Those Blackberry phones are some of the most popular smart phones in the market today is in no doubt. The manufacturers of smart phones keep churning new, more complicated and even ‘smarter’ every now and then. For an average person who is not a tech nerd, this can be really confusing. Which phone is better? Should I buy a new one now? Should I buy the Blackberry Bold 9700 or Blackberry Bold 9780 models? How are they different? How are they similar? Hopefully at the end of this article the record will have been set straight, the choice will ultimately be yours.

The Blackberry phones are a witty mix of business with pleasure without compromising either. Some say, the phones’ disapprove an old adage that the two cannot be mixed. I agree. Blackberry Bold has a sharp clean black look. Its black leather back, shiny metallic boarders make you just want to hold it and never let it go. The bold as it has come to be known, is the largest yet very lightest black berry phone ever built or should I say ever since the 8700.Though large the Blackberry Bold, its typing function is not compromised as it has a qwerty pad.

The Blackberry Bold has what the tech nerds’ call, dense ppi ratio that makes its graphics come out so amazingly sharp and real. The phrase ‘seeing is believing’ acquires a new meaning with the Blackberry Bold. The images are real, to say the least. A smart phone is as good as the apps it can hold, the black berry developers are not sleeping until we get the latest apps, which as you may know, cannot be compromised because of ‘API access’. RIM develops its own apps to be used on the Blackberry Bold.

The blackberry bold is by in all ways an improvement from its predecessor, though it has kept some of the features we liked of its mother. The shiny leather back and chrome edges remain, remain on both blackberry bold 9700 and blackberry bold 9780.The two phones’ have the same dimension and weight, that is 109 x 60 x 14.1mm, 122g. Blackberry bold 9700 and blackberry bold 9780 have the same screen specifics that is 2.44”, 480x360px and LCD.

One of the differences between the Blackberry Bold 9700 and Blackberry Bold 9780 is while the Blackberry 9780 has 5MP + flash & video. The 9700 Blackberry has 3.2MP + flash & video. To ordinary user’s that means that the picture quality of the 9780 is sharper than the 9700.Same for the videos. Another difference between the Blackberries Bold 9700 and Blackberry Bold 9780 is that the 9780 has a faster processing capabilities than 9700 seeing it has 512MB onboard and 2GB microSD. Compare this to 256MB onboard and 2GB microSD of the black berry 9700.The operating system makes the main difference between the Blackberries Bold 9700 and Blackberry Bold 9780.The 9780 has BB OS 6.0 while the 9700 has BB OS 5.0 running software.