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January 7, 2010

BlackBerry Bold 9700 review

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RIM has been showing off its brand-new RIM BlackBerry Bold 2 smartphone to select journalists in London this week. We were among the chosen reviewers to be given an in-depth, hands-on briefing with the BlackBerry Bold 9700.

Media keys on the outside of the BlackBerry Bold 9700 are now neatly encased in protective rubber, while the removable microSD card slot used to store music, video and photos slides in at an angle at the back of the handset, just below the embossed Bold logo. This makes it far less fiddly to insert or switch media cards.

As well as tracks downloaded over the air using a service such as the 7Digital music store (where some 7 million DRM-free tracks are offered), media from an iTunes or Windows Media Player library can be played on the Bold 9700. In line with the launch of BlackBerry for Mac software last month, media libraries on both Windows PCs and Macs can be synchronised with the smartphone.

With wearying familiarity we were informed that there was only intermittent web access in the basement meeting room where our one-on-one demonstration with the BlackBerry Bold 9700 took place, so we weren't able to draw conclusions about the 3G or Wi-Fi functions - though we did download an app from the BlackBerry App World store in the course of checking the responsiveness of the navigation menu.

The display, however, is an impressively bright 320K colour 480x360-pixels, while the camera is now a 3.2Mp version. Such consumer-friendly aspects are increasingly important to RIM: in its last business quarter, 80 percent of its subscribers were consumers who access their emails and the web using BIS (BlackBerry Internet Services) rather than BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) clients.

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RIM (BlackBerry) RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700 scored:
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The 2 most helpful reviews based on 15 reviews:

07 Nov 2009 Anonymous verified purchaser

8

Good Points

Great design and battery life. It really easy to use.

Bad Points

There is a mute button on top of the phone which put it into standby mode. Every time I seem to put it into the case it does this and can be annoying to get it back onto normal mode.

10 Nov 2009 Alan, Bristol

10

Good Points

I think more than anyting,I love the large screen and overall design of the product,it is so easy to use.

Bad Points

None!

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