Recently Rim announced their first Smartphone with a full touch screen and QWERTY keyboard. Equipped with a precision trackpad, slide out blackberry keyboard and an excellent high resolution screen the blackberry 9800 is a brilliant addition to the blackberry 9 series. Spec wise the phone is quite standard in comparison to other Smartphone’s these days as it sits with a 512mb ram/512mb rom and 4GB micro SD included. It has a 5MP camera, with a autofocus and led flash and a 360x480 resolution touch screen (similar to the 9700) and also uses the now standard blackberry optical trackpad. Now I’m not generally a blackberry fan although I do recognise them as excellent phones, its just I don’t see how different blackberry’s email capabilities are that different to any standard Smartphone now-a-days. Although one thing I always liked about Rim is their ability to show some diversity in their handsets with the likes of the Pearl 3G and the 8520. The pearl is one of those slim, stylish and suave devices that emulates allot of contrast between itself and other blackberry handsets. It is an extreme upgrade from the original and thank God they took away the QWERTY keyboard, it just didn’t work on such a small handset. The phone is really a great phone experience although what separates it from other blackberry devices is that the form factor doesn’t allow it to be held in just one hand. A great thing about blackberry’s is that you can pull out your phone and send a quick text or email using one hand, but the new bigger design on the 9800 doesn’t allow that. The new blackberry 6 software is designed to provide a fluid interface to its users to give a more dynamic experience and it does just that. It seems that the main improvements or changes to the software is that there is allot more freedom to explore the handset and blackberry has put their hands in a few pockets to pull out some features that are present in other mobile operating systems such as android and ios4.
Also with the new software the browser issues have been drastically improved, which really was needed because a pointer system for a browser just doesn’t work any more, and with the majority of blackberry users complaining about it, it’s about time that they fixed it. overall in my opinion i think the handset will be a win, it just looks incredible and with this kind of software and hardware its bound to be a business favourite.
The handset will be available soon on 3UK, Orange and Vodaphone.
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