
Like the Blackberry 8320 Curve, the Blackberry 9000 Bold is marvelous additions to Rim’s portfolio of Blackberry smart phones. Blackberry has always been in news for its business mobile phones but now Nokia is also trying its hand for designing business phones. Blackberry 9000 Bold and Nokia E71 both are business focused phones offered by Blackberry and Nokia.
The Blackberry 9000 has BlackBerry operating system, HTML browser and comes with built-in GPS with BlackBerry Maps. Here you will get 2 MP camera with Flash and Camera Settings. Don’t expect video calling by it as there is no videocall camera has been given.The latter one has Symbian 9.2 operating system, HTML & XHTML Browser and Nokia Browser with Mini Maps.Here you will find the GPS feature with Nokia Maps.It will provide 3.2 MP camera with Digital Zoom and LED Flash etc. Another videocall camera has been also given to facilitate video calling facility.
Both of the devices are comprised with full QWERTY keyboard and the display of Blackberry 9000 Bold is 2.6 inches with resolution of 480 x 320 pixels that displays 65k colours. The widget overall weighs 133 grams and its casing measures 14mm deep, 66mm wide by 114mm tall. Also it has Trackball navigation feature. And 2.3 inches QVGA screen of Nokia E71 allows 16 Million colours at 320 x 240 Pixels resolution as well as comes with Five-way scroll key. It measures 114 x 57 x 10 mm and the weight is 127 grams. You can view and edit the office documents in many formats by using both of the widgets.
These widgets let the users allow expanding up to 8GB memory but the internal memory of Blackberry 9000 Bold is 1 GB storage while the internal memory of its competitor is of 110 MB storage and both of these contain 128 MB RAM. Besides, SMS, MMS, Email and instant messaging can be sent from both of the rivals but in addition, Nokia has given some extra power to its phone with the presence of Email (POP, IMAP & SMTP), Email with Attachment, Text to Speech Message Reader and Distribution List. 3G HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth A2DP and USB are presented on both of the contenders but additionally, Nokia E71 also offers Infrared and HSCSD as well.
How about the combat between the Blackberry 8320 Curve and the Blackberry 9000?
Software
Both phones use the same software as their operating system namely Rim’s 4.6 OS. The operating system functions smoothly in both phones without intermittent hangs/lockups. The interface on both phones is graphically rich.
Multimedia facets
The Blackberry 8320 Curve’s 3.2 Mega pixel camera is endowed with auto focus, geo tagging facility, image stabilization attribute and an LED Flash for a perfect shot. The Blackberry 9000 Bold with its 2 Mega pixel camera is imperceptible before the 8900′s camera. It is equipped with an LED flash. Its image quality is lower when compared to the Curve’s camera. The cameras of both phones have video recording capability. Both phones support many games and allow downloading of additional games onto the phone as well.
Both phones have a media player to manage audio and video. While the media player of the 8320 Curve can support audio file formats like MP3/AAC/AAC+/WMA , the Blackberry 9000 Bold can support only MP3/WMA/AAC+ audio file formats. The media player of the Curve supports DivX/XviD/MPEG4/WMV video file formats in comparison to the DivX/WMV/XviD/3gp formats supported by the Bold’s media player.
Both phones have Blue tooth connectivity, USB ports and a 3.5mm audio socket for enhanced listening experience. Both phones have html browsers for a superior internet experience. While both phones sport Wi Fi technology for internet connectivity at hot spots and at home; the Bold has a 3G HSDPA which is absent in the Curve.
More Features
The Curve comes with a superior 256MB RAM that blows away the 128 MB RAM sported by the 9000 Bold. The 8320 has a standby time of 356 hours and a talk time of 5 hours 30 minutes in contrast to the lesser stand by time of 310 hours and talk time of 5 hours offered by the 9000.
However the Blackberry Bold has a faster processor (624 MHz) in comparison to the Curve’s (512 MHz) which lets you keep many applications open concurrently.
The blackberry 9000 also has a voice memo and document editor attribute which is absent in the Blackberry 8320 Curve. Both phones have GPS facility to support their Google Maps and Blackberry Maps application. The Blackberry Curve has more functional facets than the Blackberry Bold, and makes a better choice.
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