BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 vs HTC Desire 816

Key differences

Calculated from recorded specifications using minimum difference thresholds. These are differences, not an overall ranking. For three phones, numeric highlights compare the two extremes.

• Weight

  Bold Touch 9900: 35 g lighter

  Bold Touch 9900:

  130 g

  Desire 816:

  165 g

• Width

  Bold Touch 9900: 12.7 mm narrower

  Bold Touch 9900:

  66 mm

  Desire 816:

  78.7 mm

• Screen diagonal

  Bold Touch 9900: 2.7 in smaller diagonal

  Bold Touch 9900:

  2.8 in

  Desire 816:

  5.5 in

• Depth

  Desire 816: 2.6 mm thinner

  Bold Touch 9900:

  10.5 mm

  Desire 816:

  7.9 mm

• Height

  Bold Touch 9900: 41.6 mm shorter

  Bold Touch 9900:

  115 mm

  Desire 816:

  156.6 mm

• Release year

  Bold Touch 9900:

  2011

  Desire 816:

  2014

Relative size, not calibrated actual size. Front and side outlines share one scale and a bottom baseline. Generic outlines use recorded body dimensions, excluding camera bumps.

1. 1. Bold Touch 9900

   Height:

   115 mm

   Width:

   66 mm

   Depth:

   10.5 mm +2.6 mm versus Desire 816

2. 2. Desire 816

   Height:

   156.6 mm +41.6 mm versus Bold Touch 9900

   Width:

   78.7 mm +12.7 mm versus Bold Touch 9900

   Depth:

   7.9 mm

Screen size

Approximate rectangular screens calculated from recorded diagonal and aspect ratio at one relative scale. Rounded corners and cutouts are not subtracted. These are not phone outlines or calibrated actual sizes.

1. 1. Bold Touch 9900

   Screen diagonal:

   2.8 in

   Aspect ratio (height:width):

   4:3

   Approximate rectangular screen area:

   24.3 cm²

2. 2. Desire 816

   Screen diagonal:

   5.5 in

   Aspect ratio (height:width):

   16:9

   Approximate rectangular screen area:

   83.4 cm²

Desire 816 has approximately 243.5% more rectangular screen area than Bold Touch 9900.

Memory variants

Each row compares the same storage capacity. Cells show recorded RAM alternatives, not combined maxima. Not recorded does not mean unavailable in every market.

No unambiguous storage/RAM pairings are recorded. See the original specifications below.

Practical features

Explicit Yes and No values are shown directly. Qualified or regional records retain their details. Unknown means the record is missing.

Battery capacity

Capacity is not battery life. No endurance test is implied.

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