Bold 9780 Hands-on Review

We jumped on the bandwagon two days ago with more pictures of the upcoming Blackberry Bold 9780. Well we're back today with exclusive video of the 9780 running OS6! We've seen plenty of videos of the 9800 running OS6, but to date there has been no video of a QWERTY device running the OS (except for the very early review of the 9670 we did!). More importantly, we haven't seen Webkit on a QWERTY device.

No more! Below, find a short video of the 9780 running OS6 and some more pictures.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raUlCJIqPZc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raUlCJIqPZc</a>

As you can see, everything seems to run quite nice! Take note of times the screen seems to be white and "loading". This was not lag, rather just the camera getting adjusted to the light. As mentioned in the video, it is important to note that this is a pre-release device and definitely not running the final software version. In fact, based on the picture below, this device is running App Version 6.0.0.79.



Some quick observations of this device:
-The 9780 has the exact same form factor and appears to be the same all around hardware of it's older brother, the 9700.
-The camera does not have the "5MP" stamp next to it that the 9670 has.
-Same screen resolution as the 9700.
-Appears ready to run on GSM networks (read: AT&T and T-Mobile in the US).
-Cannot tell if the processor is the same as the 9700, but runs smoother on OS6.
-Tough to tell from the pictures because of glare, but has a sharp black bezel around ...