The BlackBerry Bold 9700 is a BlackBerry mobile phone targeted at the consumer market as opposed to BlackBerry’s traditional business market. The BlackBerry Bold 9700, compared with older BlackBerry mobile phones, looks slimmer, with more attention paid to the media functions.
The BlackBerry Bold 9700 is 4.29 by 2.36 by 0.56 inches, and weighs 4.3 ounces. Its range of features include six hours of talk time, 19 days of standby battery life, a main display of 480 x 360 pixels measuring 2.44 inches and a camera with 3.2 megapixel resolution, flash, auto focus, image stabiliser and digital zoom. The multimedia features are video supporting MPEG4, H.263, H.264, DivX 4, DivX 5, XviD, WMV and flash video and a music player supporting MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, and AMR files.
The mobile phone has a full QWERTY keyboard, BlackBerry browser, microUSB, Wi-Fi and 2.1 stereo Bluetooth.
The excellent email functions and the superlative battery life are among the BlackBerry Bold 9700’s best review points. The replacement of a rollerball in earlier BlackBerry mobile phones with an optical trackpad is very successful. Although the screen is not the largest available in smartphones, generally it is clear and sharp. The QWERTY keyboard is easy to use and highly responsive.
On the downside, the BlackBerry Bold 9700 is quite complicated in its display of menus, which can be somewhat confusing to navigate.
The majority of BlackBerry Bold 9700 deals offer free minutes, unlimited texts and a free handset.
