Blackberry Torch series are well-known for their fluid all-touch display and QWERTY slide-out keyboard providing you with an incredible multimedia experience and performance. With this classic BlackBerry Torch series of phones one thing that you will never asked to compromise is on the efficient touch or press to type. The phone comes in two colors, metallic white and black. There are two phones in the series currently available, BlackBerry Torch 9800 and BB Torch 9810, while the former is available in two colors and the latter in three colors, including red.
The phone comes with a track pad, touch screen with an onscreen keyboard that is equipped with portrait SureType, QWERTY and multi-tap, landscape QWERTY, slide-out QWERTY off screen keyboard, ESC key to the right of the track pad, Menu key on the left of the track pad and the keyboard has backlighting for efficient use in the dark. On the left side of the phone is a port for USB connectivity; while on the right side are the key for volume control and camera.
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Features:
The dimensions of this phone are as follows: 4.37” × 2.44” × 0.57” and weighs not more than 161 g. Though the dimensions are for when the phone is closed and compact, this is how you are going to carry most of the time. The phone has both onscreen and off-screen QWERTY keyboard. The phone is made of either of a 3.2” Transmissive TFT LCD VGA display screen or a HVGA with light sensing and proximity detecting screen.
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Memory is the one that differentiates the performance of the phone and makes torch 9810 much superior to torch 9800. While the former has an 8GB onboard memory, the latter is nowhere near with only 512 MB. Both the models supports 32 GB microSD card and comes with a 4 GB media card. Besides, they support audio, video and picture files in various numbers of formats.
Some of the other interesting features in the latest 9810 model are the presence of a 5 MP camera, HD video recording with Flash and digital Zoom, continuous auto focus, face detection, image stabilization, geo-tagging, multiple picture taking modes and zero shutter lag.
Connectivity solutions will include the use of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS navigation and much more. The phone also has the port for 3.5mm headset jack to listen to music and built-n speakerphone, all being backed by BlackBerry OS 6 and 1270 mAh rechargeable battery.
Review:
What is good about this phone is that, I will instantly bet on the massive internal memory that the phone is offering, besides the performance of its all-new OS 6. This OS 6 platform brings to the performance of this phone with better user interface, universal search, improved browser and multimedia experience. The next thing that will strike me is the combination of the QWERTY and on screen QWERTY keyboards, making typing a pleasant experience.
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What is not good about this phone is that the phone is sluggish offering a lower resolution screen, which minimizes the goodness of the phone’s main memory. The phone’s camera can only shoot VGA or HVGA videos, while we are living in the era of HD movies. Besides, new applications downloaded could be saved only in the main memory, which could corrupt the phone if you are going to try an unauthorized application.
Tagline: Overall, with all the performance of BlackBerry Torch on OS 6, is much better and the necessary incorporations has been made to gain better customer satisfaction in 9810 model, which was a lag in 9800 model. This is worth the money spent on the new BlackBerry Torch 9810 model.
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