RIM announced two new smartphones running BlackBerry 7 – the BlackBerry Bold 9790 and BlackBerry Curve 9380.
BlackBerry Bold 9790 smartphone is built with premium materials and finishes, and has a high-resolution and highly responsive touch display and a highly tactile keyboard and a precise optical trackpad. It is narrow in design for easy carrying and comfortable holding. It run on a 1 GHz processor for fast, smooth performance, has 8 GB of memory, expandable to 32 GB with a memory card slot.
BlackBerry Curve 9380 is the first-ever BlackBerry Curve smartphone with a touch display. It has a highly responsive and brilliant 3.2-inch high resolution display. It is preinstalled with social networking apps like BlackBerry Messenger, Facebook, Twitter and Social Feeds apps, has a 5 MP camera with flash.
Running BlackBerry 7 the smartphones have preinstalled applications like Premium version of Documents To Go, BlackBerry Protect, BlackBerry Balance, the Social Feeds (2.0) app and Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones (2.0) app with chat and BBM integration. There is also a browser with a new JIT (just in time) JavaScript compiler and optimized HTML5 performance.
The BlackBerry Bold 9790 and BlackBerry Curve 9380 smartphones support Augmented Reality and NFC, like the Wikitude Augmented Reality application to find nearby BBM contacts in real-time, and read reviews and other stories.
The BlackBerry Bold 9790 and BlackBerry Curve 9380 smartphones will be available from various carriers around the world soon.
