Wednesday, February 22, 2012

BlackBerry Torch 9860

Full touch from RIM Unlike it's predecessors from BBM, Torch 9860 is an all touch smart phone. It scarifies the much touted blackberry keyboard, but retains the multi touch trackpad, another trademark another trademark of BlackBerry devices.


     The front of the phone is made of glossy black plastic while the back is clad in gray rubber. Measuring 120x 62x 11.5 and weighing 135g, the phone feels well built and is good to hold.

     The front is covered by 3.7 inch capacitive touch-screen, four physical buttons and the trackpad. With a resolution of  480x800 and 252dpi density, the display is decent for a touchscreen smartphone.

     Like it's compatriots, Bold 9860 has two cameras: a basic one on the front for video telephony and a 5 megapixel main camera at the rare. A part from geo tagging and features like face detection, the camera has continuous auto focus and image stabilisation and records videos at 720p. It supports an impressive range of file formatsM4v, AVI, WMV, WMA, MP3, OGG, AAC, AMR, WAV, MID, and even flac. A bright LED flash helps shooting in the dark.

     Torch 9860 is runs BlackBerry OS 7 and is powered by a 1.2GHz processor and 768 MB of internal memory. In an earlier issue we have already discussed the logical yet impressive interface of BBM OS 7. It stands on its own against competing mobile operating systems.

   With Bold 9860 Black Berry has taken a big step towards an all-round smartphone. It may not be able to beat the likes of Samsung Galaxy SII and iPhone 4S, but it may succeed in keeping BBM fanboys at home. 

No comments:

Post a Comment