Research In Motion Introduces the New BlackBerry Bold 9790 Smartphone in Thailand

Research In Motion (RIM) announced the new BlackBerry® Bold™ 9790 smartphone for customers in Thailand.

The powerful BlackBerry Bold 9790 features a compact design and offers users a fully loaded, high performance smartphone with the dual benefits of a high resolution touch display and a highly tactile keyboard. The new smartphone is expected to be available in Thailand on 16 December through authorized partners.

"The BlackBerry Bold 9790 is highly anticipated here in Thailand and we expect customers will love this sleek and compact new BlackBerry 7 smartphone, which delivers an outstanding mix of communications, multimedia, productivity and social connectivity features," said Nicholas Horton, Vice President of Indochina at RIM.

True to the BlackBerry Bold brand, the new BlackBerry Bold 9790 smartphone is powerful, full-featured and built with premium materials and finishes. It combines a high-resolution and highly responsive touch display with a highly tactile keyboard and a precise optical trackpad, yet comes in a narrow design that is easy to carry and exceptionally comfortable to hold. With the BlackBerry® 7 OS and powerful 1 GHz processor, the BlackBerry Bold 9790 delivers fast, smooth performance for browsing the web, running apps, working with documents, and enjoying multimedia. It includes 8GB of onboard memory and an expandable memory card slot that supports up to 32 GB of additional storage.

BlackBerry 7 also introduces an enhanced browser that provides a significantly faster, more fluid web browsing experience. The browser includes a new JIT (just in time) JavaScript compiler to improve the load time speed of web pages and it offers optimized HTML5 performance for incredible gaming and video experiences. The popular universal search capability has also been enhanced with support for voice-activated search, so users can simply speak to begin searching their device and the web for information.

The BlackBerry Bold 9790 smartphone includes built-in support for Augmented Reality and NFC, allowing users to connect with the world around them in fresh new ways. With the Wikitude Augmented Reality application, users can find nearby BBM™ (BlackBerry® Messenger) contacts in real-time, read reviews on restaurants close to them, or get the story behind an interesting landmark and points of interest. NFC also enables many new and exciting capabilities, including the ability to make mobile payments, pair accessories or read SmartPoster tags with a simple tap of the smartphone.

-- The Nation 2011-12-01

:boring:...-_-

Is this a sponsored review ?

Once you find out you need to pay 300bht a month to use the deliberately restricted data services that all the other phones can access for free, you won't want one.

Wonder how this is considerably different than the 9900 that just came out....

I took a good look at that model and was not overly impressed.