Blackberry Torch 9800 – The Latest Effort From RIM To Stay Alive In The Market

Research In Motion launched its Blackberry 9800 Torch exclusively on AT&T in United States. RIM hopes to revive its smart phone market with its latest phone, the Blackberry Torch 9800. RIM holds the second position among the smart phone vendors worldwide with 18% market share. The Blackberry 9800 Torch comes along with the following features.

Visual, Fluid interface: Blackberry Torch 9800 runs on the latest software, the Blackberry 6 OS. It gives you a better experience along with an easy to use interface.

All in one design: Blackberry Torch 9800 comes with a 3.2 inch HVGA+ touch screen display. It offers a light-sensing and proximity detecting screen with user selectable font size. Blackberry 9800 provides an on-screen keyboard facility. It uses a slide-out QWERTY keyboard that helps you type easily.

Enhanced Browsing: Blackberry 6 OS offers you faster and richer web experience. The browser is completely upgraded with options like pinching, zooming etc. Multiple web pages can be opened at once with tabbed browsing.

Engaging multimedia: The device comes with an 8 GB of pre installed memory expandable up to 32 GB and a lot of better multimedia features which would give you higher quality video and graphical experience. The Blackberry Torch 9800 uses Windows Media DRM 10 for music and video playback. It supports video formats including MPEG4, H.263, H.264, and WMV3. It can also support MP3, AMR-NB and AAC-LC audio formats. It has 3.5mm stereo, Bluetooth and

Hands-free headset facility. It also has an integrated speaker and microphone along with integrated hands-free speakerphone. It has a fully loaded GPS, Wi-Fi and 3G support.

Social feeds: Blackberry 6 OS makes it easier to stay connected to the people. It offers easier social networking facilities. It allows you to easily post updates on Face book and Twitter.

Universal Search: Now with Universal search you can search everything on your smart phone at once. You can scan your folders, applications, Internet, email, and more, all in one search.

Blackberry Messenger: Blackberry Messenger gives you a real-time conversation experience. Blackberry Messenger is an instant messaging application just for Blackberry smart phone owners. With the Blackberry Messenger you can send and receive messages of unlimited character length.

Battery Life: Blackberry 9800 uses a lithium-ion cell battery with a standby time of up to 18 days for GSM and up to 14 days for UMTS. It offers a talk time support up to 5.5 hours for GSM and up to 5.8 hours for UMTS. It supports up to 30 hours of Music Playback and 6 hours of Video Playback.

Camera: The new Touch 9800 comes with a 5 MP camera with 2X digital zoom along with flash and continuous auto focus, video recording, Image stabilization and new scene modes.

Security: Blackberry Torch 9800 offers a higher level of security with Keyboard and screen lock.

Dimensions: The phone has a height of 4.37in (111mm) when closed and measures 5.83in (148mm) when open. It has a width of 2.44in (62mm) with a depth of 0.57in (14.6mm). It weighs 5.68oz (161.1g).