Although the system is not comparable to gaming platform, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 is a unique model on its smartphone platform.
Apple and Samsung has its dispute and the IP injunction is in place in Germany and throughout Europe except for the Netherlands.
RIM definitely is in a different development paths and cannot be compared with Android and iOS Device. There is no Jailbreak and Root available for BlackBerry compared to both Android and iOS where it shows that BlackBerry has no flaw or incorrect programming to Android and iOS!!
I still prefer BlackBerry Bold compared to Samsung or HTC running Android!!
Apple iOS Device is too expensive for what I could still achieve on my BlackBerry!
By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor
Last Updated: 10:57PM BST 18/08/2011
BlackBerry has made its best smartphone to date with the Bold 9900 – but the market has never been more competitive and other devices still outstrip it
The new BlackBerry Bold 9900 is a beautiful piece of engineering: it feels solid, expensive even, with its metal rim round the edge and its carbon fibre-esque backing panel. The keyboard is as good as a physical keyboard can get. The camera, the speakers, everything impresses and feels right. Turn it on and the vivid, bright screen looks as good as any on the market, iPhone included, and the touchscreen is responsive.
And the software, version seven for those who keep count of BlackBerry OS, is rather good. It renders web pages with speed and accuracy, email and BBM is as robust as ever. But that, in the age of Windows Phone, iOS and Android is simply not good enough.
The Bold's screen may be lovely but it is too small to do justice to anything. Its app store is called App World, but BlackBerry's world, like its share price, is shrinking fast in comparison to its rivals. Who would build apps for this platform, when the company's own PlayBook tablet already uses a new operating system, and all of its other forthcoming devices are set to do the same?
The 9900 uses a 1.2GHz, single-core Snapdragon CPU and has 768MB of memory along with 8GB of storage. The effect is to make the software on the device as good as it can be: everything from an almost imperceptible shutter lag on the camera to the speed with which menus appear or documents can be edited is excellent. And yet that's not enough either.
Use any Android or iOS device and the flexibility of a modern operating system is immediately apparent: the vast numbers of apps or widgets makes them feel like so much more than a mobile phone with email and the internet. Any user of Boris Johnson's London cycle hire scheme has, via their mobile, access to immediate information on where the nearest bike is, for instance. These devices can be life enhancing; the Bold's simply a lovely, somewhat enhanced phone. From a few years ago.
But there's hope for BlackBerry: they can make hardware this good and they've got a new OS in the works. If the two mesh well together and the firm doesn't go totally to pot in the meantime, it will be BlackBerry v Windows v Android v Apple. And for that completion, consumers should all give much thanks.
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