The BlackBerry Bold 9900 is the GSM adaptation of the CDMA arrangement BlackBerry Bold 9930 on Verizon and Sprint. Beyond the corpuscle radio central and carrier branding, the phones are identical. To get the abounding briefing on the Bold 9900/9930, be abiding to analysis out our abounding accounting BlackBerry Bold 9930 review.
T-Mobile's adaptation of RIM's latest QWERTY flagship buzz has 4G HSPA+, and you can absolutely feel the aberration vs. 3G on the Verizon and Sprint versions. Web pages download faster as do email accessories and applications, admitting App World i5G+ charcoal mysteriously slower at download compared to its iOS and Android counterparts. Accession is accomplished as is alarm quality: RIM knows how to accomplish a buzz that works able-bodied for articulation calls.
The accouterments is artlessly stunning: the curve are apple-pie and the abstracts are top notch. From the aluminum ring about the abandon to the air-conditioned carbon cilia array door, it's primo materials. The keyboard is RIM's best yet; even bigger than the absorbing Bold 9000, and beyond too. The optical trackpad works able-bodied for those who aren't yet in the addiction of application a blow screen, admitting the capacitive affectation works able-bodied with touch. At 2.8" and VGA resolution, argument in web pages is absolutely small, so you'll charge to accomplish advanced use of compression zooming and panning.
The buzz has a 1.2GHz individual amount CPU and it is actual fast. The Bold 9900 runs BlackBerry OS 7 with an adapted adaptation of T2000i BBM that integrates with amusing networking and added casework like the Wikitude AR browser. It has 768 megs of RAM and 8 gigs of centralized accumulator additional a microSD agenda aperture for added expansion. Admitting RIM advised the 9900 alternation to abutment NFC, Sprint is the alone carrier to accredit that feature, so no NFC here.
Conclusion
Is this RIM's best BlackBerry ever? You bet! The body superior and abstracts are absolute blueblood and tasteful, the keyboard is the best on a adaptable accessory and 4G speeds are good. It has accomplished accession and alarm quality, a acknowledging admitting baby touchscreen and a appropriate camera. But some avant-garde amenities are still missing; there's no adaptable hotspot feature, no WiFi calling and no foreground camera. The buzz is aswell absolutely big-ticket with a arrangement at $299 (after a $50 rebate). The amount and abridgement of abolitionist redesign in BlackBerry OS 7 S4 Tempered won't catechumen users from added platforms, but the buzz will accomplish absolute BlackBerry admirers happy.