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BlackBerry Bold 9700
Global Score
37.541.1
Basic Information
BlackberryHTC
BlackBerry 5.0.xWindows Mobile Professional 6.0
2009-10-212007-11-12
4.29 x 2.36 x 0.56 inches4.33 x 2.28 x 0.61 inches
4.30 ounces4.58 ounces
$ 419.00$ 149.00
Display / Screen
2.4 inches2.8 inches
480 x 360 pixels 240 x 320 pixels (QVGA)
TFTTFT
250 pixels per inch143 pixels per inch
No touch screenResistive
6.65.8
Performance
--Qualcomm MSM7200 chipset
processor Single-Core 400 MHz processor
--128 MB RAM
GPU GPU
5.766.39
microSD, microSDHC external memory slotmicroSD, microSDHC external memory slot
Camera
3.20 MP3.00 MP
5.175.06
Networks
Wi-FiWi-Fi
HSDPA, UMTS, EDGE and GSMHSDPA, UMTS, EDGE and GSM
SIMSIM
3.33.3
Battery Life
1500mAh Li-Ion Battery1350mAh Li-Ion Battery
Removable BatteryRemovable Battery
456 hours standby time
6 hours talk time
400 hours standby time
7 hours talk time
3.283.12
Other Features
Bluetooth 2.1, EDRBluetooth 2.0
GPSGPS
Light Sensor--
--FM Radio

Comparison review

The HTC Touch Cruise has a score of 41.1, which is just a bit better than BlackBerry Bold 9700's 37.5 general score. HTC Touch Cruise comes with Windows Mobile Professional 6.0 OS, and BlackBerry Bold 9700 has BlackBerry 5.0.x OS. Even being the best device we compare here, HTC Touch Cruise is an older, a bit heavier and a little thicker device than BlackBerry Bold 9700.

BlackBerry Bold 9700 has a brighter screen than HTC Touch Cruise, because although it has a little smaller screen, it also counts with a lot greater count of pixels per inch of screen and a way better resolution of 360 x 480. BlackBerry Bold 9700 and HTC Touch Cruise feature very similar storage capacity to install applications and games or saving photos and videos, although the HTC Touch Cruise has no slot for SD memory cards.

The HTC Touch Cruise has a superior hardware performance than BlackBerry Bold 9700, because it has more cores. BlackBerry Bold 9700 features a little longer battery lifetime than HTC Touch Cruise, because it has an 11 percent greater battery capacity. BlackBerry Bold 9700 counts with a slightly better camera than HTC Touch Cruise, because it has a back facing camera with more mega pixels.

In addition to being the best phone of the ones we are comparing, the HTC Touch Cruise is also by far the cheapest one.




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