Blackberry Bold 9000 vs Bold 9900 Touch Screen | Full Specs Compared | Bold 9000 vs 9900 Performance and Features
RIM Blackberry’s QWERTY series Bold has two families; narrow QWERTY and WIDE QWERTY. The latest Blackberry WIDE QWERTY Smartphone is Blackberry Bold 9900 code named as Dakota. Predecessor for Bold 9900 was Bold 9000 which was released long back. Bold 9900 is powered by Blackberry OS 6.1 and has a new user interface (UI) with touch screen and full WIDE QWERY keyboard. When compared to Torch 9800, Bold 9780 or Bold 9000, Bold 9900 is very light weight and has excellent user interface.
The major difference between Bold 9900 and Bold 9000 is its hardware; it is totally a new hardware specification compared to Bold 9000. The processor, memory, display, weight and design have changed. Bold 9900 comes with touch screen as well as optical touch pad whereas in Blackberry bold 9000 only touch ball was there. Bold 9000 is powered by Blackberry OS 5.0 and Bold 9900 is powered by Blackberry OS 6.1. The difference between Blackberry OS 6.1 and Blackberry OS 5.0 will also a major differentiation factor.
Blackberry Bold 9000
Blackberry Bold 9000 is one of the best selling blackberry devices mostly in corporate market. Bold 9000 is packed with 624 MHz processor and uses Blackberry OS 5.0. The dimension is 144 x 66 x 15 mm and weighs 136 g.
Blackberry Bold 9900
Blackberry Bold 9900 is the latest addition to the bold family, it comes with WIDE QWERTY and Touch Screen with optical trackpad. Optical trackpad is one of the awesome scrolling functionality by Blackberry. Since Bold comes with full QWERTY keyboard finger movements will always be in the lower part of the phone, in that sense optical touch pad is most useful than touch screen.
Blackberry Bold 9900 is packed with 1.2 GHz Qualcomm 8655 Processor and 768 RAM to run with Blackberry OS 6.1. And also Bold 9900 is the thinnest (115 x 66 x 10.5mm) handset in Blackberry devices and weighs 130 grams only. Bold 9900 designed with 5 MP Autofocus rear camera which supports HD video recording. New Bold 9900 supports Wi-Fi Hotspot functionality as well a NFC which was not introduced earlier with any device.
Blackberry Bold 9000