While the design of the Bold 9780 may perhaps possibly be fairly acquainted, the brand new BlackBerry six OS is also pretty familiar.

There is some thing excellent about the handset's Qwerty keyboard along with the fulfilling design. So when the Bold 9780 was announced, we were understandably excited, if just a little perplexed. It's so comparable to the Bold 9700 - what is the stage of it? A minor refresh it may possibly be, but worthy of a appear in its personal right.

Ah, swoon. The total Qwerty keyboard on the entrance of the handset is just as good as that about the BlackBerry Bold 9700. It's effortless to generate use of, the angled keys providing enough differentiation that once you develop to become accustomed to the small layout you will be tapping out tens of phrases per minute. The BlackBerry Bold 9780 ships working BlackBerry OS 6 which we very first saw to the BlackBerry Torch 9800. It offers us entry to our favorite programs from your home display screen, too as an updated media player and browser.

Scroll suitable about the Navigation Bar and you will get to Favourites, to which you can manually add the items you utilize most. Improved media functionality is a massive push of BlackBerry 6, and that is demonstrated by the reality that Media now will get its extremely own choice about the Navigation Bar, in the direction of the right of Favourites. Here you will come across everything from music playback to voice recording and ringtones.

Once we think about portrait style keyboards, the 1st thing that immediately pops up in our minds would be the ones made available by RIM. Once more, the Bold 9780 employs the precise same equivalent keyboard from its predecessor and functions practically flawlessly with its distinguishable buttons and tactile responsiveness. Even though people with larger fingers will need to cope with the small sized buttons, it's still undeniably useable proper after an adjustment interval.

Now, we're enormous fans of this new layout. It feels both usable and potent you want by no signifies contact, say, the accessibility level to the connectivity settings if you're not into that sort of tinkering, but it's speedily available if you may be. Nevertheless, these enhancements genuinely feel a lot more suited to a touchscreen than the optical trackpad about the Bold 9780. Being able to just faucet the top-left to obtain to the ringer options, or swipe left and right to go between the Navigation Bar's 'trays' would be far more intuitive than scrolling up and then across to where you should be.

The display screen is actually small by today's specifications - especially provided the BlackBerry Torch's comparatively large 3.2in display screen. Media nonetheless is not fantastic - we do appreciate the updates towards the media player but it is nonetheless not on the par with the iPhone's iPod system, for example. Video clip capture and playback also leaves some thing to be desired - especially on the teeny tiny display screen.

Being the 3rd BlackBerry handset to launch in the US with OS 6, which is the latest version of RIM's cellular platform, it surprisingly functions well for a non-touch handset. Partly as being a outcome of its 624 MHz processor and 512MB of RAM, navigating throughout the platform is effortlessly accomplished seeing that it is more than responsive in moving about and opening applications. We have gone about the interface in depth with our BlackBerry Torch 9800 evaluate, but we're nonetheless surprised the platform is so attuned to to function on both contact and non-touch gadgets.

But when you're looking for a BlackBerry and do not fancy the touchscreen stylings with the Torch 9800, then it is undoubtedly well worth a appear. Making use of the latest OS and hardware characteristics which have been optimised to take advantage in the software's complete potential.