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RIM announces BlackBerry Bold 9790, Curve 9380 - hitting the market within weeks
On November 15 2011, Canadian mobile phone giant, Research in motion (RIM) announced the release of two new smartphones based on the BlackBerry OS 7 operating system - BlackBerry(R) Bold 9790 and BlackBerry Curve 9380.
The new smartphones offer impressively slim and stylish designs with enhanced communications, multimedia, productivity and social connectivity features. The BlackBerry Bold 9790 is both powerful and compact, offering users a fully loaded, high performance smartphone with the dual benefits of a high resolution touch display and a highly tactile keyboard. (Picking up where the Bold 9780 left off). The QWERTY-equipped handset also comes with 8GB of onboard memory and features a microSD slot that offers up to 32GB of additional space. The BlackBerry Curve 9380 is the first ever BlackBerry Curve with a touch display with a 3.2-inch, 480 X 360 display and a 5MP camera. It continues to deliver the powerful social experiences, ease-of-use and smaller handset size that distinguish the BlackBerry Curve family, while also offering Curve users the choice of a larger display and an all-touch design. Both Phones will come pre-loaded with BlackBerry Messenger, Documents To Go Premium, and BlackBerry Protect. BlackBerry OS 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 and BlackBerry Curve 9380 smartphones will begin to be available from various carriers around the world over the coming weeks. Availability dates for specific devices from specific carriers will be announced in conjunction with RIM's partners
