BlackBerry Torch 9800

Recently, RIM became part of the smartphone market as the company introduced BlackBerry Torch 9800. And just like most smartphones today, the Blackberry Torch is worth $200 and comes with a 2 year contract with AT&T. The Torch 9800 is the first phone presented by RIM that has a physical keyboard and touchscreen feature. Other than that, it also sports the latest BlackBerry 6 OS as well. But is this competitive enough to face the army of Android-based phones?

The BlackBerry Torch 9800 only weighs 5.68 ounces. Using the Torch 9800 would be easy for all the previous BB users since it has the touchscreen feature. Unfortunately, the touchscreen of the BlackBerry model isn’t as responsive as expected in a high-end phone. But at least it did not incorporate the SurePress technology from RIM which they used at BlackBerry Storm models before.

On the other hand, the BlackBerry 6 OS is a reliable software that would surely give the other BlackBerry phones a whole new look. You can depend on it particularly on e-mails since you can since it with Groupwise, Exchange, and Lotus Domino to assure that on-time delivery of your emails.

Another issue is the browsing performance. If you would browse websites with a lot of media files embedded, it would take time before the page loads. It seems that it is just too much for the 624MHz processor integrated on the phone. Wonder why they didn’t used 1GHz processor instead?

But in terms of taking pictures, Torch 9800 is catching up with some of the most popular smartphones today. It has a 5 megapixel camera that focuses automatically, LED flash, and a 2x zoom as well. Moreover, it also has some of the latest shooting features like face detection which can be found in most high-end digital cameras today.

Via : toptechreviews.net