BlackBerry Q10 vs BlackBerry Bold 9700 Comparison and Differences

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BlackBerry Q10

BlackBerry Q10

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BlackBerry Bold 9700

BlackBerry Bold 9700

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BlackBerry Q10 or BlackBerry Bold 9700 Specs Comparison

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Common specs

Brand and model BlackBerry Q10 BlackBerry Bold 9700
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Release date 2013, January 2009, October
Dimensions (HxWxD) 119.6 x 66.8 x 10.4 mm | 4.71 x 4.71 x 2.63 in 109 x 60 x 14 mm | 4.29 x 4.29 x 2.36 in
Weight 139 g | 4.9 oz 122 g | 4.3 oz
Body Build Plastic body
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Colors Black, White Black, White
Battery 2100 mAh,  Removable Li-Ion 1500 mAh,  Removable Li-Ion
Battery life Stand by time - Up to 360 h (3G)
Talking time - Up to 10 h (2G) / Up to 13 h 30 min (3G)
Stand by time - Up to 408 h
Talking time - Up to 6 h
Keyboard QWERTY QWERTY
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Screen

Technology Super AMOLED TFT
Touchscreen capacitive touchscreen
Display colors 16M 65K
Screen size 3.1" in 2.44" in
Screen area 31.0 cm2 18.4 cm2
Screen format 1:1 (height:width) 4:3 (height:width)
Screen to body ratio 38.8% 28.2%
Screen resolution 720 x 720 px 480 x 360 px
Screen PPI /points per inch/ 328 PPI 246 PPI
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Camera and Video

Rear camera, main 8 MP, Single 3.15 MP, Single
Camera specs -8 MP, f/2.2, 31mm (standard), AF -3.15 MP, AF
Functions LED flash, HDR, panorama LED flash
Video 1080p@30fps Yes
Front camera, selfie 2 MP, Single 0 MP,
Specifications 2 MP
Video 720p

Performance

Operating system - OS BlackBerry OS 10, upgradable to 10.3.1 BlackBerry 5.0, upgradable to 6.0
Chipset - Qualcomm Snapdragon S4
CPU - Dual-core 1.5 GHz Krait (LTE version)/ Cortex-A9 (Non-LTE) - 624 MHz
GPU Adreno 225 (LTE version)/ PowerVR SGX544 (Non-LTE)
External memory microSD, up to 64 GB (dedicated slot) microSD, up to 16 GB (dedicated slot), 2 GB included
Internal memory 16 GB, 2 GB RAM 256 MB, 256 MB RAM

Benchmark

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Communication and Connectivity

SIM card Micro-SIM Mini-SIM
Network GSM / CDMA / HSPA / LTE GSM / HSPA
Bands -2G - GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - all versions 
CDMA 800 / 1900 - SQN100-2, SQN100-4
-3G - HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 - SQN100-1 
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 - SQN100-2, SQN100-3, SQN100-4 
HSDPA 850 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 - SQN100-5
-4G - LTE band 2(1900), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 17(700) - SQN100-1, SQN100-5 
LTE band 4(1700/2100), 13(700) - SQN100-2 
LTE band 3(1800), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800) - SQN100-3 
LTE band 25(1900) - SQN100-4
-2G - GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Speed EV-DO Rev.A 3.1 Mbps, HSPA, LTE (market dependent) HSPA 3.6/0.384 Mbps
GPRS Yes Class 10
Edge Yes Class 10
Wi-Fi Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual band, hotspot Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UMA
GPS Yes, with A-GPS Yes, with A-GPS
NFC Yes
USB microUSB 2.0 microUSB 2.0
Bluetooth 4.0, A2DP 2.1, A2DP
Harmful irradiation SAR - 1.16 W/kg (head)     0.75 W/kg (body)    
SAR EU - 1.41 W/kg (head)     0.78 W/kg (body)    
SAR - 1.55 W/kg (head)     1.39 W/kg (body)    
SAR EU - 1.36 W/kg (head)     1.18 W/kg (body)    

Music and Audio

Radio FM radio (after SW upgrade) No
Headphone jack Yes Yes

Other features

Sensors - Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
Other extras
- HDMI port

- BlackBerry maps
-Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
-Media player MP3/WMA/AAC+
-Video player DivX/WMV/XviD/3gp
-Organizer
-Voice memo/dial
--Optical trackpad

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