It has just been announced that the Blackberry Torch 9800 is now available on Virgin Mobile, and is in stock.
The Blackberry Torch 9800 is the first of its kind: a Blackberry handset that has two input methods. It sports a 3.2 inch capacitive or touch sensitive display screen, as well as a slideout QWERTY keyboard. It has a perfect solution for those who want to stay in touch with friends and colleagues using social networking – the phone has a integrated solution for social networking sites which includes email and messaging solutions.
The smartphone comes equipped with a 5 MP camera that supports video capture, 3G and WiFi connectivity, and 8GB of internal memory. The handset also comes pre-installed with the WebKitBrowser.
Virgin has announced that the Blackberry Torch 9800 can now be ordered by paying monthly payments. The monthly payments start at £35.74/month, and the deal gets you a free handset, 800 minutes of talktime, 1GB of data exchange, and unlimited texts. The handset can also be ordered from O2, T-Mobile, range, Vodafone and Three, with prices starting at £22.34/month.
When bought SIM-free, the handset can be purchased for as low as £464.99, and the Pay As You Go scheme of Orange prices it at £449.99.
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The BlackBerry Onyx 9780 is going to be the latest handset to join the impressive lineup of RIM’s BlackBerry smart phones. As one would expect, the handset uses RIM’s proprietary OS –in fact, the Onyx is reported to be packed with the latest version, OS 6.
The phone is a very simple device, it comes with a 2.44 inch TFT touch screen, a 5 mega pixel camera, the latest version of the BB operating system and of course, the physical keyboard that BlackBerry handsets are always known for.
Overall, the device looks pretty much like what one would expect from BlackBerry –which is actually what is so good about the Onyx. While other mobile phone manufacturers tend to deviate their overall look and design, the BlackBerry series’ has distinctively classic appeal to users.
Staying in familiar ground is one thing, but stagnation is another, and RIM has been tweaking out the operating system to keep their mobile devices up to date. For many years, the BlackBerry smart phone has been considered to the best choice for businesses –with very few switching to Windows Mobile. BlackBerry’s OS and hardware capabilities bring together a complete business solution package to business users.
RIM’s stable and reliable handsets are also appealing to general users; however, the minimal focus on multimedia has always been an issue for some –particularly those who are not too keen on the whole physical keyboard thing.
Without a doubt, non-keyboard users are better off with full touch screen devices; but for those who need the best of both types, BlackBerry has come up with the OS 6 (which will be featured in the BlackBerry Onyx 9780). This brings more media related features as well as a new interface that should appeal to general users a lot more, the platform is also geared more towards user interface designs that rely on touch screen input.
Blackberry | Liam | 
January 12, 2011 11:50 am | 
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