BlackBerry Torch 9800 Price: $ 199.99
BlackBerrys are not generally famous for their cameras, so it was a pleasant surprise to find the Torch boasts an excellent camera, with five megapixels, auto-focus, LED flash and face recognition. Choose to take pictures in portrait or landscape mode - the five virtual icons along the bottom of the viewfinder are easy to find with your thumb and offer album, geo-tagging, capture key, flash and scene setter. The flash in particular is impressive, producing some really good low-light and night-time images - although we found it better to switch it off - particularly indoors - rather than have it in auto mode as it has a tendency to go off when not needed. There a quickstart key on the side of the Blackberry Torch 9800 - press it and you'll be ready to take a picture in less than three seconds - that's pretty fast for a smartphone. If you're not much of a snapper, you can alter the dedicated key to start up the music player or browser if you wish.
The battery life on the Blackberry Torch was impressive. Naturally, like other similar handsets, if you have a number of apps and features running, it's going to use a lot of power, but we managed to get three days' use out of it, with social network notifications and push email turned on. Mind you, RIM reckons that push notifications save battery power, because you don't need to start up applications to the read your updates and messages.
BlackBerry users are a loyal bunch, as RIM has discovered. Once a BlackBerry user, pretty much always a BlackBerry user, whether they favour the QWERTY keyboards of the Bold and Curve ranges, Pearl's SurePress facility, or the Storm handsets with their touch-screens. Despite this popularity, RIM has never really managed to crack the mainstream market, something which it is trying to do with the BlackBerry Torch series, with not only the new operating system, but a touch-screen, AND a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
BlackBerrys are not generally famous for their cameras, so it was a pleasant surprise to find the Torch boasts an excellent camera, with five megapixels, auto-focus, LED flash and face recognition. Choose to take pictures in portrait or landscape mode - the five virtual icons along the bottom of the viewfinder are easy to find with your thumb and offer album, geo-tagging, capture key, flash and scene setter. The flash in particular is impressive, producing some really good low-light and night-time images - although we found it better to switch it off - particularly indoors - rather than have it in auto mode as it has a tendency to go off when not needed. There a quickstart key on the side of the Blackberry Torch 9800 - press it and you'll be ready to take a picture in less than three seconds - that's pretty fast for a smartphone. If you're not much of a snapper, you can alter the dedicated key to start up the music player or browser if you wish.
The battery life on the Blackberry Torch was impressive. Naturally, like other similar handsets, if you have a number of apps and features running, it's going to use a lot of power, but we managed to get three days' use out of it, with social network notifications and push email turned on. Mind you, RIM reckons that push notifications save battery power, because you don't need to start up applications to the read your updates and messages.
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