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Technical Details

1.2 GHz processor and 8GB of expandable memory
Sleek, high-end, and loaded with the ultimate tools, the thinnest, sleekest BlackBerry smartphone yet
BlackBerry 7 OS has been powerfully enhanced
Communicate and interact like never before with the fluid touch screen
Immediate access to Location-Based Services such as the sights and amenities in your local area

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Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 1 x 6.6 cm ; 132 g
Boxed-product Weight: 907 g
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Item model number: BB 9900
ASIN: B0058GWR8O
Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 21 Jun 2011

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (58 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 68 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
- #6 in Electronics > Phones > Mobile Phones & Communication > SIM-free Mobile Phones & Smartphones

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Manufacturer's Description

BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 smartphone

The 10.5mm, thinnest—ever, distinguished BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 smartphone provides ultimate choice, with an iconic QWERTY keyboard 6% larger than previous BlackBerry Bold devices, a 24—bit high resolution touch screen, and a precision—based optical trackpad.

The BlackBerry Bold 9900 is loaded with power and performance

At a glance

The distinctive BlackBerry Bold smartphone combines premium materials, purposeful detailing, and best—in—class workmanship with sophisticated BlackBerry® performance. New BlackBerry® 7 OS drives that performance by providing 40% faster browsing with the fastest engine ever in a BlackBerry device. BlackBerry 7 also provides new technologies like proprietary Liquid Graphics™ technology, which allows for fluid navigation and faster response times on your high—res touch screen. It also supports incredible new experiences like NFC, Augmented Reality — enabled using new digital compass and accelerometer for more precise, real—time information — and voice activated universal search, which is the only on—device search tool in the industry to reach out to the web to find exactly what you’re looking for… add to all that a 1.2 GHz processor, 8GB of onboard memory (that you can expand with a media card), HSPA+, high—speed worldphone connectivity, HD video recording, dual—band Wi—Fi®, and so much more. The BlackBerry Bold 9900 is the performance—driven smartphone with sophisticated style, for those who pursue the best of the best.

Style Complements Substance

The distinctive BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 smartphone is absolutely feature—packed with technologies while remaining the thinnest BlackBerry smartphone — ever — at a remarkably slim 10.5mm. For you, this means a lightweight, sleek device that fits beautifully in the palm of your hand, while maintaining advanced functionality and uncompromised performance.

Let your information find you

You're busy making things happen. And that means you don’t have time to waste. Like all BlackBerry smartphones, the premium BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 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 — let it all come to you. Fast. It’s just one more way your distinguished BlackBerry smartphone helps you deliver your best performance, every time.

BlackBerry 7 offers outstanding multimedia functions and full HD 720p video recording capabilities

Breakthrough Technologies and Powerful Performance

Liquid Graphics—Enjoy instant response times, smoother rendering, fluid animations, and stunning graphical display with new Liquid Graphics. The combination of a blazing—fast CPU, powerful graphics processing, and the 24—bit high—res brilliant display on your BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone make it all possible. Add to all this the absolute fastest Javascript loading experience ever on any smartphone, and you’ve got a serious breakthrough on your hands. Voice—activated universal search: The most powerful on—device search has gone hands free. With speech—to—text translation, you can now search for files, emails, contacts, music, and more—all without typing a thing. Still missing a crucial detail? Use it to comb through everything on your BlackBerry® smartphone or even to search the web, and find the key piece that brings it all together. Fast BlackBerry Browser: With page load times an incredible 40% faster than BlackBerry® 6, seamless panning and zooming, and better web-based video and gaming, new BlackBerry® 7 browser provides a seamless loading, scrolling, zooming experience that’s all yours —thanks to the highest fidelity renderer, HTML5 video support, and spot-on, industry-leading JavaScript performance. So browse the web, get projects done quickly, and check out your friends’ newly posted videos on Facebook, faster and with ease, thanks to the new BlackBerry browser. HD video recording and pictures: Leave your digital camera behind, and start recording HD videos and take crisp pictures— anywhere you go. BlackBerry® 7 offers outstanding multimedia functions and full HD 720p video recording capabilities. Also, once you’ve finished recording or taking pictures, you can upload right to Facebook® or sync to your BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet with BlackBerry® Desktop Software. So record or shoot away, and be there to capture every moment.

Build your world

Explore the sleek new BlackBerry® App World™ storefront: a world of inspiration awaits you. Discover incredible apps that give you easy access to all the information you want or need, and find new ways to amplify your productivity. Then, kick back for some you time by easily personalizing your BlackBerry® smartphone and finding the hottest games and entertainment apps that help you stay connected with the people who matter most.

Accessorize to personalize your smartphone

Enjoy a ton of accessories — including NFC—enabled BlackBerry® Music Gateway and the new BlackBerry Wireless Headset HS— 700. Personalize your sophisticated BlackBerry® Bold™ smartphone and make it your own with advanced accessories.

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BlackBerry Bold 9900 Sim Free Smartphone - Black

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82 of 85 people found the following review helpful

A triumph for Blackberry 24 Aug 2011

By Mrs. Jo Anne Davies

Colour Name:Black

Having received the new Blackberry Bold 9900 today I am happy to report that most of the major flaws of the previous Bold family have been fixed. The web browser is snappy and responsive, the touchscreen is easy to use, fluid and a delight (no doubt because of the Snapdragon CPU). The phone is very thin for a Blackberry and the fact that it's got a touchscreen as well is particularly impressive given the brick-like feel of the Torch. The camera is a huge step forward from the camera in my old 9700, however, it still has a way to go to match up to the superior iPhone 4 camera (and most likely the iPhone 5 that is forthcoming). The major strength, as always with Blackberry, is the keyboard which is a return to form. The keyboard is the same size and feel that we had in the old Bold 9000 and it's fantastic!

For Blackberry users, the Bold 9900 is amazing and represents a great deal of engineering and research by RIM to produce a phone that is functional, stylish and a joy to use. For users of iPhone and Android however, RIM has yet to make a phone which is as comprehensive or as forward thinking as iOS and Android are. RIM has a ready made consumer pool for its phones; we all love Blackberrys and I personally wouldn't move to another manufacturer. However, RIM fails to develop phones that will make users want to switch from Android or iOS and that's where the money is. It is my feeling that although the Bold 9900 is a huge step forward, anyone switching from iOS or Android will most likely miss some of the features they've come to know and love in their previous platform.

I highly recommend this phone to anyone with an older Blackberry - get it and you won't look back. For iOS and Android users I'd recommend borrowing a friend's phone to test drive it first because you'll either love Blackberry or think it's antiquated and a touch passé.

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful

Great Berry 4 Sep 2011

By DetlevCM

Colour Name:Black

In Spring 2007 I got my very first BlackBerry after a 9 month break from a mobile phone... (broken Sony Ericsson - design flaw... broken internal cable in folding mechanism) 3 years and about 7 months that device was responsible for my communication - it suffered several drops, once took a bath in mineral water... and worked flawlessly - with just a few scratches to show from the drops (onto tarmac).

This year, I decided to get a new Berry - the Bold 9900.

So far I must say I am extremely pleased with the device - the case is firm with no squeaky parts (as for example the back on the 9800). The weight is nice and suits the device, though it feels hefty compared to its size.

Coming from a Pearl 8120, I did take a short while to get used to the keyboard - also changing from qwertz to qwerty, but once you have spent a few days on it, you'll be very fast at typing. It is a marvellous keyboard - in fact, that was the key point that made me upgrade my old phone to the new Bold (in contrast I don't like the 9800).
BlackBerry Bold users are possibly immediately at home on it - other keyboard users will learn to love it very quickly - provided they know the computer keyboard layout.

Personally I am a strong opponent of touchscreens - especially if they are the only input method. Considering that full control is possible with just the trackpad, the touchscreen is a nice addition for those few cases where it does become useful - e.g. flipping between BlackBerry Messenger chats.
Also as far as I can tell it is perfectly responsive.

The next point that has been pointed out in reviews is the snappyness of the OS - the Bold is fast, very fast. Using several apps at the same time, flicking between them, I did not get an hourglass at all.
Overall a nice step up from my old BlackBerry where I had to wait for a response every now and then - so users of multiple applications should not be limited by the phone's capabilities.

Having said this - the browser is fast and smooth in its controls. If you look into the depth of the options you will find that it can use up to 46MB of RAM (just checked) - making it possibly the key RAM user besides the OS itself - still, that leaves plenty of free RAM on your phone. For mine specifically, it is 369MB of free RAM. Keep in mind please that is may sound as if it is using a lot of RAM, but 256MB of RAM are reserved for the GPU, leaving 512MB of RAM for the OS - which is more than enough, considering I have over 300 remaining free MB.

Lastly - battery life:
Under most heavy use I have managed to empty the batter in about half a day - but that was pretty much nonstop use of the browser, BBM, documents to go (supports MS Office and Adobe PDF, the later for reading), the SMS function as well as phone calls, running Wi-Fi and the 3G connection all the time.
Oh, and some maps usage too - which works very well by the way for a pedestrian.
On a more normal use this phone lasts through the day without issues and charge left over.

Overall if you like BlackBerys, this is possibly the phone for you, also if you want an efficient tool.
I am completely happy with my decision - while I feel sorry to let my Pearl go, the new Bold should, at least for me, make my life a little bit easier.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Best of both worlds 13 Dec 2011

By Jacobus de Blemund

Colour Name:Black

It is so good to back on a BlackBerry after two years on an iPhone. This is the best of both worlds: fast processor, reliable email, good signal, reasonable battery life, touchscreen and qwerty. Despite so much bad press, RIM has done a great job with this device and it is light years ahead of my old Curve 8300, especially things like reading PDFs and editing Word docs. It just, as they say, works. I have teamed it up with a PlayBook they work very nicely together.

But quality control isn't great. My first one was DOA, and sat on my desk connected to the charger doing nothing but displaying the "invalid battery" icon, even though the battery that I inserted was of course the one that came in the box. Apparently this is a known issue.

This one also has the "issue" that some people are complaining about: the squeaky trackpad! I hadn't really noticed it until I read it on a forum and thought "yeh, I suppose mine squeaks too". I solved it with a little Vaseline around the trackpad. Don't return yours without trying this first as it isn't really a fault.

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