Can Blackberry’s Touchscreen Handset take on the iPhone?
Posted by admin under iPhones on Tuesday Aug 9, 2011The iPhone 4 is widely considered to be one of the best touchscreen smartphones currently available, and has achieved millions of sales to prove it. However, not every smartphone user is an iPhone convert.
Blackberry has a number of devoted users who prefer the convenience of their devices’ QWERTY keyboard, easy to use and reliable push email and Blackberry Messenger.
With their latest handset, the Bold 9900, by teaming their signature QWERTY keyboard with a responsive touchscreen, Blackberry hopes to reignite their slightly flagging position in the smartphone market by targeting the iPhone’s legion of fans.
• Power
The Blackberry Bold 9900 packs an impressive 1.2GHz CPU and 768MB of RAM, making switching between apps, browsing the web and watching streaming video a breeze. The iPhone 4 is equally powerful, running Apple’s own A4 chipset. It’s slightly lacking in the memory department, housing only 512MB of RAM.
• Software
The iPhone runs of Apple’s incredible iOS platform. It is widely considered to be the smoothest, most easy to use and most stylish operating system there is. And with the imminent arrival of the iOS 5 upgrade, it will be made even better.
The Bold 9900 runs on the much improved version 7.0 of RIM’s Blackberry OS. It has support for HTML 5 and Flash, unlike the iPhone. This latest version of the OS features an attractive liquid graphics interface and a host of new features.
• Camera
Although there are smartphone cameras that pack more megapixels, the iPhone 4’s 5-megapixel camera is capable of producing some of the most beautiful images. It also features an LED flash, 720p video capture and a secondary camera for FaceTime video calling.
The Blackberry Bold 9900 also has a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and 720p video camera, but it doesn’t have a secondary camera, making video calling out of the question.
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