Blackberry Torch 9800 Touch screen and slide out keyboard brings the best of both worlds to the BlackBerry faithful, along with an updated OS. BlackBerry manufacturer RIM has been struggling to keep up with the main innovators at the head of the smart phone pack. So far, it's been keeping pace rather than edging in front. It appears that's unlikely to change with the Torch 9800, which has some very good features, including the latest BlackBerry OS 6, but has a few drawbacks too.
The slide-out QWERTY keyboard will seem superfluous to hardened touch-screen users, especially since there's a perfectly fine on-screen virtual edition too, which, in both the portrait and landscape modes, is very good, with well-spaced keys, highlight flags and intelligent, editable AutoText.
It does without the Storm's love-it-or-hate-it clicky SurePress screen though, replacing it with a 3.2in multi-touch, capacitive touchscreen with a 360 x 480 resolution and 16m colors. The slide out QWERTY keyboard is a good size – just a smidgeon smaller than the Bold's.
It’s a fine one too, with 35 well-spaced keys, angled in RIM's exclusively thumb-caressing way. The handset is big, but not out rageously so at 111 x 62 x 15mm and 161g and beneath the display is a row of clickable buttons for call start and stop, back and menu, with the same adjustable optical trackpad featured on all recent Blackberry’s in the middle. On the sides are a micro USB power/sync slot, camera shutter button, volume rocker and 3.5mm headphone jack. On top are touch sensitive mute and screen lock buttons while the rear casing boasts a well palpable rubberized plastic back.
News Source: www.reghardware.com
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