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TechRadar

03/2011

6.0/10

BlackBerry Torch review

For years, they were the businessman's workhorse – the status symbol that you'd made it in the corporate world. But Blackberry's approach has changed of late – buoyed on (or shaken) by the success of Apple's iPhone and various Android competitors, maker RIM has reshaped its approach. As Apple tries to show its iPhone can make it in the corporate world, Blackberry's changed its tune and is now targeting the traditionally youthful music and social media lovers. After the love-it-or-hate-it SurePress screen of the BlackBerry Storm and Storm 2, the Torch has gone for what is now the industry standard: a capacitive screen with no clicks needed. The device feels like a quality product. It's shiny and has a 3.2-inch display. While not up there with the iPhone 4's Retina display in terms of clarity, as far as physical size goes, the Torch's screen does give the impression of being bigger than it is. The phone's heavy enough to notice – yet not enough to make carrying it a chore. But while the sliding keyboard locks in and out without rattling, this doesn't feel like a device that would survive being dropped onto a hard floor too many times.

ITP.net

01/2011

6.0/10

BlackBerry Torch 9800

The Torch 9800 is Research in Motion's (RIM) latest Middle East smartphone release. Is it worthy of the BlackBerry name?The Torch is a two in one that combines the features of the Storm and Bold 9700. The result is what you see above, a smart looking handheld with a shiny gunmetal border and a 3.2-inch screen. Slide this screen upwards and you're greeted by a full QWERTY keyboard that takes design cues from the Bold. The phone is a little heavier and bulkier than the Bold, though the keyboard itself feels more cramped thus requiring users with bigger fingers to use their nails.The Torch is equipped with the long awaited BlackBerry OS6, complete with a Webkit browser and a Webkit/HTML e-mail client, in addition to a new ‘Universal Search'. These features are eons ahead of its kin and add a refreshing touch to the platform. That said the 624MHz CPU and 512MB of RAM seem insufficient for the new OS; noticeable lag is the order of the day.However, the OS brings the BlackBerry up-to-date on the interface front, in that previously boring text has now been replaced by icons that are separated intelligently, thus making the user experience more fluid and intuitive.

Thinkdigit

12/2010

Blackberry Torch 9800

After the slew of capacitive-touch phones over the last year, it's only natural that every manufacturer, (who hadn't already), would want to hop aboard this wagon. Blackberry has been one of the late adopters. After all, catering to the business segment has less to do with fads and more to do with usability, right? A QWERTY keypad is a must for corporate users and touch-screen phones seldom feature those. We're not talking about those pesky on-screen keypads, we're talking about the good old hardware ones, in all their bevelled, intuitive glory. Enter the Blackberry Torch 9800, Torch for short. A hybrid – featuring both a QWERTY concealed beneath a vertical slider, and a reasonably sized capacitive touch-screen. A QWERTY slider and a capacitive-touchscreen, the Torch 9800 has all possible input methods covered. HTC Desire - Almost absolutely desirable [Review] RIM finally introduces BlackBerry Bold 9780, due worldwide in November BlackBerry Torch scrutinized: a roundup of the first impressions Indian govt. reaches interim agreement with RIM, BlackBerry services to continue At first glance, the Torch is a handsome device.

DigitalVersus

10/2010

8.0/10

Phone Reviews: Mobiles & Smartphones

So what's this high-end slider got to offer? According to RIM, it's as good at multimedia as it is communication, but will it find as much favour with the general public as with the manufacturer's traditional fans in the business world? As soon as you pick it up, you realise that this is a big phone. At 160 g on the scales, it's not a light handset, or a particular slim one either, but that's the price you have to pay for a physical keyboard The weight makes it feel solid, and it's perfectly well made, as long as you don't mind your phone being all plastic. These generally positive first impressions are dashed as soon as you slide open the screen. You have to push hard with your thumb to get to the physical keyboard, and we would have preferred something a little smoother. And once it's open, there's a slight wobble between the two halves. It's not unlike the problems we found on the Nokia N95, another smartphone that has a touchscreen and a physical keyboard. Apart from that, though, the finish is generally good. The back of the phone has a rubber exterior, which feels nice and prevents it from slipping out of your hand even if you've been holding it for a long time.

MaximumPC

09/2010

7.0/10

BlackBerry Torch

The Torch 9800 is simultaneously a departure from, and a clinging embrace of, the form and function that has helped make BlackBerry the most popular smartphone platform over the last five years. The phone’s biggest innovation is a 3.5-inch capacitive touch screen display that shares hands-on interface duties with RIM’s familiar slider keyboard. BlackBerry loyalists who’ve come to appreciate the speed and tactile comfort of this signature keyboard will appreciate that it hasn’t changed. As a general rule, we too like sliders because they enable speedy long-form prose. The Torch is also the first BlackBerry to include RIM’s just-released BlackBerry 6 OS. Unfortunately, the new software is paired with old hardware, and the marriage leaves something to be desired. Simply put, we would have liked increased performance to go with RIM’s efforts toward increased usability. The CPU is the same 3-year-old 624MHz Marvell PXA310 that was in the BlackBerry Bold, and it feels overmatched by the new OS. During testing, our phone consistently exhibited sluggish screen refreshes, stuttering transitions between apps, and lag between actions.

GSMArena

09/2010

BlackBerry Torch 9800 review: Living the Olympic creed

The BlackBerry Torch is not the first phone to give you both a full hardware QWERTY keyboard and an ample touchscreen in a smartphone setting. But it's a debut for BlackBerry and one that will probably shape the future for the next generation of RIM phones. The supplied 6th version of the BlackBerry OS is looking to balance user-friendliness and performance, tradition and creativity in the latest BlackBerry touch products.. The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is the usual impressively built gadget, the ultimate email machine. One would think RIM is among the lucky few phone makers that could've for ever pretended the iPhone didn't exist. When your devices are in a class of their own and you're a household name in corporate services, it's easy to believe you're special. But RIM is not looking for safety in habit. We've seen enough proof that complacency is not on the company's agenda. And they deserve credit for that. RIM still put business users first but the game has changed and they know it. So, a first-ever slider and a new OS are the torchbearer for RIM looking to revise their whole strategy. The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is meant to appeal to the average Joe while making sure the typical corporate user receives the usual high quality service.

HotHardware

09/2010

BlackBerry Torch 9800 Smartphone Review

RIM's line of BlackBerry smartphones has been popular among business users for some time, but the brand has been losing market share in recent years to other platforms such as Android and iPhone. Now, the company is looking to turn things around with its new BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone and the new BlackBerry 6 operating system. RIM claims BlackBerry 6 "retains the familiar and trusted features that distinguish the BlackBerry brand while delivering a fresh, approachable and engaging experience that's powerful and easy to use." In other words, RIM says it has taken everything you like about a BlackBerry and added some cool new features and options that will improve your overall experience with the phone. Many long-time BlackBerry users will tell you this is exactly what they want—familiarity but with a more powerful and faster web browser, more social networking capabilities, better support for multimedia, etc. One of the touted new features with BlackBerry 6 is the new WebKit browser which can render HTML web pages quickly. The browser also features tabbed browsing, pinch to zoom controls, and an auto-wrap text feature.

3G.co.uk

09/2010

6.0/10

BlackBerry Torch 9800 review

RIM has produced its most innovative handset to date in the BlackBerry Torch 9800, which features a touch-screen AND a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, along with the new OS 6. BlackBerry users are a loyal bunch, as RIM has discovered. Once a BlackBerry user, pretty much always a BlackBerry user, whether they favour the QWERTY keyboards of the Bold and Curve ranges, Pearl's SurePress facility, or the Storm handsets with their touch-screens. Despite this popularity, RIM has never really managed to crack the mainstream market, something which it is trying to do with the BlackBerry Torch series, with not only the new operating system, but a touch-screen, AND a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. First impressions No one could say that the Torch is on the light side - it weighs a rather chunky 161 grams - and because of its design, grows in size by about a third once the QWERTY keyboard is popped open. RIM users will be familiar with the keyboard, whose keys double up for letters, then numbers and punctuation. At the bottom of the device lies a ‘chin', which makes a handy thumb rest and makes the keyboard appear sunken.

Mobiledia

08/2010

RIM BlackBerry Torch Review

BlackBerry. The very name inspires intense emotion for almost everyone who owns a smartphone. For its fans, "BlackBerry" brings to mind words like functional, dependable, workhorse, indispensable. For its detractors, the words are more like ugly, old, out-of-date, passe. The Torch is Research in Motion's attempt at silencing its critics. A whole new operating system, BlackBerry OS 6.0, is combined with a whole new sliding form factor. It's BlackBerry's answer to Google's Android and Apple's near-ubiquitous iPhone. How does the Torch stack up? Can it withstand the considerable competition in the mobile marketplace? Read on to find out. The Torch is, simply, a thing of beauty. It is almost completely black, with dark gray metal on the front edges. The back of the Torch is rubberized, which makes for a very easy yet strong grip. With the front touch screen off, the phone looks almost like a smooth river stone -- and this is a good thing. The new device also represents a departure for RIM from form factor. It features a slide-up screen that reveals a hardware keyboard beneath.

TechRadar

08/2010

6.0/10

BlackBerry Torch 9800 review

In some ways, RIM has aimed to shoot its own foot this year, releasing smartphones that are functional enough for business, yet offer no new compelling features for anyone else. The BlackBerryTorch 9800 is a step in the right direction, albeit a small step. However, the competition has been thriving in the past few years; the iPhone 4 provides a sleek design, thousands of amazing apps, and a high-def screen. Recent Android devices, including the Samsung Galaxy S and the HTC Desire, are also super-smart phones with massive screens, screaming-fast 1GHz processors, and a slick UI. Can the BlackBerry Torch 9800 push RIM back to the sharp end of the smartphone market? We review the US version of the phone to find out.This slider phone uses an improved touchscreen, but is a faint reminder of the Palm Pre and, in many ways, the BlackBerry Storm 2 which shares the same bulky heft and 3.2-inch screen size.Unfortunately, the Torch is not particularly suited to the BlackBerry diehards, because the QWERTY keyboard is a bit too small and the processor is too slow to keep up with the finger-clicking productivity apps that BlackBerry users depend on.

PCWorld

08/2010

8.0/10

RIM BlackBerry Torch

RIM has stepped up its smartphone game by introducing the BlackBerry Torch 9800 ($200 with a two-year contract from AT&T), the company's very first touchscreen/physical-keyboard phone sporting the brand-new BlackBerry 6 OS. But can the Torch (and future BlackBerry 6 OS devices) compete with the ever-growing Android army? A little thicker than some of the other top-line smartphones out right now, the Torch measures 4.4 by 2.4 by 0.6 inches and weighs a manageable 5.68 ounces. Unlike with the BlackBerry Storm and the BlackBerry Storm 2, here RIM has successfully added a touchscreen while retaining the look and feel of the phone familiar to BlackBerry users. The front face of the phone has the four typical buttons: Talk, Menu, Back, and Power/End. The buttons flank the square optical touchpad, which you can use for navigation in addition to the touchscreen. Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of the Torch is its touchscreen display. Not only did I find it slightly lackluster, but it could also be a bit wonky in its responsiveness. Thankfully, it doesn't use RIM's awkward SurePress technology, which we saw on the Storm models.

DigitalTrends

08/2010

7.0/10

BlackBerry Torch Review

Review: The incremental upgrades in BlackBerry’s new Torch 9800 won’t win over many Android or iPhone 4 users, but they should prevent BlackBerry loyalists from jumping ship.Whether or not you believe the new BlackBerry Torch 9800 from AT&T is as revolutionary as RIM's TV ads imply, depends on what side of the smartphone divide you're on. If you're a current BlackBerry user, you'll find the Torch a quantum improvement over RIM's last touch-screen attempt, the Storm, and an amusing alternative to BlackBerry's suddenly quaint non-touch interface. If you're an iPhone or Android user, however, a few minutes touching Torch will make you chuckle patronizingly before returning it to its chastened owner. In other words, BlackBerry users will find it a huge step up, but it still won't staunch the bleeding RIM continues to suffer from defections to the iPhone and Android phones.Even though RIM touts the Torch as revolutionary, it's a doppelganger of the Storm, only with the addition of a vertical slide-out keyboard – same size screen, same basic design and layout.The Torch would have been revolutionary – or at least competitive – even a year ago, but now suffers badly in comparison with the latest wave of iPhone and Android superphones.

SlashGear

08/2010

BlackBerry Torch 9800 Review

We've been waiting for the BlackBerry Torch 9800 for months now. RIM's double-whammy of new touch-and-QWERTY hardware and the latest iteration of their software, the much-anticipated BlackBerry 6, the Torch promises usability, functionality and all-round appeal on a par with high-end smartphones from rivals like Apple and HTC. Not just for the jacket pocket, this one; RIM has set its sights on the mainstream, a far more fickle - and demanding - audience. Will the Torch light RIM's way into the lucrative consumer market? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut. Aesthetically, the Torch won't scare the BlackBerry faithful. It's a well-constructed and sturdy handset, with plenty of RIM's existing style elements dropped in, and points where other manufacturers still struggle - we're particularly thinking about the slider mechanism - feel rock solid. At 4.37 x 2.44 x 0.57 inches (when closed; 5.83-inches long when open) the Torch is pretty close to the Bold 9xxx in size, though it's a heavier handset (5.68 oz versus 4.8 oz) and in contrast with (non-QWERTY) rivals like the iPhone 4 or DROID X it's chunky in the hand.

phoneArena

08/2010

8.5/10

RIM BlackBerry Torch 9800 Review

In this day and age, you've got to continuously innovate in a broad spectrum of categories to keep pace with the ever evolving nature of the mobile industry. It's clearly a live fast, die hard atmosphere with yesterday's high-end smartphones passing the torch and legacy to newer devices expected to live up to the expectations of the constant changing needs of consumers. Wherever you look right now, there is no denying the vast amount of devices available at the finger tips of consumers, but it truly takes something quite compelling to get them to side with one specifically more than another. RIM built their empire by attacking the business and enterprise end of the mobile market, however, they weren't as successful in attracting everyday consumers. We've seen them go through two touchscreen offerings, with the second one seen as a vast improvement over the first, but regardless of all of its prowess, the BlackBerry Storm2 still could not firmly grasp itself as a heavy contender.Enter the BlackBerry Torch 9800 which not only holds RIM's legacy on its back, but it's also showcasing a rebooted platform which is optimistic in grabbing the mind share of the everyday consumer – the demographic they've been unable to consistently attract.

LaptopMag

08/2010

7.0/10

BlackBerry Torch (9800)

While the Storm was a bold departure for RIM, the Torch represents a highly refined version of what BlackBerry owners have come to know and love. The welcome but not-too-extreme makeover starts with BlackBerry 6, a new OS that features a modern-looking interface with multiple home screens, a much improved WebKit browser, and a Social Feed app that aggregates Facebook, Twitter, and RSS updates. Yes, the Torch ($199 at AT&T) is the first slider design from the company, but underneath the touchscreen resides a relatively comfortable keyboard that will make e-mail and BBM addicts feel right at home. In some ways, though, this smart phone feels stuck in the past, including its low-resolution display and somewhat sluggish processor. So is this wireless equivalent of high-end comfort food good enough to compete against the iPhone 4 and the latest Google-powered superphones, or has RIM's efforts fallen short?When we look at the Torch we can't help but wonder how much better the Palm Pre could have been if RIM designed the hardware. They're both sliders, but this BlackBerry looks and feels like a more premium device.

PCMAG

08/2010

8.0/10

BlackBerry Torch 9800

The new BlackBerry Torch 9800 with BlackBerry 6 keeps RIM in the smartphone game. It's the first truly usable touch screen BlackBerry, and it's packed with new features - a new Web browser, new apps, a new interface, and new social networking hooks. It might even save you money. Messaging is still clearly at this phone's core, though, unlike on flashier all-touch phones like the Apple iPhone 4 ($199.99-$699, ). That leaves the Torch a strong bet for those who type and chat all day, and still behind the leaders for those who prefer to game, surf the Web, or watch videos. There's a more subtle advantage to the Torch, too. Our other top AT&T phones tend to have a flashy, media-focused sheen that may not appeal to corporate customers. They also lack QWERTY keyboards. The Torch gives you a touch screen and excellent media features, but with the hard keyboard and serious BlackBerry attitude that may make it more welcome at work. BlackBerry phones always feel like premium hardware, and the Torch is no exception. The 4.4 by 2.4 by .6 inch (HWD), 5.7 ounce Torch is black and silver, with a soft-touch back and a comforting heft.

CNet

08/2010

8.0/10

RIM BlackBerry Torch 9800

Though BlackBerrys continue to be extremely popular, it's no secret that RIM needed to step up its game and really work on improving and advancing its operating system. And over the past few months, the company has given us previews of a refreshed OS, but now, we've finally had a chance to put it to the test. The RIM BlackBerry Torch 9800 is the first device to ship running BlackBerry OS 6 and will be available starting August 12 for $199.99 with a two-year contract. We actually got the smartphone a few days before the official unveiling to put it through its paces, and we found a lot to like about it. The slider phone--a first for RIM--brings together a touch screen and physical keyboard into a solid, compact design. The new OS brings some much-needed and welcome additions, including a better browser, an enhanced multimedia experience, and improved user interface. Sure, in the grand scheme of things, none of this is new but at least it puts RIM back on track. It's just unfortunate that RIM didn't upgrade other parts of the phone, such as the display and processor, as the Torch doesn't quite stack up to some of the latest smartphones. Still, there's enough there to keep BlackBerry fans happy.

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