BlackBerry Bold 9790 offers a standard BlackBerry form factor, with a physical QWERTY keyboard and a 2.44-inch screen with a 360 x 480 pixel resolution. It also sports a 5-megapixel camera on the back, a 1 GHz CPU and 8 GB of storage memory, further expandable via microSD cards.

As the model number suggests, the 9790 is an extension of RIM’s pint-sized 9700 series.

These new BlackBerry smartphone, which will be available to buy in the coming weeks, run the BlackBerry 7 OS and feature NFC capability for remote payments.