The Blackberry Torch 9800 is sporting a full touch screen and a slide out keyboard

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RIM have a reputation of providing great phones for the office, but other users are being ignored entirely. They have clearly taken this criticism on and gone back to drawing board where the result of months of hard labour produced the new Blackberry Torch 9800 which is the most accessible Blackberry to date. The phone has advanced multimedia for the entertainment users while support for web browsing and messaging comes as standard. You get a 5MP camera, GPS and access to the Blackberry App World. This phone is most definitely one this year's bigger and better smartphones.

And by bigger I don't mean size. The phone is reasonably compact and very sleek; there is a slide down QWERTY keyboard which provides ample support for the various messaging formats the phone covers, you also get the famous optical track pad which can be found on almost every Blackberry, ever! The real party piece here though is the capacitive touch; it is super responsive and very bright with a 480 x 360 pixel resolution which is capable of producing rich colours is a high contrast ratio.

Blackberry users will find the Torch similar to older handsets; however the upgrade to the Blackberry 6 OS does bring some obvious improvements in the performance category. The new interface brings with it some cool SNS integration features which includes live social network feeds.

The Blackberry Torch 9800 is RIM's flagship model as it is the most capable smartphone in there stable. The phone uses HSDPA to connect to 3G networks with Wi Fi providing super fast web connectivity in local WLAN hotspot areas. The web browser is very lick and allows users to save bookmarks as branded shortcuts from the home screen. The ability to browser using tabs is only beaten by the in-browser controls which are supported by the screens capacitive technology.

Keen Blackberry users expect full access to the popular BBM (Blackberry Messenger) and the Torch 9800 delivers with aplomb, the IM client runs smoother and crisper than ever before on this advanced handset. You can access your e-mail accounts via a quick set up process and support for the mainstream IM providers, SMS and MMS are also in the standard package.

The 5MP camera just loves taking pictures; it is easily the best RIM have bolted onto one of there Blackberry phones. The camera comes with flash and auto-focus and provides a number of choices where image editing and settings tools are concerned. The video player is capable of multiple format playback while the phones music player can play just about any audio file you run through it. An expandable memory allows you to build a collection of multimedia and applications while the phones Bluetooth technology enables the Torch to communicate wirelessly with compatible hardware devices.

The Blackberry Torch 9800 is definitely worth a look; the phone has everything you could expect from a decent smartphone. RIM have come in leaps and abounds over the year of 2010; the Torch 9800 proves that they can cater to a mass market rather than a fixed demographic.
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