Over the past few months, many of us 9700 users gradually lost all hope of an OS6 leak for our beloved devices before the release of the 9780. It was a thorn in the side to keep seeing OS6 leaks for various other BlackBerry devices while we just sat the sidelines. In the midst of everything, when 5.0.0.979 leaked for the 9700 it was almost comical.

It seems like RIM tried extremely hard to keep OS6 from leaking for the 9700 and for a good reason. Now that I have OS6 on my 9700, my desire for the 9780 has considerably lessened. I have OS6 loaded with the most of the native apps, Twitter, Facebook, Social Feeds and about 15 3rd party apps, while I have 68.3 MB of free space. I did a little shrinking before I loaded the OS but that only accounted for 5-10MB of additional space. Everything runs very smoothly and I’m pleasantly surprised with the outcome. Daniel and I noticed some larger pages will fail to load if you continuously scroll ahead of the rendered portion but it’s too early to tell if it’s the device or the software build causing the issue.

Now what does the 9780 have over the 9700 as far as hardware goes? An additional 256MB of RAM and 1.8 additional megapixels as far as the camera goes. If you’re a 9700 user and you’ve had a few hours to play with your device on OS6, what do you think? Will you still be waiting on line to purchase the 9780 upon its release? Will there be a line? I’m sure the additional memory might come into play for some of you, depending on how many apps you’d like to have and how much data you store on your devices but what about the rest of you? Will a little more camera clarity be enough of a reason for you to upgrade?