BlackBerry Bold 9790 features a 2.45 inches touch screen that hosts HVGA resolution and a pixel density of little less than 250 ppi. It has a QWERTY keypad and traditional Blackberry style keys and an optical trackpad. For maximum sound output it features 3.5 mm audio jack. The 5 mega pixels camera allows shooting photos in high quality output with LED flash.

It features a 1230 mAh Li-Po battery that allows a talk time up to 5 hours 20 minutes and a total standby time of up to 408 hours. It also has a microSD card slot for extendable memory while it has an internal memory of 768 MB RAM and 8 GB. It runs Blackberry OS 7 and features enhanced email and data security. It also supports Wi-Fi connectivity. You can play video in DivX and XviD. The camera is 5 mega pixels that also supports VGA recording @ 30fps.