Once upon a time RIM and now BlackBerry, the company has had the word ‘Smartphone’ synonymous to its QWERTY keypad phones. BlackBerry devices continue on improving their software keeping up with its position in the market.
Let us look at these devices, claimed to be the best as listed out by Digital Trends.
BlackBerry Style 9670Price:
14, 699BlackBerry has named this phone – Style. But its design seems to be unapologetically fat. It is powered by a 624 MHz processor coupled with a 512MB RAM. It runs on BlackBerry OS 6 with several enhancements versus the previous one.
The Style has an internal memory space of 8GB with microSD card option for expandable media storage up to 32 GB.
The phone has a 2.7 inch internal screen (360 x 400 pixel resolution) with a 5 mega pixel camera and a VGA on the front. Both the screens are however sharp and bright and the phone also gives good voice clarity.
The phone has WLAN, USB and Bluetooth for connectivity. The QWERTY keypad is also easy to use giving good grip.
BlackBerry Bold 9700
Price:12,990 onwards
The Bold 9700 is BlackBerry’s stylistic handset just like the Curve 8900. Powered by a 624MHz processor, it runs on BlackBerry’s Operating System v5.0, which is upgradable to v6.0.
The Bold comes stacked with an internal memory of only 256 MB, but includes a 2GB micro SD card in the built in expansion slot. The memory is expandable up to a whopping 32 GB.
The solid built quality phone has a 2.44 inch display, with a 3.2 mega pixel rear camera and a VGA in front. Despite the small size of the phone, there is a 1500 mAh battery with 6 hours of talk time and 21 hours of standby time. The battery performance is however claimed to be one of the best as compared to other blackberry handsets.
BlackBerry Torch 9800
Price:15,990 onwards
BlackBerry Torch 9800 comes with a QWERY keypad cum multi touch screen display running BlackBerry OS 6. It is powered by a 624 MHz processor, coupled with a 512 MB RAM.
The internal storage memory of the phone is 4 GB and is expandable up to 32 GB. There is a 3.2 inch capacitive touch screen, with a resolution of 480 x 360. This is the first Touch screen Smartphone from RIM (now BlackBerry). On the back, there is a 5 megapixel LED flash camera and there is an allowance for video recording at 24 fps.
There are varied connectivity options to the Smartphone, like GPRS, EDGE, 3G and Wi-Fi, giving easy internet access. Bluetooth and USB are also a part of it.
The overall design offers good grip to the users with multi touch input method that allows work more efficiently.
BlackBerry Torch 9810
Price:27, 342
BlackBerry Torch 9810 comes with a 1.2 GHz processor, running BlackBerry OS 7. The Smartphone has a RAM of 768 MB.
The internal storage capacity of the phone is 8GB, but the microSD card allows expandability up to 32 GB.
This phone has a TFT LCD display of 3.2 inches with a screen resolution of 640 x 480 pixels and also a QWERTY keypad. The Liquid Graphics technology present in the touch screen also provides for fluid animations and instant response times. A 5 mega pixel camera is fitted on the back with flash and continuous auto focus.
The Smartphone is Wi-Fi enabled with 2G and 3G network support as well as Bluetooth and USB. Socialization on the phone is very easy allowing users with social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter.
BlackBerry Bold 9700Price:
12,990 onwardsThe Bold 9700 is BlackBerry’s stylistic handset just like the Curve 8900. Powered by a 624MHz processor, it runs on BlackBerry’s Operating System v5.0, which is upgradable to v6.0.
The Bold comes stacked with an internal memory of only 256 MB, but includes a 2GB micro SD card in the built in expansion slot. The memory is expandable up to a whopping 32 GB.
The solid built quality phone has a 2.44 inch display, with a 3.2 mega pixel rear camera and a VGA in front. Despite the small size of the phone, there is a 1500 mAh battery with 6 hours of talk time and 21 hours of standby time. The battery performance is however claimed to be one of the best as compared to other blackberry handsets.
Connectivity features of the phone are GPRS, EDGE, Speed, WLAN, Bluetooth and USB.
The phone is said to give clear landline quality just but its keyboard potentially small for large fingers.
BlackBerry Torch 9800Price:
15,990 onwardsBlackBerry Torch 9800 comes with a QWERY keypad cum multi touch screen display running BlackBerry OS 6. It is powered by a 624 MHz processor, coupled with a 512 MB RAM.
The internal storage memory of the phone is 4 GB and is expandable up to 32 GB. There is a 3.2 inch capacitive touch screen, with a resolution of 480 x 360. This is the first Touch screen Smartphone from RIM (now BlackBerry). On the back, there is a 5 megapixel LED flash camera and there is an allowance for video recording at 24 fps.
There are varied connectivity options to the Smartphone, like GPRS, EDGE, 3G and Wi-Fi, giving easy internet access. Bluetooth and USB are also a part of it.
The overall design offers good grip to the users with multi touch input method that allows work more efficiently.
The Smartphone has a 1270 mAh battery that gives a talk time up to 5 hours on 3G.
BlackBerry Torch 9810Price:
27, 342BlackBerry Torch 9810 comes with a 1.2 GHz processor, running BlackBerry OS 7. The Smartphone has a RAM of 768 MB.
The internal storage capacity of the phone is 8GB, but the microSD card allows expandability up to 32 GB.
This phone has a TFT LCD display of 3.2 inches with a screen resolution of 640 x 480 pixels and also a QWERTY keypad. The Liquid Graphics technology present in the touch screen also provides for fluid animations and instant response times. A 5 mega pixel camera is fitted on the back with flash and continuous auto focus.
The Smartphone is Wi-Fi enabled with 2G and 3G network support as well as Bluetooth and USB. Socialization on the phone is very easy allowing users with social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter.
The 1270 mAh battery allows 6 hours in 2G and 5 hours in 3G network.
BlackBerry Z10
Price: 40, 999
BlackBerry Z10 is one of the first models to run on BlackBerry 10 operating system. This full touch screen device comes with a 1.5GHz dual core processor and a 2GB RAM.
The internal memory of this Smartphone is 16 GB and since it comes with microSD, the storage space is expandable up to 32 GB.
BlackBerry Z10Price:
40, 999BlackBerry Z10 is one of the first models to run on BlackBerry 10 operating system. This full touch screen device comes with a 1.5GHz dual core processor and a 2GB RAM.
The internal memory of this Smartphone is 16 GB and since it comes with microSD, the storage space is expandable up to 32 GB.
The Smartphone has a 4.2 inch display screen with 1280 x 768 pixel resolution. It has an 8 megapixel camera on the back that captures images with good quality. There is a secondary camera of 2 mega pixel as well.
The connectivity features of the Smartphone include 4G LTE, 3G and Wi-Fi.
Multimedia features like media players, social networking apps, games and FM radio are also available in the Smartphone.
The 1800 mAh battery allows 10 hours of talk time and 316 hours of Standby time.
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