BlackBerry Torch 9800
The BlackBerry Torch is not the first phone to give you both a full hardware QWERTY keyboard and an ample touchscreen in a smartphone setting. But it’s a debut for BlackBerry and one that will probably shape the future for the next generation of RIM phones. The supplied 6th version of the BlackBerry OS is looking to balance user-friendliness and performance, tradition and creativity in the latest BlackBerry touch products..
The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is the usual impressively built gadget, the ultimate email machine.
One would think RIM is among the lucky few phone makers that could’ve for ever pretended the iPhone didn’t exist. When your devices are in a class of their own and you’re a household name in corporate services, it’s easy to believe you’re special.
BlackBerry Torch 9800 official photos
But RIM is not looking for safety in habit. We’ve seen enough proof that complacency is not on the company’s agenda. And they deserve credit for that. RIM still put business users first but the game has changed and they know it. So, a first-ever slider and a new OS are the torchbearer for RIM looking to revise their whole strategy.
Key features
- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
- 3G with HSPA support
- 3.2" 16M-color multi-touch capacitive touchscreen of 360 x 480 pixel resolution
- 5 MP autofocus camera with LED flash and VGA video recording
- BlackBerry OS 6
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
- Built-in GPS with BlackBerry maps preloaded
- 4 GB internal storage and a hot-swappable microSD card slot
- Nice design and build quality
- 3.5mm standard audio jack
- Accelerometer sensor for screen auto-rotate
- Bluetooth v2.1 and microUSB v2.0
- Document viewer
- Optical trackpad
- Good audio quality
- DivX and XviD support
