-Fi with dual-band (2.4 GHz 802.11 b / g / n, 5 GHz a / n) for connectivity unsurpassed. Other connections include Bluetooth, micro USB and NFC. NFC support is new to appear on the RIM smartphone than previous models, this advanced technology to connect and share data with other NFC devices simple and easy.
OS 7 for web browsing speed increased by 40% compared to OS 6. The social networking applications to better support multiple applications including theme Feeds: RSS and social positioning, message in a region. Twitter, Facebook, BBM, Yahoo, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk also integrates Skype sadly lacking. Test shows when opening multiple tabs at once web browser still respond quickly and smoothly. You can also share your favorite sites to your friends or bookmark to the browser in a neat manner. Limiting the machine does not support Flash so you will not see the video from a web page.
Camera
Smartphone equipped with a 5 megapixel camera, the highest resolution you can get from a smartphone from RIM. Camera for better picture quality with true color and harmony. Camera key, however annoying when you take the portrait mode and to the resolution of the image you have in the advanced settings menu, the image quality of the BB 9900 is a proud thing for RIM song is just about average compared to segment rivals.
Camera BB 9900 which is owned fixed focus camera that is the receiver of all images from near to infinity without waiting on the camera focus as Auto focus. For general shooting, it may seem this is a good choice when you need to grab the moment with everything in sight focused on the image. Camera of the BB 9900 also supports 720p HD video recording. The image quality of video is pretty good but the camera is fixed-focus close-ups, so when the picture will be blurred.
Battery and pricing
Rim are proud of battery life on your smartphone from the competition, though the Bold 9900 battery 1230 mAh capacity less than the BB Torch 9800 (1300 mAh) and Bold 9000 original (1500 mAh). With the amount of users can be quite disappointing, but the tests showed that the machine has 307 hours standby time, talk time 6 hours 30 minutes. For normal use Bold 9900 survived for about two days, pretty good for a smartphone with touch screen. But if you frequently go out, you should buy a spare battery to avoid battery at work.
