Monday, May 2, 2011

New BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 Smartphones w/ BlackBerry 7 OS

RIM announced today that the iconic BlackBerry Bold smartphone family has just received a powerful update with the new BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 smartphones driven by the BlackBerry 7 OS.

Like the BlackBerry Torch smartphone, these new devices integrate brilliant, high resolution, capacitive touch screens, trackpads and full QWERTY keypads and are the thinnest BlackBerry smartphones yet. Here’s a quick look at some of the key specs for the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 smartphones.

115 x 66 x 10.5 mm, approximately 130 g

2.8″ capacitive touch screen display – VGA (640×480), 287 PPI resolution

Full, wide 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 with flash, supports 720p HD video recording

Orientation Sensor (Accelerometer), Digital Compass (Magnetometer), Proximity Sensor