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RIM announces the BlackBerry Torch 9800
This morning Waterloo-based Reasearch In Motion officially announced their latest smartphone – the BlackBerry Torch 9800. This will be the first device that will have their new OS BlackBerry 6 and it’s hitting AT&T on August 12th. Even though there’s no official Canadian release date there are rumours that this is penciled in to be available later this Summer. After the break are full specs of the Torch and this comes with both a QWERTY keyboard and a 3.2 inch touchscreen. When this arrives in Canada are you going to get this?
(The Torch has now been confirmed to be launching on Bell, Rogers, TELUS and Virgin by the end of the year)
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BlackBerry Torch Smartphone Features
- Elegant styling, measuring approx. 4.4″ (5.8″ open) x 2.4″ x .57″ and weighing 5.68 ounces
- 3.2″ 360×480 capacitive touch screen display
- 35 key full QWERTY backlit slide-out keyboard, designed to feel optimally balanced when opened for typing
- Optical trackpad that makes navigation fast and smooth
- Powerful 624 Mhz processor with 512 MB Flash memory
- 4 GB built-in memory storage plus a microSD/SDHD memory card slot that supports up to 32 GB cards; a 4 GB card is included giving users 8 GB of storage out-of-the-box
- 5 MP camera with flash, continuous auto focus, image stabilization, scene modes, geo-tagging and zoom, as well as video recording at up to 640×480 resolution
- Built-in GPS for location-based applications and geo-tagging
- Wi-Fi® (802.11 b/g/n); qualifying smartphone customers can enjoy seamless connectivity to over 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots at no additional cost
- 3.5mm stereo headset jack
- Premium phone features, including voice activated dialing, speakerphone and Bluetooth® (2.1) with support for hands-free headsets, stereo headsets, car kits (including systems that support the Bluetooth Message Access Profile standard) and other Bluetooth accessories
- New BlackBerry® Desktop Software 6 with integrated media sync for easily syncing music, photos and videos**. It also includes Wi-Fi Music Sync, a unique feature that allows users to view their entire iTunes® or Windows Media® Player music libraries from their BlackBerry smartphone, create and edit playlists as well as select music for download. When in range of their home Wi-Fi network (or via USB), the changes are synced with iTunes or Windows Media Player and the songs are automatically downloaded to the smartphone
- Tri-band HSDPA (3G) and quad-band EDGE support for the option of voice service in more than 220 countries, data service in more than 195 countries and 3G connectivity in more than 125 countries, including Japan and South Korea
- Removable, rechargeable 1300 mAhr battery that provides approximately 5.8 hours of talk time on 3G networks or 30 hours of audio playback or 6 hours of video playback
Via: MarketWire
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I’ll probably get that one since Bell doesn’t have the Palm Pre Plus :/
I just hope they’ll change the name in Canada because “Torch” in French sounds very weird.
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Think I’ll just wait for the bold 9780 update.
still can’t trust movable parts on phones.
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It’s always been a little weird for me how RIM being a Canadian company they launch in the US first. While I understand it’s a bigger market, I’d still like to have seen a Canadian company launch in the US along with Canada at the same time.
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“Powerful 624 Mhz processor”?!?! NOT
With the surge Android has been making, RIM will be in panic mode in the not too distant future…unlike RIM Google understands what the consumer wants and delivers…I’m about to jump ship, Android is the future, no denying it!
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I’m liking this phone a lot but I’m getting a phone this week and I don’t think this will be out in time.
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Well, its about damn time! Too bad us Canadians will have to wait around, once again, for the new phone to hit our market.
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I love those buttons.
Even with a touch screen I find a good set of buttons to be really useful. Some of the Android phones have decent buttons, but the set shown in the pic of the new BB (which are pretty standard now for BB) are great.
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I wonder how long before one of the Canadian Carriers announce it.
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I am defenitly getting this. I have an unlocked BB bold 9000 on telus and it really doesn’t work well. Come to telus fast!!!
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I find it pretty sad that us Canadians will have to wait for a Canadian phone to arrive in Canada, when its already released in the states. Just saying.
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@Romes, I somewhat agree with you, I think the Android platform will be the leading OS for the everyday consumer but I don’t think that any other company will be able to dent Blackberry’s core market. I still see using there first Blackberry with the clickwheel!
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I still see people using the first Blackberry with the clickwheel, I meant to say.
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Ugly looking Blackberry, I prefer the 9700
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Awesome!!!!
I’m switching to Telus as soon as they get this.
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OS6 looks wicked.
I’m not sold on the 9800, but seeing OS6 makes me excited for the Storm3.
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according to crackberry, BB bold 9700 will be getting OS 6.0 soon, I am so exciting about it because I pick the right BB 3 weeks ago as I choose Bold 9700 over Storm2 9550 because storm2 is not going to get software upgrade to 6.0.
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looks pretty good, i wonder how it will put up with the new iphone or some new android devices… i smell war
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A better title would have been “RIM announces they are no longer relevant.”
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Is there a reason that the 2010 Olympic Torch looks like a blunt?
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Hope 9800 build quality will be better. RIM has been having so much unit that has to be send for repair. Quality is not as great as before like the 8830,8800, 8330. If you work in a wireless retail store then you know what I mean. And it’s not just Hardware part, software part as well; they should focus on fixing current OS. There are many unhappy user out their because of software problem. Especially corporate user with BES integrated.
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I Wont be Getting this Phone For Wind, only because its an ugly phone. If i Wanted an touchscreen/keypad ill get the Nokia N900
Im happy with my 9700
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