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BlackBerry® Torch™ 9800 Smartphone:
New Form Factor - Uncompromising Design
The BlackBerry® Torch™ 9800 smartphone is the first BlackBerry® slider smartphone. This premium smartphone is uncompromising in its design, offering the best elements of both touch screen and physical QWERTY keyboard. In addition to the stunning 3.2” capacitive touch screen, it also features a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard. The large, high-resolution display is great for web browsing on the new WebKit-based browser, viewing videos and pictures, and reading messages, while the legendary keyboard allows for fast, comfortable typing.
Impressive New User Experience
BlackBerry® 6 has a completely redesigned user interface for BlackBerry® smartphones without compromising on the BlackBerry® experience our customers know and love. Everything has been designed to give a more visual, fluid, and dynamic experience. Graphical menus welcome you and intuitive navigation and new universal search scans your folders, apps, internet, email, and more gives you the freedom to explore with ease. The BlackBerry® Torch™ 9800 smartphone is a communications powerhouse that makes keeping in touch in real-time easier than ever. Bring all of your sources of inspiration together with exciting new social feeds from BBM™ to Facebook® and RSS. Catch up on all of your social networking updates in one view and track your RSS updates in another. The BlackBerry® Torch™ 9800 smartphone also features a completely overhauled multimedia experience with a stunning new 5 MP camera, and a great new interface for music and videos, so you can watch videos on YouTube®, flick though your music collection or check out your latest podcast download.
Best Ever Web Browsing with BlackBerry® 6
The BlackBerry® Torch™ 9800 smartphone features BlackBerry® 6, the impressive new operating system for BlackBerry® smartphones, which includes a new WebKit-based Internet browser. With BlackBerry’s best ever web browsing experience, pages render quickly and are displayed on the BlackBerry® Torch™ 9800 smartphone’s large display with beautiful, desktop-like clarity. The new browser also supports pinch-to-zoom, multiple sessions (tabbed browsing) and is highly efficient, so you use less data when browsing, compared to competitive products.
Key FeaturesKey BlackBerry Firsts
- Full-QWERTY keyboard and large touch screen display
- High resolution capacitive touch screen (480 x 360 pixels, 3.2” diagonal measurement) with accelerometer
- HSDPA support (3.6 Mbps)
- Built-in GPS and Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n)
- 5 MP camera with flash, autofocus, digital zoom, face recognition
- 512 MB Flash, 4 GB onboard memory, microSDHC memory card slot (up to 32 GB)
- 624 MHz processor
- BlackBerry® 6, the impressive new operating system for BlackBerry® smartphones which includes:
- Crisp, more immersive visuals, including new icons, graphics and animations
- New WebKit-based browser; high-fidelity and very efficient, with tabbed browsing
- Multi-touch support (e.g. pinch to zoom) while browsing, viewing photos, etc.
- Graphical, context-sensitive pop-up menus
- Redesigned core apps, plus a new multimedia UI and new apps for downloading podcasts, watching YouTube videos, and integrating RSS and social networking feed
- First to feature a physical full-QWERTY keyboard and a full touch screen display
- First running BlackBerry® 6, the impressive new operating system for BlackBerry® smartphones
- First with RIM’s new WebKit-based web browser (part of BlackBerry® 6)
- First with a 5 MP camera (includes facial recognition)
- First with 4 GB of onboard memory (note: apps can only be stored in 512 MB Flash)
