RIM BlackBerry 9900 Bold

Overview

The BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 (also known as Bold Touch) was introduced in August 2011, it is the first of the Bold line to provide a touchscreen. It marks a return to the form factor of the original 9000 and its popular wide-set physical keyboard. It's promoted as the thinnest Blackberry ever.

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 46 expert reviews

Excellent:

10
Good:

23
Average:

8
Bad:

5

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Last revision on April 25, 2013

Reviewers Liked

Unbelievably easy to get comfortable with
Slick performer
Fantastic keyboard
Decent touchscreen
Gorgeous piece of hardware
Excellent reception
Fastest browser of any smartphone OS
Excellent integration of touch-screen and QWERTY keyboard
Universal inbox
Phenomenal ease of use
NFC ready
Beautiful screen
Really fast in everyday usage

Reviewers Didn't Like

Battery life is still quite limited
Expensive
BlackBerry OS 7 isn't much of a modernization, but rather an update to support touch screens
App World still puny compared to Android and iOS
Average camera
No dual-core processor
Only 768MB of RAM
Updating apps still requires a reboot

Expert reviews and ratings

The BlackBerry Bold is a fine phone. The best BlackBerry Bold yet. If you need a phone purely for staying in touch through email, text message and instant messaging, the BlackBerry 9900 is ideal, if not flawed in some areas. BlackBerry Bold 9900...

By 5FWD on February 13, 2012

Follow @MobileGalen When it debuted in 2008, the BlackBerry Bold quickly achieved iconic status as the must-have executive smartphone, with a QWERTY keyboard that made emails a snap. Not four years later, the Bold is struggling to remain relevant,...

By InfoWorld on December 23, 2011

Overall, the new BlackBerry Bold 9900 is a great mobile device which features many useful and tech-savvy features which will appeal to all generations. Unfortunately, features such as its camera functionality have not been updated and as such...

By BrightHub on October 28, 2011

The Bold series gets a much needed facelift in design and extra power under the hood. The Bold 9900 holds a lot of promise....

By PCWorld India on October 21, 2011

The BlackBerry Bold 9900 is the perfect choice for the busy pro, but less impressive multimedia features mean it's definitely not an all-rounder. If you want a wider range of features from an RIM handset, you should look elsewhere in the BlackBerry...

By DigitalVersus on October 21, 2011

Bold Touch 9900 certainly impresses with robust hardware, great screen and a superlative QWERTY keypad. Though the phone suffers from certain drawbacks such as a mediocre camera, lack of FM and 1.2 GHz processor, but overall the phone has a great...

By MobilesRoom on October 14, 2011

The BlackBerry Bold 9900 is just about the perfect upgrade for existing BlackBerry users. The keyboard's excellent, the touchscreen's great and the new software adds plenty too. However, when stacked against the Android and iPhone competition it...

By Trusted Reviews on September 28, 2011

The BlackBerry Bold 9900 is yet another good, solid workhorse of a BlackBerry phone that does most things fairly well, and excels at messaging, which is pretty much what the brand was built on. But as its rivals continue to innovate, RIM seems to be...

By Wired UK on September 26, 2011

Excellent build quality and an updated software make the 9900 an extremely capable smartphone, but at a high price...

By Expert Reviews on September 23, 2011

At a price of just above Rs 32000, the Bold 4 doesn’t come cheap. However, this one is the best-looking Blackberry device we have seen in a long time. And also fact that the keypad is just so unbelievably good to use that we were actually sad when...

By ThinkDigit on September 22, 2011

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