BlackBerry Bold 9780 Sim Free Smartphone - Black: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

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BlackBerry Bold 9780 smartphone - The first BlackBerry® Bold™ smartphone with BlackBerry® 6

The new BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone gives you the boldest BlackBerry® experience yet. Powered by the new BlackBerry® 6, it offers a fluid, easy to use design that gets you to all your most-used apps faster. The browser lets you surf and download rich web pages in a snap. Universal search puts everything at your fingertips, whether it’s on your smartphone or on the web. And when you want to express yourself, the perfected BlackBerry® keyboard lets your fingers fly freely.

Wrapped in finely crafted materials and finishes, the details make this smartphone as much fun to hold as it is to show off. So you can capture moments as they happen — and share them — with the full-featured 5MP camera. Then take your smartphone even further with apps made exclusively for BlackBerry smartphones from BlackBerry® App World. Enhance your BlackBerry Bold 9780 in style with BlackBerry® accessories like the BlackBerry® Wireless Headset HS-700. Top it off with the best BlackBerry battery life and instant conversations with BBM™ and you have the ultimate BlackBerry® smartphone — one that’s as bold and driven as you.

Better than ever with BlackBerry 6 OS

BlackBerry®6 OS makes it easier than ever to pursue your passions. With social feeds and views, you get updates from all your social networking and RSS feeds – like Twitter®, Facebook® and Reuters® – in one place. A new web experience includes tabbed browsing, so you can have multiple pages open at once. And all your content is easy to access: universal search combs through everything on your smartphone at once, and even reaches out to the web.

The smartphone that’s just as capable as you are

The BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone is packed with lots of features to love. Like a 5MP camera for vivid, clear pictures and video, built-in GPS and an optical trackpad that responds to the light touch of a fingertip. Plus there’s Wi-Fi® and 3G so you can connect to the Internet almost anywhere. And with 512MB of memory, your BlackBerry Bold 9780 smartphone does everything effortlessly.

Chat in real-time with BBM

Wherever you are, BBM™ lets you connect to the people who matter most and say it with words, photos, voice notes and more. What’s more, you can share it all using one screen. You can create different groups, tailored to your specific interests and relationships. And BBM™ gets your messages to where they’re going in no time.

A smartphone that begs to be held

Once you pick up your BlackBerry Bold, it’ll be hard to let go. From the perfected BlackBerry keyboard to the vibrant screen and leather-like battery cover, every part of the smartphone has been carefully thought-out and crafted to appeal to your senses.

The quintessential BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone
BlackBerry 6 offers the enhanced browsing experience you expect on a BlackBerry® Bold™ smartphone

Powerful and fully in charge

Now the life of your battery won’t get in the way of your life. The BlackBerry Bold 9780 smartphone is designed to be power efficient, which means there’s no needless drain on your battery. So chances are you’ll run out of energy exchanging emails, making phone calls and sharing your experiences on Twitter® before your BlackBerry smartphone does.

Multitasking made easy

Your BlackBerry Bold 9780 is a natural-born multi-tasker. With the new application switcher in BlackBerry®6 OS, you can jump between applications faster. And while your attention is focused on one application, the other applications are still working for you. So whatever you’re up to, emails, messages, updates, and notifications can keep coming through.

All media, all the time

Carry, watch and share your videos, pictures, files and more. With the ability to sync music over Wi-Fi® using BlackBerry® Media Sync you can now access your home music library right from your BlackBerry smartphone. Scrolling through your music is as easy as swiping through album art. And with lots of space to store all kinds of files, you’ve got room to grow your collection.

Get personal with it

Make your Bold 9780 a smartphone that meets your very individual needs with a variety of apps designed just for BlackBerry from BlackBerry App World™. Express your own personal style with custom ring tones, notifications, wallpapers and themes. Finally, dress it all up with BlackBerry® Authentic Accessories like headsets and cases.

Boldly engage your world your way

The boldest BlackBerry® experience yet starts with BlackBerry® 6. With a fluid design and clean, sleek visuals, BlackBerry® 6 makes it easier than ever to pursue your passions. You can multitask like crazy with the new, easy-to-use application switcher. With social feeds and views, you get updates from all your social networking and RSS feeds – like Twitter®, Facebook® and Reuters® – in one place. A new web experience includes tabbed browsing, so you can have multiple pages open at once. Multimedia applications are easier to use than ever. And all your content is easy to access: universal search combs through everything on your smartphone at once and even reaches out to the web.

Finely tuned, so your fingers can do the talking

No one wants to stumble over their words. So the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone has a keyboard that lets you type almost as easily as you talk. It takes everything BlackBerry® users love about their keyboard and makes it even better. Each key is shaped, angled and positioned for speed and accuracy. It’s a keyboard that makes typing second nature so you get it right the first time.

A smartphone that begs to be held

Looking good and feeling great. The BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone melds form and function together beautifully. From the perfected Blackberry® keyboard to the vibrant screen and leather-like battery cover, every part of the smartphone has been carefully thought-out and crafted to appeal to your senses. Go on and pick it up. You know you want to.

The smartphone that’s just as capable as you are

The BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone is packed with tons of features to love, everything you’d expect in the boldest BlackBerry smartphone. There’s a 5MP camera for vivid, clear pictures and video on the go. Built-in GPS lets you know where you’re going. And an optical trackpad helps you get to your apps with the light touch of a fingertip. Plus there’s Wi-Fi® and 3G so you can connect to the Internet almost anywhere. It can even wirelessly connect to Bluetooth® headsets and hands-free car systems. And with 512MB of memory, your Blackberry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone does everything effortlessly.

Tireless and fully in charge

Lean and fit. That’s the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone. Its battery gives it the stamina of a marathoner. It’s also designed to be power efficient, which means there’s no needless drain on your battery. So chances are you’ll run out of energy exchanging emails, making phone calls and sharing your experiences on Twitter before your BlackBerry smartphone does. Rest easy knowing the life of your battery won’t get in the way of your life.

Make that instant connection

Nothing lets you express yourself like BBM®. Wherever you are, BBM lets you connect to the people who matter most and say it with words, photos, voice notes and more. And you can share it all using one screen. Create different groups, tailored to your specific interests and relationships. So your friends can plan for the weekend bike trip together, your family can all share photos of their vacations and your colleagues can discuss the next project. No matter who you’re talking to, BBM™ gets your messages to where they’re going in no time.

Let your smartphone get that for you

You don’t have time to wait. The BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone delivers messages, updates and notifications right to you automatically. So instead of digging through multiple websites and applications – not to mention draining your battery and time – you can let it all come to you. Fast. It’s just one more way that BlackBerry® helps you do more of what you love.

Designed to work the way you do

You’re a natural-born multi-tasker. Fortunately, so is your BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone. With the new application switcher in BlackBerry® 6, you can jump between applications faster. And while your attention is focused on one application, the other applications are still working for you. So whatever you’re up to, emails, messages, updates, and notifications keep coming through. And it all happens while efficiently using your battery. So go ahead, do it all – at once.

Now it’s personal

Right out of the box, your BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone delivers the ultimate BlackBerry® experience with ease and style. Now push it even further and make it a smartphone that meets your very demanding, very individual needs with apps made exclusively for your smartphone from BlackBerry App World™. You’ll find apps only available for BlackBerry users that help you get the most out of everything your BlackBerry® smartphone has to offer. Want to keep up to date with the people in your professional network? Get the LinkedIn app. Looking for a great bowl of pad thai that’s within a five minute walk of where you are? Download the buzzd app. Want to check the markets? Get the Bloomberg® mobile app. And stay on top of friends and trends with Twitter® for BlackBerry smartphones.

Do more, with style

Enhance the power and appeal of your BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone with accessories specifically made for your BlackBerry® smartphone. Choose from a huge range of skins, folios, pockets and more that are tailor made for your smartphone. They’ll help protect your smartphone from the scratches and dings of a busy lifestyle and look fabulous doing it. When it’s time to charge up, you’ve got all kinds of options, whether you’re in the car or travelling overseas. The BlackBerry® Wireless Headset HS-700 makes multitasking easier. So you can keep the conversation on track while your hands are free to drive safely through traffic, send a message or balance the tray of coffee you’re bringing back for your friends. To top it off, it’s one headset that’s good looking and reliable. If you do lots of presentations, BlackBerry® Presenter is one more way to lighten your load. About the size of a deck of cards, BlackBerry Presenter lets you show PowerPoint® presentations while your smartphone lets you navigate slides with ease and view your speaker’s notes. So when it’s time to make the pitch, share the big idea or train your team in the branch office, leave the laptop behind and still make your presentation with style and confidence.

Box Contains

BlackBerry Bold 9780 smartphone

Rechargable Battery

Charger

USB Cable

Polishing Cloth

Quick Start Guide

BlackBerry User Tools CD

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136 of 140 people found the following review helpful

Blackberry doing what it does best, almost. 16 Dec 2010

By J. Potter TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE

Colour Name:Black

I have been using Blackberrys now for a number of years and tried all the different types. It is part of my job to find the ones that work for the business. That always used to be a given for Blackberrys but sadly no more.

The Blackberry products come in two core flavours. The Bold which are the higher end devices and the Curve which typically are more workmanlike. Of course there are also the RIM touchscreen offerings and while the latest Torch is an improvement over the mostly dire Storms, it is still clunky, looks gunmetal retro and weighs a lot in your bag or jacket pocket.

So here we are with the Bold 9780, a slightly revamped version of the 9700. It feels great in hand, small enough to be used practically as a phone but light and solid at the same time. The build quality you expect of the Bold range. The key change is in the OS, the 9780 sports the RIM OS6 which contains lots of sliding menu's and a webkit browser, which is a huge improvement over its old offering. There is also more memory and a bigger camera.

The real deciding factor is OS6. Is it better than OS5? Yes it is. Is it that much better? Not really. It is still limited and the OS6 is still a little buggy and often slow. Anyone that makes a comparison or claim that it is better than the iPhone is quite frankly off their head. The Bold is a pretty take on the classic Blackberry although with a great camera. I dislike the Bold keyboard intensely, my fingers keep sliding off the sloped keys. I much prefer the flat scrabble style keys of the Curve, but then you cannot get a Curve with the touchpad and good camera. Why RIM never just upgraded the brilliant Curve Javelin (8900 - great camera but flawed rollerball navigation) with a touchpad I would love to know.

If you are a fan of the Bold line then this is going to keep on pleasing you. If you are new to Blackberry and are looking for a stylish device as a central point for managing your various emails, this will do the job very well. The Curve would be my preferred Blackberry for the keyboard but none in the range have a good camera. If you want a good camera you need the Bold. If you are looking for versatile apps to improve your everyday and email as an aside then this is not the stop for you. You should check out the HTC Android phones (brilliant) or iPhone (brilliant if it was not tethered to one computer and itunes!)

Update May 2011: This is still my favourite 3G Blackberry device currently on the market. The Curve 8900 remains my all time favourite but is 2G and has a track ball which can get sticky. The camera on this Bold 9780 is great(in context to mobile cameras), with pictures very acceptable when viewed on larger computer screens. I have got used to OS 6 although rely mostly on the brilliant keyboard shortcuts anyway (so seldom use the menus). Like I have said, Blackberrys are the best stop for anyone wanting to manage email on one device, especially if you need to respond on the move. I also use Twitter and Facebook here as well which work well. There are only two real downsides to this phone from my perspective. 1) The new browser is much better than the old one but you are going to struggle with any website that is not specifically designed for small screens. It does a much better job of making the content readable but it is still a pain. 2) My biggest problem though remains the keyboard. The keys are sloped and my fingers often slip off them making longer emails frustrating sometimes. This sloped key design was popular on the bigger devices but just does not work on the smaller devices where the scrabble style flat keys are much better.

I hope this review was helpful to you.

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful

Excellent choice 26 Feb 2011

By Ms. L. Eldridge

Colour Name:White

Having spent the last few years using an LG Cookie (touchscreen) I wanted a phone that was easier to type with and with easy to use internet services...the 9780 was perfect.

I had been warned that the keyboard used with the Bold might be hard to use because there are no gaps between the keys, but I found very quickly that this wasn't a problem. The way the keys are tilted is very useful when typing with two hands (not quite as easy when composing an email or text with one hand, but if you're opting for a full keyboard on a phone then you would expect to be able to type faster if you have two hands covering the span of the keys).

The camera on this phone is excellent, to the point that if I had anticipated buying this phone more in advance I might not have spent so much money a couple of months ago on a Lumix. Obviously there is a difference between a 5mp camera and one that has 14mp, but I'm not a skilled photographer and consider the photos I take on my 9780 to be good enough to be worth uploading onto facebook in high resolution alongside those from the Lumix without them really standing out as lower in quality.

More generally, the internet, apps and other features are very easy to use, and it took me no time at all to set up my email accounts and add contacts for blackberry messenger. Of course much of this is dependent on whether or not your area has good signal coverage (its a bit hit and miss where I am) but I have found that web pages load in around 5 seconds.

I was also quite pleased with what was included in the box; many of the devices I have purchased over the years have come without wall chargers or a screen protector etc so I was glad to find them included with the Blackberry.

In conclusion, I adore this phone. It's easy to use, well designed, and looks very classy in white. Thoroughly recommend it to anyone looking for a phone with the kind of features the 9780 can provide.

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful

Excellent buisness phone 28 Dec 2010

By Allan Macintyre

Bought this phone Sim Free from Amazon UK. This is my first Blackberry phone.
I bought it mainly for the relative ease of e-mail and messenger communication and for this its fantastic. Extremly easy to set up and operate with very smooth and slick Track Pad.
Who needs touch phone when its as slick as this. I can text and e-mail one handed or two. Good camera and I have my wallpaper on 22" PC with pic from the phone. Music is great and as good as my previous Apple 3g and N95 before that. And your not burdened with rip off i-tunes.
While the keyboard is very good, its not as good as 9300. Shame. Still better than a touch phone as I've tried them both and this is much easier to use.
Downside is the relativley small screen and if your doing a lot of internet use and watching videos I'd recommend something else.

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