The Blackberry Torch 9800 Wears The New Smartphone Look Yet Keeps The Familiar Blackberry Feel

If you have been frustrated in using those virtual onscreen keyboards

, you are not alone. If you had your patience stretched beyond the limit after correcting many and frequent onscreen keyboard typos, so are thousands of other users. Will you ever find a good touchscreen display with a separate physical QWERTY keyboard that works in a single device?

Responding to the demand, Research in Motion has come up with the Blackberry Torch 9800, a touchscreen smartphone with you guessed it! a slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard.

Lessons from failures

RIMs BlackBerry and touchscreen combination didnt perform as expected in the past, as what happened in the failed Storm, the Canadian phone makers first touchscreen device. Gleaning knowledge from their mistakes, RIM has developed a new BlackBerry device combining their industry-acclaimed physical QWERTY keyboard and modern touchscreen technology, to provide users what they call the best of both worlds.

The new BlackBerry touchscreen phone closely resembles RIMs Bold 9700, except that the Torch is packed with great enhancements which includes the new BlackBerry 6 Operating System and a slide-up display. So why will people want to own a Blackberry Torch 9800? For one thing, it has BlackBerrys hallmark keyboard. At the end of the day, users will revert from the virtual keyboard to the physical one because its user-friendly and uncomplicated to use.

Some new shape shift

The devices slider mechanism performs smoothly and efficiently and comes with the unbeatable design concepts found in previous versions of BlackBerrys. The phones physical QWERTY keyboard is unquestionably well-designed whilst the keypads are responsive and a pleasure to use.

The Torch is outfitted in a totally new form factor, a complete shift from the iconic BlackBerry mould yet still displays the same recognisable grid of icons. It has undergone a complete facelift and is powered by the enhanced BlackBerry 6 OS to give it a clean yet familiar look, with user-friendly features for beginners.

The old with the new

The new Blackberry Torch 9800 version 6 Operating System was subjected to a major make-over with a lot of useful features written in. Whilst the new version 6 OS is faster and more intuitive, it is still an improvement over an earlier version. It still keeps the familiar look and feel of the previous OS which means BlackBerry owners using older OS versions wont feel like a stranger with the new one.

BlackBerry devices are a hit with businesses as they offer better lock down and security features that are well above those in other mobile devices on the store. Better security means important and confidential data can be kept without worry on a BlackBerry.

The Torch, of course, bears the famous BlackBerry hallmark the most respected email delivery thats trustworthy, safe and fast, RIMs proprietary keyboard as well as the popular BlackBerry Messenger. No matter where you are in the world, you can send unlimited number of messages for free to other BlackBerry Messenger users.

These features have always been the primary selling points of RIMs BlackBerry handsets, and will be incorporated along with new ones in the Blackberry Torch 9800.

by: Simon Drew

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