Who is going to win the contest? Is it the successor of Bold 9700, the Bold 9780 or the Bold 9900? We can have the answer after both phones show their real ability on the comparison. So let’s begin to compare the specification, so we can have the winner immediately.
The comparison begins with comparing the form of both phones.
Measuring at 115 x 66 x 10.5mm and 130g of weighs, the top of the range Bold 9900 comes as the thinner and overall smaller of the two devices. But, with measuring at 109 x 60 x 14mm and 122g of weighs, BlackBerry Bold 9780 appears quite competitive in the matter of size since there is not much gap between its size and the competitor’s.
RIM’s plan to offer less bulk and thinner devices seems working well with designing the Bold 9780 and the Bold 9900 in sleeker and angular design. Both devices are equipped with RIM’s device signature, the fixed BlackBerry QWERTY keyboard. Despite the QWERTY keyboard reduces the size of the touchscreen, the BlackBerry fans are still like them.
Both devices are appeared in a very neat appearance, so we still don’t have a winner here.
Let’s continue the comparison with comparing their displays.
The display that is attached on BlackBerry Bold 9900 is a 2.8-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with 640 x 480 pixels of resolution. The users of this device are given more options to control the device in the form of an optical track-pad and multi-touch input. BlackBerry Bold 9900 also has an accelerometer sensor for interface rotation. The pixel density of this handset is 285 pixels-per-inch (ppi).
Meanwhile, the competitor offers the future users a backlit Transmissive TFT LCD capacitive at 2.4-inches touchscreen. Apart from offering little smaller screen, the handset’s screen resolution is lower than its competitor’s screen resolution. The screen resolution of BlackBerry Bold 9780 is 480×360 pixels and the pixel density of it is at 245 ppi.
BlackBerry Bold 9900 offers larger yet better screen than what the competitor try to offer to the BlackBerry fans. So, there is no doubt here that the Bold 9900 comes out as the winner here in display comparison.
The battle of the RIM’s phones continues with comparing the storage they offer to the fans.
BlackBerry Bold 9900 gives more scope to keep favorite applications, contacts and multimedia need with providing total 8GB of internal capacity that is upgradable to 32 GB through microSD card support. It is also supported by 768 MB of RAM.
For once more, the Bold 9780 can’t beat the Bold 9900 by offering smaller amount of storage. With card support is the same as its cousin and a 2GB card is included with the phone plus 512MB of RAM, the Bold 9780 seems to be the downgrade of its competitor.
For processor battle, let’s see if the Bold 9780 can compete the Bold 9900.
BlackBerry Bold 9780 is powered by 624MHz processor, the same one found in the Bold 9700. Quite powerful processor, isn’t it?
Meanwhile, the competitor Bold 9900 boasts a single core Qualcomm Scorpion MSM 8655 clocked at 1.2GHz and running the Snapdragon chipset. Besides, an Adreno 205 graphics processing unit (GPU) is planted on the device to give more support in displaying the image.
Actually, what is planted in the 9780 to support its performance is quite powerful, but the competitor comes with more powerful processor that is combined with graphics processing unit. So, for the processor battle, Bold 9900 comes out as the winner again.
Operating system:
BlackBerry Bold is running on BlackBerry OS 6.0 when the competitor runs on newer version of BlackBerry OS, version 7.0.
BlackBerry OS 6.0 is running well on Bold 9780 as it is being optimized with the handset’s processor. The operating system offers more needed extra features that are making the device more functional. The highlighted part of the OS 6 update is when the OS offers the ‘Search from Homescreen’ feature. It also offers the Android looked like style drag-down notification bar, complete with pop-up menu tabs.
The device becomes friendlier with applications since it has been supported with Javascript. The OS 6.0 also added Flash and HTML 5. Through BlackBerry OS 6.0, RIM offered handier, more functional and complete set of applications.
The BlackBerry OS 6.0 also offered the Webkit based default browser. In this version tabbed browsing is enabled on the default browser.
Meanwhile, when the OS 6 offers quite powerful ability, RIM then developed it to OS 7.0 version. Actually, there is not much of change in appearance. The OS 7.0 offers visually identical interface and menus. But, it offers more in functionality.
Apart from offering smoother interface navigations, the OS 7.0 bump up the default browser’s browsing speed. It also added the functionality with pinch-zoom and voice-activated search. The default bowser is also combined with the custom Javascript and the updated Flash support.
By having the 7.0 version runs on the BlackBerry Bold 9900, the user of this handset will be allowed to enjoy the NFC (Near Field Communications). This is a technology that allows the handset’s user to pay the bill by swiping the phone over a sensor.
This version of operating system is also allowing the Bold 9900 users to enjoy capturing video in 720p HD. For the final feature that included to the OS 7.0 version is BlackBerry Balance suite that allows the users to separate their professional and personal lives while keeping them easily accessible.
Well, it is easy to say that BlackBerry Bold 9900 comes as the winner. The device runs on the newer BlackBerry OS that offers more functionalities and better performance than the previous version of BlackBerry OS.
Camera battle
Camera is one of several features that considered as the must installed on the recently released phones. As a newly introduced to the market, both devices are equipped with the same 5-megapixel primary camera at 2592×1944 pixels. Apart from sharing the same camera, they also share camera features such as autofocus, image stabilization and LED flash.
However, the Bold 9900 offers more features such as geo-tagging, face detection, 4x digital zoom, zero shutter lag, photo effects and HD video capture at 720p.
Meanwhile, the Bold 9780 fights the newer phone by offering 2x digital zoom and video recording ability. But the video recording of this handset is not HD video capture at 720p, so we can say the video recording ability that the Bold 9780 offered to the future users is not as good as the Bold 9900’s.
The Bold 9900 can win the camera battle easily because of the features that are offered more variety and more powerful than the Bold 9780.
For the final result, it is clear that BlackBerry Bold 9900 comes out as the champion.
How could it be the champ? Of course, it is more powerful and offers an advanced technology in the form of NFC. Apart from that, it also has a HD video capture at 720p ability that the Bold 9780 doesn’t support.
BlackBerry Bold 9900 has been supported by faster processor, more storage space, more features equipped camera and newer version of BlackBerry OS.
So, for those who are still confused in deciding which phone is better? Now, the question has been answered.
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