BlackBerry 9700 Onyx
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Bold Onyx 9700 has a shape and size equivalent to javelin (BlackBerry 8900). That means shorter, thinner, lighter than the Bold 9000. As receive the effects, the size of the screen and qwerty keyboard phone should be displaced a few millimeters so that seems smaller than its predecessor’s.
for those of you who used to use keypad Bold 9000 may have to adjust, but for users Javelin or Gemini, onyx keypad still provide the same good impression. The problem lies in the design. Forced impressed with the Bold 9000 has carved such a way that caused the high difference in each key.
On the other hand, as a member of Bold, onyx ornaments keep skin on the back cover. Although not as large cell Bold 9000, it still raised ornament in the middle of the back cover. Mechanism backcover Onyx lid no longer as the new BlackBerry products, such as Bold 9000, Javelin, Storm and Gemini. No longer is the key mechanism. That there is a sliding mechanism like the Nokia product Sticks.
The main difference besides the size of the replacement opticall trackball with a trackpad. yes, like the BlackBerry 8520 Gemini. With a trackpad, a number of problems often experienced when using the trackball will be lost. Such as navigation is no longer any dust or stuck because of dirty hands.
Meanwhile, the software side, Onyx has brought the BlackBerry operating system the most advanced, OS 5 (v5.0.0.330). Os brings many changes, especially in the view UI. But most importantly, OS 5 is able to accelerate quickly, including loading systems perform much better than that brought Bold OS as the default 9000.