Are these two raw OS 7 - running BlackBerrys enough to hollow RIM out of its late troubles ? In a give-and-take , no . But the kids will love the new all - touchscreen body of the Curve 9380 , and lawsuit will love ( read : tolerate ) the virtually - unchanged Bold 9790 .
In short , they ’re the second-rate updates to two existing intersection air that you anticipate from RIM … which get us really distressing , as we bed it ’s capable of so much more . Just take care at the PlayBook — sure as shooting , it had some defect , but it was an exciting glimpse behind the curtain to what RIM can achieve when its idea is determine to the task at script .
The Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 do n’t come along to have been given the same thought . sure enough , the Curve 9380 might be the first Curve with an entirely - touch screen show , but is n’t that just the badly - fated Storm ? Whatever it is , it has a 3.2 - inch display ( no word on the rez yet ) and 5 - megapixel flashgun .
Meanwhile , the Bold 9790 ’s touchscreen + keyboard combo is hardly new — we first saw it in the flesh of the 9900back in May . As the model issue suggests , this new Bold is passably scale - down , with only a 1GHz central processor ( equate to 1.2GHz ) . It does let in the 8 GB of built - in store however , along with the microSD card one-armed bandit that can handle a further 32 GB .
https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-bold-9900-9930-phone-combines-touch-type-an-5797642
Both phone are NFC compatible thanks to thenew - ish BlackBerry 7 OS , and also make exercise of the faster web browser , which suffer HTML5 . Voice - activated searching is another “ feature of speech ” in the 7th iteration of BlackBerry ’s type O , along with “ Balance , ” which lets you search your headphone for either work or personal stuff — if you ’re that way fain .
https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-os-7-update-brings-improved-browsing-and-bet-5797650
The Curve 9380 will be on sale in the UK before Christmas , with the bluff 9790 sometime too soon next twelvemonth , with US launch point not known yet . [ viaGizmodo UK ]
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