Yesterday RIM has officially announced via its Twitter account that the next-gen BlackBerry OS 7 will be revealed and that the first devices to be powered by this OS will also be unveiled. The best partner for RIM has always been Verizon and if users go to the BlackBerry 9650 website at the Big Red and then click Explore Features, then there’s a surprise waiting for them. Instead of exploring the features of the Bold 9650, you will be actually exploring the goodies of the BlackBerry Bold 9930 which hasn’t been released yet.
The guy in the video confirms that the BlackBerry Bold 9930 is powered by a single-core 1.2 GHz CPU, a 2.8-inch multitouch display with pinch to zoom support and a dubbed high resolution, BlackBerry 7 operating system, BlackBerry App World support, 5-megapixel camera on the back with 720p HD video recording, flash, and autofocus, the largest QWERTY keyboard ever on a BlackBerry smartphone, and a new WebKit browser among others.
These specs really sound nice and it will definitely become the best BlackBerry smartphone ever released, but I doubt that BlackBerry Messenger 6 is a killer feature and that BlackBerry 7 OS will be appealing to the high-end users because this is where RIM should compete.
RIM’s problem is that it’s too late to a party where Apple and Android phones are “bossing.” If the BlackBerry Bold 9930 would have become available early last year, then the story would have been entirely different and the BlackBerry smartphone market share wouldn’t have dropped dramatically. Both iOS and Android have overcome BlackBerry on the smartphone market and it doesn’t seem like this will end as Google is activating more than 500,000 devices daily.
According to the video, the BlackBerry Bold 9930 is the thinnest BlackBerry smartphone ever and it’s coming to a Verizon store near you very soon. BlackBerry fans should be really excited about this smartphone so it wouldn’t be fair to rule it out from the big war just yet so stay tuned cause we’re going to let you know as soon as the handset will be officially unveiled.
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