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BlackBerry Torch 9860 Smartphone
Designed to give you choice, the new BlackBerry® Torch™ 9860 smartphone lets you do it all. The enhanced display, powered by Liquid Graphics™, gives you a smoother, more fluid touch experience. Improved browsing, high—speed, easy to navigate design, multitasking and powerful upgrades included in BlackBerry® 7 OS, give you the choice to do everything you want, the way you want.
BlackBerry 7OS
BlackBerry® 7 is a smoother and faster BlackBerry OS, with breakthrough technologies and new apps and experiences. And with Liquid Graphics, you'll enjoy truly stunning multimedia and gaming.
BlackBerry Browser
The new BlackBerry Browser offers incredibly fast page load times, better web–based gaming, HTML video support and seamless scrolling and zooming.
Augmented Reality
Layering information from your surroundings with information from the Internet gives you a new way to experience the world around you. Get the story on a landmark, read reviews on a restaurant you just passed or scan a crowd at a concert to see how far away your BBM™ contacts are, just by looking through the camera using augmented reality.
Voice-activated Universal Search
With speech-to-text translation, you can search for files, email, contacts, music and more—and even search the web—without typing a thing.
Discover More
Discover moreExperience the revolutionary new way to search for information. Find what's around you faster with the Wikitude™ app. It uses augmented reality and the phone's camera to locate just about anything – like which of your BBM™ friends are close by.
Fast, Capable and Powerful
Enjoy the fastest BlackBerry web browsing experience yet – thanks to a 1.2GHz processor and BlackBerry 7 OS. Plus instant touch screen swiping, pinching and zooming with Liquid Graphics, means you can get even more done in less time.
Easier Multi-tasking
Whatever you get up to in a day – email, messages, social updates – your notifications keep coming through, giving you the choice to switch here and there, like a true multitasker. So go ahead, choose to do it all – at once.
Make an Instant Connection
With access to high-speed mobile networks, Wi-Fi® networks and available carrier hotspots, you can go from the office, to the coffee shop, to the airport and home again, without missing out. Your online life goes on.
Make it Yours
The BlackBerry Torch 9860 smartphone comes fully equipped right out of the box. Add powerful apps and tailored accessories to get even more from it. BlackBerry App World™ offers thousands of apps: games, social networking, online shopping, personal productivity and more. Then dress things up with BlackBerry® Authentic Accessories like Bluetooth® headsets and stylish cases made just for your smartphone. And get a BlackBerry Torch 9860 smartphone that’s truly your own.
Let it Come to You
Instead of digging through multiple mailboxes, websites and applications, let everything come to you effortlessly and seamlessly. The power of push technology, built right into every BlackBerry® smartphone, lets you know when a message is there, giving you the choice to act on it when you’re ready — that’s the power of BlackBerry smartphone.
Share, in Real-Time
Using BlackBerry® Messenger to chat with your friends in real—time is an easy choice to make. Whatever you’re up to, the power of BBM™ lets you stay connected with friends, family and colleagues, easily and naturally. Share chats, notes, videos, photos and more — all on one screen.
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The quicky - In the Torch 9860 RIM have finally produced a Blackberry touchscreen device that allows for intuitive menu navigation and a touchscreen keyboard that does not make entering long emails daunting at all. There are a few tiny issues (covered below) but these are minuscule compared to the standard design blunders we have become used to from RIM. The Torch 9860 has a great camera, a vivid screen, is a dream to use and has battery life contemporary to other touchscreen smartphones. The touchscreen keyboard is a real standout and the best on ANY touch device I have used - making text entry as easy as it ever was on the legacy 'standard' Blackberry keyboards. The Torch 9860 is by far the best Blackberry I have used. It is the successful evolution of many products and comes very highly recommended for anyone who wants a touchscreen smartphone combined with the functionality of a Blackberry device.
Now onto the nuts and bolts.
Any statement like: 'Best Blackberry ever', needs context. I'll start with me. I have used Blackberrys extensively for years. I support them and those that use them. I test devices across all smartphone brands. Blackberrys are a large part of my communication and digital life. And I gotta say, these last two years RIM have frustrated the hell out of me. Mostly this has come from some bad design decisions. Anyone that uses a Blackberry (BB) knows there are three important factors: the screen, the keyboard and what you use to navigate the screen options. Key to all this, is the need to be able to type efficiently.... Read more ›
That's my main issue, along with the auto-rotate which you don't seem to be able to turn off and also the keyboard. I have an iTouch and i'm used to the keyboard after typing a symbol switching back to letters, this does not. I know it's not apple, but it's a kinda handy option. Also occasionally I start typing a text and the first letter doesn't come out in a capital, and it takes two or three attempts of pressing the A button for the phone to realise I want a capital letter.
The camera is good, not amazing but if i'm out and about without my camera it would give me a decent shot. However the side button on the left below what is the volume buttons, you have to hold it in for 2-3 minutes for the camera to come up. It's quicker for me to access it from the main panel.
The panels on the main screen, All and Frequent set themselves up, but I have yet to figure out how to set up the other panels particularly the favourites panel there's not a lot of information given on the phone. I also don't like the fact that you can't move things out of folders, like the Memo app and Calculator are in a separate "Applications" folder, and I either move the folder or move nothing.... Read more ›
To follow the instructions.
The old Blackberry battery issues have returned again! One charge can give me nearly 4 days minimal use and another charge will last me 4 1/2 HOURS with no use whatsoever except e-mails coming through! This really isn't acceptable since the same problems troubled the original Storm and Torch, I know, I've owned both of them and, yes, I close all apps, run it on 2G and turn the GPS off! Having had well over two years to remedy this Blackberry have failed abysmally! Update - I've now kept my phone on 2G and the battery has settled down now giving me 2 days moderate usage and 4 days light usage which is more than acceptable however when I change from 2G to 3G or back the battery drains very quickly (three to four hours from fully charged) until it gets its next charge when it goes back to normal! Weird or what?
My second real issue is that the new Torch doesn't support a lot of the apps that I had purchased for my old Torch. This is really annoying since a lot of the apps that I had were purchased rather than free and, although they are now saved away on Uninstalled Apps, in the App World (hopefully for future use) I can't run them on the new phone! I'm not sure whether this is because of the larger screen or whether it's the new operating system but it's a real pain!
On a more positive note the phone is an absolute delight to use! The new operating system is very intuitive and easy to use especially if you've used OS6. The camera, video recording, playback and sound are all excellent quality and the playback sound from the phone's speakers far exceeds the quality from my i-pod Touch's external speaker.... Read more ›
faster web experience to previous bbs but the two faults if you can call them that which can be really annoying... Read more
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