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RIM BlackBerry 9930 Bold

Based on 11 reviews

Excellent:

0
Good:

2
Average:

5
Bad:

4

Pros

Excellent formfactor and build quality, excellent display, great performance with smooth and responsive OS, great social media integration messaging experience.
Sleek design, Sharp screen, Sublime QWERTY keyboard, Unlocked SIM card slot for overseas travel.
Great hardware, awesome keyboard, fast processor
Thin, sleek design, Sublime QWERTY keyboard, Very sharp screen, Faster CPU makes a real difference, Excellent battery life.
The RIM BlackBerry Bold 9930 has a wider and thinner design and is exceedingly well-made. It boasts stunning graphics, a new touch-screen display, an amazing physical QWERTY keyboard, a faster 1.2GHz processor, and the new BlackBerry OS 7 that brings a...
Sharp, bright display, Slim, highquality design, Excellent keyboard.
Solid design, Snappy performance, Battery life
Superb build and looks, best keyboard on the market, fast.
Premium feeling handset, Best portrait style keyboard on the market, Responsive platform experience, Global handset, Builtin NFC chip

Cons

Not a 4G device, slow web speeds, some reception issues, needs to be priced more competitively
No 4G, No mobile hotspot mode, Few compelling apps available.
Dated OS, smallish screen, lack of apps
Expensive, No 4G, Balky app store lacks compelling programs, Archaic BlackBerry OS is largely unchanged, even in version 7 guise, and is slated for extinction anyway, MicroSD card is buried behind the battery.
The BlackBerry Bold 9930 doesn't have the best call quality, and we think its price is too steep. The OS 7 user interface is not that different from OS 6.
Price is too high, Call quality is uneven.
Small display, BlackBerry 7 already feels dated, No LTE
Small display, dated OS and lack of 3rd party apps.
Platform still feels dated, Subpar photo & video capture, Pricey at $250 oncontract

By MobilesRoom on November 17, 2011

Bold 9930 is a great phone which boasts of study and slim design coupled with great keyboard and voice reception facilities. The touchscreen of the device is also quite responsive, but the UI and the camera is not up to the market. At the above price...

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By Chip Chick on September 26, 2011

Because of its great form-factor, excellent keyboard and display, superb messaging and social media integration, great multitasking and peppy performance, the latest generation of the Bold is the best BlackBerry ever. However, battery life on the Bold...

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By PC Mag on September 08, 2011

Sprint's version of the BlackBerry Bold 9930 is slightly different than its Verizon cousin, but the overall theme is the same: flashy, current-generation hardware, but yesterday's operating system and apps....

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By BrightHub on August 31, 2011

Overall, disappointingly, the Bold 9930 ranks in as an 'Average' smartphone. RIM has done a great job building up anticipation for the next generation of BlackBerries and the Bold 9930 started off strong with its absolutely stunning design, but...

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By Phone Scoop on August 24, 2011

Research In Motion did a very good job with the BlackBerry Bold 9930. It is not radically new by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a significant upgrade compared to what preceded it. The hardware is probably the best every designed by RIM,...

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By MobileBurn on August 23, 2011

Sponsored links, if any, appear in green. The BlackBerry Bold 9930 (and its 9900 brethren) is one of three new smartphones from RIM that run the new BlackBerry 7 OS. Of the three, (the other two being the Torch 9810 and the Torch 9850/9860), the...

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By LaptopMag on August 22, 2011

The BlackBerry Bold 9930 for Verizon Wireless--a smartphone with a small 2.8-inch display and no 4G data--costs $249. Seriously? You can get a 4.3-inch with LTE for that. Then again, the 9330 does something no BlackBerry has done before: Combine a...

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By eTech Reviews on August 21, 2011

Finally we would say that the all new BlackBerry Bold 9930 as for now is the best QWERTY BlackBerry phone that we’ve seen, but at the same time we think that the price should’ve been a tad lower.Random PostsTags: blackberry bold 9930...

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By PC Mag on August 19, 2011

Despite its classy design and fast CPU, the BlackBerry Bold 9930 for Verizon is essentially a middling attempt to keep RIM afloat ahead of its long-delayed QNX software platform....

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By cnet on August 17, 2011

The BlackBerry Bold 9930 is the best QWERTY BlackBerry to date, but should be priced...

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