Smiling the grand Blackberry smile, the 9650 on first look, reminds you of the year old BlackBerry Bold 9700. This mobile phone supports the CDMA/EVDO networks in North America and the GSM/UMTS networks elsewhere. Design-wise, the BlackBerry Bold 9650 is a replica of the 9700 – it has a 2.44” display with a glossy black finish and a few stylish chrome highlights and the usual full QWERTY keypad.
This BlackBerry kin has an optical trackpad and also comes with built-in Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, not to mention Bluetooth 2.1. The 9650 sports a 3.2 MP camera with all the goodies such as flash, image stabilization, video recording, auto focus, built-in GPS and geo-tagging thrown in. This Blackberry smartphone also houses a full HTML web browser, the BlackBerry Media Sync, which as we know is simply wonderful to play with. Using it, you can sync all your favourite Windows Media® Player music and iTunes music in no time.
The BlackBerry Bold 9650 Mobile Phone also supports BlackBerry® Messenger and push email which can come in handy at times. The handset has an internal flash memory of about 512 MB which can of course be expanded using microSD cards. (The device ships with a 2 GB card.) All sounds good, but we cannot help but feel a little bored with the 9650 – there’s nothing all that path breaking about it. Is it old wine in a new bottle? (Even the bottle isn’t bran new!) It can’t be denied that Blackberry has added a few sparks here and there, forgive us, but is that all?
This smartphone of Blackberry’s will be available in the US on Sprint from May 23 for an equivalent of £130 after a £65 mail-in rebate. We don’t have any info on a UK launch as yet, though.
