BlackBerry 9780 photos surface, some specs too - BB OS 6 inside

25 July, 2010
The transition from hearsay to “in the wild” photos is always an important one - the BlackBerry 9780 went pretty quickly from specs found in the user agent profile XML to live photos, in fact it took just a few hours...

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  • tira
  • vjq
  • 25 Jul 2010

BB is not ready to break itself out of it's old shell. As we all know, BB = physical qwerty keyboard. The next 10 phones from BB will still be the same old same old physical qwerty.

Why is that?
1. The fear of doing something different or take away the physical qwerty keyboard, BB will lose it's identity. What's BB without the keys right?

2. BB does not have the innovation to re-invent anything else that will rock the world,

3. BB has therefore passed its time.

4. Nokia is struggling with it's smart phone

5. People are tuning to Android

6. Iphone is the current wave and a big one alright!



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    • oka
    • vfg
    • 25 Jul 2010

    yikessss..... super duper booooorrriiinngggggg

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      • mistayif
      • iL{
      • 25 Jul 2010

      this phone would have been really good if it had a touchscreen aswell. i really liked the design of the bold 9700. its simple and looks smart

        • t
        • tira
        • vjq
        • 25 Jul 2010

        getting really bored with BB! What is new BB? physical keyboard? Something a thing of the past don't you think? Think Iron Man2.

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          • Anonymous
          • t7L
          • 25 Jul 2010

          Anonymous, 25 Jul 2010unfortunately for u mate the market dictates the features a... moreYes I know you are right and it is a shame. I can think of many other things I would rather have in place of a camera such as a higher capacity battery or dual sims or even a dual microsd card slots in place of a camera. People look at how many megapixels the camera on the cellphone has and think they are getting better photos from an 8 megapixel camera but they aren't just a photo that can be enlarged to a larger size but still looks as crappy as a photo from a 5 megapixel camera.

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            • Anonymous
            • FXY
            • 25 Jul 2010

            Blackberry and porsche uses the same design studio. Every new model looks almost exactly like the old one.

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              • Anonymous
              • tAW
              • 25 Jul 2010

              Anonymous, 25 Jul 2010I wish there were phones without a camera they take crappy ... moreunfortunately for u mate the market dictates the features and the majority of people aren't happy until they have a 20MP camera not knowing what any of it means. So a high end phone without a camera will never happen for marketing purposes.

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                • Anonymous
                • tAW
                • 25 Jul 2010

                GSMArena putting up an article on a weekend... Don't happen often.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • t7L
                  • 25 Jul 2010

                  I wish there were phones without a camera they take crappy photos anyway and would rather instead for a faster processor or bigger capacity battery or lower price instead of putting a camera in that takes poor photos and then including a higher resolution camera that only takes photos that are larger in size and can be printed out in larger crappy photos. The larger megapixels is no more than marketing for simple minded fools. There are places I go where they won't let you take a phone in with a camera so if the same model was offered without a camera I would take it in a heartbeat but there are fools who buy into the marketing of higher megapixels and so I know I am out of luck.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • p79
                    • 25 Jul 2010

                    So how is this different from the 9650?

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                      • Anonymous
                      • TkK
                      • 25 Jul 2010

                      With all the new BB devices in the pipeline, their success will surely depend on how well the OS has been developed and whether or not it is still dull. Hardware simply need to be upper middle to satisfy most, so a 5mp camera seems minimal.

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                        • Rands
                        • f3j
                        • 25 Jul 2010

                        Ja seriously, BB really need to up their specs on camera especially, 5mp JUST cuts it, they really should be on 8mp by now

                          • b
                          • blackberry
                          • 3J9
                          • 25 Jul 2010

                          seriously rim needs to add features to there phones. like better camera and media features and entertainment features like the others. because your gonna get taken over by other companies. there are phones out there that can do same stuff as blackberrys but with better features :|

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                            • Zoe
                            • j{k
                            • 25 Jul 2010

                            I dont like qwerty phone, i love touch screen.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • me@
                              • 25 Jul 2010

                              cool device .. i am using 9700 since Nov. thinking of buying something new during x-mas. i am excited about BB 6.0. i don't like slider, so this will be the best option to have. do you know when it will be in USA?

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                                • frzr
                                • PIN
                                • 25 Jul 2010

                                imac, 25 Jul 2010Its kids who will claim "same old boring device" ... morejust giving my opinion.

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                                  • imac
                                  • fu$
                                  • 25 Jul 2010

                                  Its kids who will claim "same old boring device" but in reality this is a design that is perfect for businessmen a qwerty keyboard+ a fairly sized screen. This new os looks promising from its live video shots and can't wait to get one of these blackberry devices running on this new os,this might replace the nokia e72.

                                    • f
                                    • frzr
                                    • PIN
                                    • 25 Jul 2010

                                    same old boring design