Hands On With the BlackBerry Torch 9800 126
adeelarshad82 writes "Research in Motion announced the company's first slider-style BlackBerry, the Torch 9800, which is also the first BlackBerry with both a touch screen and hard keyboard, and the first device to run the new OS 6. The Torch feels and looks very much like a BlackBerry, with the proper BlackBerry Bold-style arrangements of plastic, metal, and glass; there are also BlackBerry fonts on the keys and the now-standard BlackBerry trackpad. The Torch's 3.2-inch, 360-by-480 screen is a standard capacitive LCD touch screen. The screen is bright and sharp, but it's obviously behind the competition in terms of resolution. The Torch has a 5-megapixel camera with VGA video recording, Bluetooth 2.1, 512 MB of program memory, 4 GB of built-in storage, and 802.11n Wi-Fi. The Torch has the same 624-MHz Marvell processor as the existing BlackBerry Bold. The new BlackBerry 6 OS adds touch to the interface mix. RIM appears to have totally rewritten its media apps. There's a new Desktop Manager coming with BlackBerry 6, and a Social Feeds app that combines Twitter, Facebook, and various instant messaging conversations."
Bad Apple (Score:5, Funny)
How you like RIM, Jobs?
Re:Bad Apple (Score:5, Funny)
I once had a recruiter contact me about a position at Research in Motion. For the next 2-3 days as we corresponded back and forth, I kept receiving emails titled "re: Rim Job" "re: re: Rim Job" "re: re: re: Rim Job".
I suppose I'm lucky they weren't all immediately filtered as spam.
According to Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bad Apple (Score:5, Funny)
A job at Research in Motion.
Re:Groundbreaking [2007]! (Score:1, Funny)
Business user: I need fast push access to e-mail and critical documents wherever I go. I don't care about anything else.
Personal user: LOL i just want 2 play sum farmville and take sum pictures of my doggie and put it on fabo and omg twitter i liek dont care if it works all the time k just as long as its pretty pretty!!!!1111ONE00110001
Youtube? Is that you?
Re:Groundbreaking [2007]! (Score:1, Funny)
So there is no reason the current crop of Android devices or iPhones would pick the Blackberry Torch 9800 over a non business person?
I suppose that is a true statement, but kind of a weird thing to say.
Renamed for the UK market... (Score:3, Funny)
The phone will be dubbed the "Blackberry Flashlight 9800" for UK owners
Re:Renamed for the UK market... (Score:2, Funny)
Let's just hope they don't have any battery overheating problems, or the "Torch" name will turn into a bad pun really, REALLY fast.
Re:Blech (Score:1, Funny)
I end up swapping the SIM to my personal iPhone
If it helps, I know a number of RIM employees who do the same thing.