Two new BlackBerry® smartphone models were recently announced: the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9790 smartphone and the BlackBerry® Curve™ 9380 smartphone. From a developer’s perspective, here is what you need to know about these new devices.

BlackBerry Bold 9790 smartphone

• Support for NFC (Near Field Communication) technology
• 480 x 360 screen resolution 246 dpi, 16 million colors supported (24-bit)
• 5 MP camera
• Integrated GPS with A-GPS
• Capacitive touch screen, optical trackpad, 35-key backlit QWERTY keyboard
• Wi-Fi®: 802.11 a/b/g/n UMA support
• Networks: HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• Memory: 768 MB RAM, 8 GB eMMC
• Mime type: Mozilla/5.0 (BlackBerry; U; BlackBerry 9790; en-GB) AppleWebKit/534.11+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.0.496 Mobile Safari/534.11+

BlackBerry Curve 9380 smartphone

• Support for NFC (Near Field Communication) technology
• 480 x 360 screen resolution, 188 ppi, 16 million colors supported (24-bit)
• 5 MP camera
• Integrated GPS with A-GPS
• Capacitive touch screen, optical trackpad, on-screen keyboard: portrait, QWERTY and multitap, and landscape QWERTY, dedicated keys: Send, End (Power), Menu, Escape, User Configurable (Camera default), Volume Up/Down/Mute (Fwd/Back/Pause for media), Lock
• Wi-Fi: 802.11 b/g/n UMA support
• Networks: UMTS, GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• Memory: 512 MB DDR SRAM / 512 MB eMMC
• Mime Type: Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (BlackBerry; U; BlackBerry 9380; en-GB) AppleWebKit/534.11+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.0.497 Mobile Safari/534.11+

Also, both of these devices make use of the powerful BlackBerry® 7 OS, which includes such features as:

• OpenGL® ES 2.0
• Native Window API
• HD Video recording
• UDP Multicast
• Magnetometer
• Unified Search
• Travel Time API
• NFC technology

You can find out more about the new features and APIs in BlackBerry 7 OS at our BlackBerry 7 development page.

Want to give the new smartphones a test drive for development? Head over to the BlackBerry smartphone simulator download page to download BlackBerry Bold 9790 smartphone and BlackBerry Curve 9380 smartphone simulators today! After testing your applications in these new simulators, remember to enable them in the BlackBerry App World™ storefront to ensure your applications are available for download when these devices are launched.

Let us know if you have any questions about developing for these two great new devices in the comments!