Oh, look - it's another BlackBerry Bold! But what's the catch? And where is the difference really? Sure it looks a bit smaller than the 9900 but it's the same QWERTY / touchscreen combo. So far, so good.

Now, let's play spot the difference. The Bold 9790 is powered by a different processor and HD video is one of the first things scrapped. To make amends, the phone has what's probably the best BlackBerry still camera to date. Both the screen size and resolution have taken a cut but we haven’t told you the best part yet. The Bold 9790 looks no worse than the Bold 9900 and costs less.
Now, the BlackBerry Bold 9790 is merely the next-in-rank. It doesn't have the premium features of the flagship but it makes sense as a potential replacement of the year-old Bold 9780. What it does is add touchscreen to a classic package, aiming to keep the BlackBerry experience up to date.

Key features:

BlackBerry OS v7

Enhanced email and data security with BlackBerry Internet Service

2.45" 16M-color TFT touchscreen of 480 x 360px resolution

QWERTY keyboard

Quad-band GSM support and quad-band 3G with HSDPA

Dual-band Wi-Fi b/g/n connectivity

NFC support

GPS receiver and BlackBerry maps preloaded, digital compass

5 megapixel auto-focus camera, LED flash (surprisingly good camera, too)

VGA@30fps video recording

1GHz processor

768MB RAM

8GB of inbuilt storage

Optical trackpad

microSD card slot (up to 16GB)

DivX and XviD video playback support

Office document editor

3.5 mm audio jack

Smart dialing

Compact body and solid build quality

Specification