Bold 9780 vs Torch 9800

Written by admin on December 12, 2010 – 9:52 pm -

A person in this market place who has already chosen to go the blackberry route in this market place is enevitably going to ask themselves, Bold 9780 or Blackberry Torch 9800?

What’s the fundamental difference between the two?

Well, in short – the glaringly obvious difference is the touch screen and hidden keyboard the Torch 9800 sports is all that separates the two. I’ve heard several well published and well trusted arguments that OS 6.0 is faster on a 9780 because it doesn’t need to run the software and drivers neccessary to support the touch screen… While I haven’t seen two side by side, I would have to agree that to be true given that they both have the same amount of RAM and the same Marvel 625Mhz processors onboard. For the life of me I still don’t understand the use of this chip. Sure it’s well supported, affordable etc, but we see no discount in price… Yet they continue to use this in favor of even a modest upgrade to say some 800Mhz Qualcomm or something.

For typing…

Typing on a Blackberry Torch 9800 is a bit tougher than a Bold 9780 (which by the way contains the exact same keyboard letter for letter, inch for inch size wise to the Bold 9700)… The Torch however, has the top row of keys blocked by the top of the slider that slides over top of the keys and actually has a stiffer set of keys than the 9800… Making it actually less enjoyable to type on. Sure with some practice it could get easier… but I’ve heard from long time users that it’s not something that ever really goes a way.

Battery

I’m not exactly sure why but RIM actually claims a longer battery life on the 9780 than they do on the Torch.. Could the torch have been a hybrid experiment that went horribly wrong? I’ve heard rumors that typing on the 9800’s touch screen is nasty (I believe engadget said that) and you inevitably wound up typing on the physical keyboard after a short period of detest.

Apparently the 9780 doesn’t support WiFI… a glaringly nasty thing! Im not sure why they would choose to leave that out on such a wonderfully designed unit otherwise…

The onboard RAM is identical with the exception of the 4GB of EMMC onboard the Torch for some future use maybe?

I would think the 9780 would be an obvious choice if they would only include Wifi…


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7 Responses to “Bold 9780 vs Torch 9800”

  1. By Candida Brown on Dec 20, 2010 | Reply

    You mention that the Bold 9780 doesn’t include Wifi…however, all other sites mention it, including T-Mobile. I had one for a couple days. It ’seemed’ to have wifi. I was also able to connect my home wifi to it.
    Could you clarify what ‘not support wifi’ means in your review?

  2. By admin on Dec 22, 2010 | Reply

    Your correct! Blackberry.com (RIM’s website) suggests that the device has no wifi, which was why I was NOT going to go out and get one, but upon closer inspection, T-Mobile in the USA & Rogers Canada both state their version does indeed have WIFI. I’ll be getting a test unit very shortly.

  3. By pm on Dec 30, 2010 | Reply

    I’ve got a 9780, on wifi right now actually. It works completely fine, save for one thing; the email setup doesn’t work on my device for some reason.

  4. By admin on Jan 2, 2011 | Reply

    Just got mine yesterday and yeah, It does have WIFI. Apparently on the Blackberry site they list that it doesn’t have WIFI because some CDMA carriers chose to NOT carry Blackberry 9780’s with WIFI. It was a carrier choice. Blows my mind how stupid some carriers can be with regard to what they choose to include or disclude from the devices they offer. They probably have some silly logical reason like it would lower sales of the 9700 or something stupid like that.

  5. By jonny on May 31, 2011 | Reply

    on my bold 9780 ive got wifi, its a great phone and ideal for me :) and i am a 12 yr old boy i dont use alll the features like the calender etc but the keybored is great for fb and bbm etc however i end up having to chage my bold every nite because of the short battery life

  6. By Raghuraj on Jul 18, 2011 | Reply

    I own BOLD 9780 and it has WiFi. The Bold is perfectly working and i consider it as the best model i ever had.

  7. By admin on Jul 18, 2011 | Reply

    The Bold 9900 will be a bit better IMO. It’s going to have a lot more punch…

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