wraggster
August 13th, 2013, 23:56
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/08/bb9720-lead.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/13/blackberry-9720-official/)No one can pretend it's business as usual (http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/12/blackberry-private/) at BlackBerry, but for the moment the company is pressing on with new releases. Today marks the official launch of theheavily-leaked (http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/24/blackberry-9720-hands-on-video-leak/) 9720, which actually takes the whole carry-on-regardless approach a bit too literally by sticking with BB 7.1 instead of the new (and nice) BB OS 10. The phone has a 2.8-inch 480 x 360 display (214ppi) above a "re-engineered" (but distinctly Curve-like) thumbpad, a 5-megapixel rear camera and 512MB of RAM. There's also a dedicated BBM key to take you straight to the messaging app and the OS has been tweaked with a not-so-revolutionary onscreen button to make photo sharing easier. The handset is destined for Europe, Asia and Latin America "in the coming weeks" and ought to hit a much, much lower price point than the Q5 (http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/18/blackberry-q5-review/).
http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/13/blackberry-9720-official/
http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/13/blackberry-9720-official/