Blackberry Torch - An Impressive Choice For Surfing The Web On The Move
The Blackberry Torch 9800 is perhaps one of the most appealing recent handsets from the manufacturer. Featuring a touch screen and also a slide out QWERTY keyboard, it offers the very best of both.
Business users consider it the perfect smartphone, as it features several productivity tools for jobs to be completed on the move. Some of these tools include an MS Office files compatible document viewer, voice memo recorder and organiser. The incorporated QWERTY keyboard is of great help for people sending a high number of emails and messages. The optical trackpad is also there to navigate the Blackberry OS 6.0.
The 3.2 inches TFT capacitive touch screen is perfect to view images, videos or various documents, due to the pixel resolution of 360 x 480 and which can display up to 16 million impressive colours. The screen provides a dynamic and attractive method navigating the user interface, ideal for such activities as browsing the web.
Measuring 111 x 62 x 14.6, the handset is not the smallest, but opinions regarding this issue have changed a lot in the last years. Users are no longer obsessed with size, but are more interested in features and software, aspects in which the Blackberry Torch 9800 is certainly not a disappointment. Along with the productivity tools already mentioned, it includes several entertainment features as well, such as a resourceful internal media player compatible with most music and video file formats or several built-in games and access to a collection of downloadable games.
An internal storage capacity of 4 GB is provided for users to store music tracks or documents. The built-in Micro SD card slot offers an incorporated 4 GB memory card, which can be replaced with a memory card of up to 32 GB. Thus, the handset can potentially store a huge amount of data or all kind of files.
Internet access is provided through an HSDPA connection where 3G is available or through Wi-Fi for high speed internet access where there are available wireless networks. GPRS and EDGE are both in class 10 versions to connect the phone to cellular networks.
The Blackberry Torch also features a handy 5 mega pixel camera with a pixel resolution of 2592 x 1944, which results in still images of excellent quality. It boasts such features as standard as LED flash, image stabilization and autofocus. It can also shoot VGA quality video footage at 24 frames per second.
As it can be easily deducted from the long list of features, the Blackberry Torch 9800 is a highly versatile handset. It is definitely appealing for most business users and students, but also for existing Blackberry enthusiasts.