BlackBerry Bold 9790 Review
Score: 50.3 / 100
BlackBerry Bold 9790 is a decent quality BlackBerry cellphone, packing a 1000 MHz processor, a 5 MP back-facing camera and a small sized 2.5-inches display. That's all? No, it's only the beginning.
The BlackBerry Bold 9790's thickness of 0.45" is a little far from today's standards, but it still feels in the hand. This phone isn't really a compact cellphone, given that it is 4.33 inches long and 2.36" wide,but it just packs a 2.5" screen. This phone is available only in color black. Apparently Blackberry forgot about weight optimization in this 3.77 oz device.
Blackberry decided to equip this cellphone using a good performance CPU speeding at 1 gigahertz and 768 MB RAM memory. This cellphone counts with anice 8 GB internal storage and a slot for an SD memory card, allowing you to store hundreds of apps and games without any trouble.
This cellphone is only equipped with a 5 mega-pixels back side camera. It also captures 640x480 VGA videos. This cellphone also features a few nice features: flash, auto-focus, geo tagging and face detection shooting.
Blackberry equipped this phone with a good looking 2.5" display, and a resolution of 360 x 480 , giving this cellphone a good level graphical experience. This display uses TFT capacitive technology, and can detect multiple fingers at the same time.
This phone includes wi-fi connection (but it can't be shared with other devices around, as a mobile mobile hotspot) and fast 3G connectivity, over HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This phone uses a SIM card for GSM connection.
This cellphone also comes with a few useful characteristics like NFC (Near Field Communication), Bluetooth (2.1, EDR) and GPS (Global Positioning System), and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.
This phone packs a medium sized 1230 mAh Li-Ion removable battery that provides this phone a quite short battery duration comparing with other similar cellphones. Blackberry says this phone has a stand by time of 432 hs and a talk time of 5.2 hs.
Blackberry sells this cellphone for 360 dollars, which is expensive for a cellphone this level.
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Specifications
| Device Type: | Phone |
| Brand: | Blackberry |
| Operating System (OS): | BlackBerry 7 |
| Also Known As: | BlackBerry Bellagio, BlackBerry Onyx 3 |
| Dimensions: | 4.33 x 2.36 x 0.45 inchesMetric11 x 5.99 x 1.14 cmImperial |
| Weight: | 3.77 ouncesMetric106.88 gImperial |
| Colors: | Black |
| Price: | $ 360.00 |
Display | |
| Screen Type: | TFT (16M colors) |
| Size: | 2.5 inchesMetric6.4 cmImperial |
| Resolution: | 480 x 360 pixels |
| Pixel density: | 240 pixels per inchMetric94.49 pixels per cmImperial |
| Touch screen: | Capacitive, Multi-touch |
Hardware | |
| Processor: | Marvel Tavor MG1 (Single-Core 1000 MHz) |
| RAM Memory: | 768 MB |
| Graphics Processor: | Yes |
| Internal Memory: | 8 GB |
| SD Card Slot: | microSD, microSDHC (up to 32 GB) |
Battery | |
| Battery type: | Li-Ion |
| Removable: | Yes |
| Capacity: | 1230 mAh |
| Stand-by Time: | 432 hours |
| Talk Time: | 5.2 hours |
Camera | |
| Back camera: | 5 megapixels |
| Flash: | Yes |
| Max video resolution: | 640 x 480 (VGA) |
| Camera features: | Auto-Focus, Face Detection Shooting and Geo Tagging |
Networks | |
| Wi-Fi: | Yes |
| SIM Card Type: | SIM |
| UMTS Bands: | 800, 850, 1900, 2100 |
| GSM Bands: | 850, 900, 1800, 1900 |
| Technologies: | HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, EDGE and GSM |
Other Features | |
| Bluetooth: | Version 2.1, EDR |
| GPS: | Yes |
| NFC (Near Field Communication): | Yes |
| Sensors: | Accelerometer, Compass, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor |