The Blackberry Torch is the manufacturer’s latest foray into the Smartphone market. This handset utilises a touch-screen as well as a full QWERTY keyboard, the latter of which is commonly seen on Blackberry phones.
This gives users the opportunity to navigate the user interface and browse the web with the intuitive efficiency of the TFT capacitive touchscreen, yet take advantage of the text entry speeds offered by the keyboard. This makes it perfect for those who send a lot of emails or text messages, meaning the Blackberry Torch is likely to find favour amongst business users and social networkers alike.
The handset measures 111x 62x 14.6 mm, so it is impressively slimline and lightweight (at 161 g) for a handset with a separate keyboard unit. The TFT capacitive touchscreen measures 3.2 inches and is able to display 16 million separate colours within 360x 480 pixels. The resulting image display is of the utmost quality, making it perfect for viewing photos and videos as well as surfing the web or even gaming. Additionally, there is an optical trackpad for navigating the user interface and choosing options from menus.
Users are able to customise the sound of their Blackberry Torch thanks to the ability to assign MP3 files as ring tones, which functions alongside vibration to alert users to incoming calls and messages as well as other alerts.
A generous 4 GB of internal storage is provided as standard, so users can keep plenty of files within the handset, be they music tracks or Microsoft Office documents. The handset is compatible with numerous video and music file formats thanks to the versatile internal media player. A selection of pre-installed games along with access to a library of downloadable games adds to the handsets arsenal of entertainment features.
The manufacturer is renowned for producing handsets which are great for browsing the Internet, and the Blackberry Torch is no exception. In areas with 3G coverage, an HSDPA connection allows access to the Internet whilst a faster connection can be achieved thanks to Wi-Fi when in proximity to a wireless Internet router. MicroUSB and Bluetooth connections are provided as standard meaning users can connect the phone to compatible hardware devices.
Blackberry has clearly made more of an effort with the digital camera on this handset than some of its predecessors. Boasting 5 mega pixels, the camera operates at 2592x 1944 pixels, so the resulting still images are of superb quality. A number of image enhancing features are included, simplifying the task of taking great quality snapshots. As if great quality still images weren’t enough, the camera also boasts the ability to shoot video footage in VGA quality at 24 frames per second.
The Blackberry Torch is a versatile handset which offers a decent alternative to more established Smartphone models. It is certainly functional and looks great with its slide out keyboard and is sure to appeal to all kinds of mobile phone user.
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