BlackBerry Bold 9900 simulator surfaces online

on 29 May 2011 08:45 PM

Bold 9900

Since not all of us were able to attend BlackBerry World this year that means that we all had to live out the Bold 9900, and OS7 through our computer screens by watching hands on videos from those who were lucky enough to play with it. If you have been dying to get your hands on OS7 and see how it differs from OS6, and to get a little alone time with the 9900, you can now simulate that relationship with the device simulator. So, if you aren't out with the family at a bbq, or doing something else this Memorial Day weekend give it a download and check it out for yourself.

Click here to download the BlackBerry Bold 9900 Device Simulator

Source: N4BB

Filed Under: News & Rumors; Tags: BlackBerry Bold 9900, Device Simulator

31 Comments

Posted by Nick9071 Sunday, May 29, 2011 358 days ago

Can a MacBook run this?

Posted by kb2755 Sunday, May 29, 2011 358 days ago

Not unless you're running Bootcamp, its a .exe file.

Posted by Roo4x4 Sunday, May 29, 2011 358 days ago

Can't run on a Playbook either.

Posted by ldudiaz Sunday, May 29, 2011 358 days ago

Sorry for asking, but where can I find the simulator? I installed it but can find it

Posted by Gamesdmc3 Saturday, Jun 04, 2011 352 days ago

Go to programs,and you will see a folder named Research in motion.......im having so much fun with this simulator!!!!!!

Posted by RyFry565 Sunday, May 29, 2011 358 days ago

doesn't work on macs or the playbook. :s

Posted by CrackBerryDoctor Sunday, May 29, 2011 358 days ago

It works on my Mac. I'm running bootcamp. It's nice albeit there are some uncaught exceptions and stuff - too bad you can't simulate your actual bbm and email via BIS.

Posted by kb2755 Sunday, May 29, 2011 358 days ago

Yeah that would be nice eh? I remember trying that on the 9700 simulator before it was released.

Posted by paratheo Monday, May 30, 2011 358 days ago

i have been lookin all over for this bad boy... YAY. but ya i wanna like copulate with this sexy mother ******

Posted by gbsn Monday, May 30, 2011 358 days ago

People... stop complaining that it doesnt run on mac os, playbook, ipad or whatever device besides a window computer you are trying to run it on, .exe file = windows for now...

Posted by Appleluver23 Monday, May 30, 2011 358 days ago

No one was complaining. They were just stating that it doesn't work on those devices.

Posted by walle7388 Monday, May 30, 2011 358 days ago

warning.... i just attempted to download this file. Norton flagged and deleted the file as a "medium risk" as well as "there are many indications that this file is untrustworthy and therefore not safe".

i will be interested if anyone has a similar experience.

Posted by Seigmen Monday, May 30, 2011 358 days ago

Norton says that about a lot of files. Winamp is also a "risk" according to Norton.

Cant wait to get home and try it out :D but that is still another 8 hours as I'm on my way to work now :(

Posted by FunktasticLucky Tuesday, May 31, 2011 357 days ago

Norton has become the crappiest AV program ever.. so bloated and the internet security takes complete control of the system. It wouldn't even let someone's computers connect to each other. And even stopping the service and disabling it... it still was running and actively blocking. A few other computers I was working on would take literally an hour to boot up... Uninstalled Norton and Voila started right up (granted I found out that newer versions do a boot scan)but it's a huge resource hog. Get Avast. It's free and does the same crap Norton does... and they update more often.

Posted by dweav44 Monday, May 30, 2011 358 days ago

I just had the same thing happen to me.

Posted by flip4life4751 Monday, May 30, 2011 358 days ago

I just tried it and it was kinda buggy.. I don't see what is so special about this, it is literally like playing with OS6 with a keyboard and mouse. All of the special cool features of OS7 is going to be involving some of the additional hardware that a computer cannot utilize.. Idk IMO this is just ridiculously pointless and just another stall :P

Posted by djfawbz Monday, May 30, 2011 358 days ago

Just give me the real damn thing already!!!!

Posted by pjdade Monday, May 30, 2011 358 days ago

http://us.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberrybold/touchbold.jsp?

old but good..........roll on august

sorry that was supposed to be a straight click link.

Posted by J_K_Resnick Monday, May 30, 2011 358 days ago

When I try to open it, it says: CatFail (0x 119E401F3) If I click on Ignore it Says: CatFail (0x 19E401B2) if I ignore again it says: Access violation reading from 0x00000000

Help?!

Posted by Dammerung2010 Monday, May 30, 2011 358 days ago

Odds are this isn't the current version of the simulator, it's running OS 6.1.0.55 which is obviously no longer relevant.

Posted by parsa1884 Monday, May 30, 2011 358 days ago

i run the .exe file and nothing happened. How do you run the simulator?

Posted by Dammerung2010 Monday, May 30, 2011 358 days ago

After you install the simulator you can access it under Start Menu > All Programs > Research In Motion > Blackberry Smartphone Simulators 6.1.0 > 6.1.0.55 > 9900.

Posted by Big Spartacus Monday, May 30, 2011 357 days ago

Soooo, what does that mean (if anything) for the us release date?

and @pjdade where does it say the release date is august?

Posted by MaxPayne79 Monday, May 30, 2011 357 days ago

i keep getting an "Error 104" and the white screen of death like on my pearl form 5 years ago lol. That's terrible.

Posted by BlackBerry Owner 1 Monday, May 30, 2011 357 days ago

I just downloaded it and the first thing I did was open BBM and add my pin as a contact...it went under the pending category and I clicked on my pin (in pending) and found you can customize BBM colors...try it out, thats cool.

I also tried updating BlackBerry app world, Twitter, and Podcasts those worked as well

Posted by realtrevor Tuesday, May 31, 2011 357 days ago

I downloaded the whole 177MB file using my BlackBerry bold 9700. I couldn't believe it was happening.

Posted by josh05 Wednesday, Jun 01, 2011 356 days ago

How do you use the simulator after you install it on your 9700?

Posted by gorith Tuesday, May 31, 2011 357 days ago

After playing with this for a little while now, I think the device looks like the 9780. It doesn't have the 9000's chrome border thing, but it does have the smoothed top like the 9780/9700. Could this possibly be the 9790??

Posted by facegirl Thursday, Jun 02, 2011 355 days ago

I was thinking the same thing it does resemble a 9780/9700.....it doesnt look like the 9900 at all...........

Posted by facegirl Thursday, Jun 02, 2011 355 days ago

The device in the simulator is running on OS6, thats definitely not the 9900........gonna uninstall the simulator now

Posted by gorith Thursday, Jun 02, 2011 355 days ago

Its actually running on 6.1.0.55. But really whats the difference between 6.1 and 7.0? All they did was call an apple, an orange.