BlackBerry Bold 9700

price, usability, sound, design, performance

83% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

usability, price, portability, performance, design

reliability, screen, size, connectivity

64% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

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86% der Kundenmeinungen auf Amazon.de bewerten dieses Produkt positiv.

100% des avis sur Amazon.fr donnent une note favorable à ce produit.

80% di recensioni su Amazon.it attribuiscono a questo prodotto una valutazione positiva.

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Sleek, compact design, bright and vivid display, comfortable keyboard, 3.5mm headphone jack, great integration of Facebook, trackpad works well

Smaller display and keypad than its predecessor, sluggish scrolling, Web browser remains inferior to alternatives

RIM's latest BlackBerry Bold remains a great business smartphone and is a sleeker and more compact device than the original Bold. The compact size results in a smaller keyboard and display, though, which power users may not appreciate. There is plenty...

2.44" 65K-color TFT landscape display with a resolution of 480 x 360 pixels ; Comfortable four-row full QWERTY keyboard ; Quad-band GSM support and tri-band 3G with HSDPA ; Wi-Fi and built-in GPS and BlackBerry maps preloaded ; 3.15 autofocus megapixel...

Many features are locked without a BlackBerry Internet Service account (plan) ; Mediocre camera performance and features ; No FM radio ; No video-call camera ; No TV-out functionality ; No built-in accelerometer ; No built-in compass

These high expectations have quite often turned otherwise decent handsets into a byword for failure. It's simply not enough to provide incremental improvements when upgrading an iconic handset. The iPhone somehow gets away with that, but Apple usually...

The Blackberry Bold 9700 may not have quite the distinctive style of the Bold 9000 but in every other sense it's a worthy successor. It's well made, feels nice in the hand, has a great screen and keyboard, and the new optical trackpad is at least equal...

Great optical trackpad ; Improved camera performance ; Snappier operation

Outdated operating system ; Slightly cheaper build than its predecessor ; Keyboard is more cramped than the original

Near-perfect design. Beautiful display. Great voice quality. Robust media sync options. Excellent battery life.

Middling browser. Buggy video player. Lacks the T-Mobile version's unlimited Wi-Fi calling.

Camera and Conclusions The 3.2-megapixel camera—up from the Bold 9000's 2 megapixels—includes image stabilization, auto-focus, and an LED flash. Test results were more or less identical to the Storm2 's on Verizon. Photos were reasonably sharp and well...

Speedy interface ; Smooth controls ; Stylish chassis

Slow internet browser ; Dating OS ; Slightly cramped keyboard

A great phone that once again leads the BlackBerry pack. Almost certain to be a bigger hit than the first Bold, and that's saying something

Excellent form factor. Razor-sharp screen. Wi-Fi calling. Good keyboard. Solid call quality.

Browser still needs help. Not a big jump up from earlier models.

Conclusions The BlackBerry Bold 9700 isn't as radical or innovative as our Editors' Choice, the Motorola CLIQ . But if you're looking to make Wi-Fi calls for free from any hotspot you can find, the CLIQ is out of the picture. The BlackBerry Curve 8900...

Excellent, ergonomic keyboard ; Attractive, slimmed-down design

Camera is just average ; Browser can't compete with other top phones

The best BlackBerry available, the Bold 9700 packs a multitude of features into a sophisticated, slimmed-down design.