Remember when you had a crush on the BlackBerry Torch 9800, not long ago? You got kind of bored of it eventually, didn’t you? Well, prepare for even stronger feelings, because its improved version is here to win your heart and make its predecessor jealous and envious on its skills. Enters BlackBerry Torch 9810, let's take a look:
Key features:
• Enhanced email and data security
• 3.2" 16M-color TFT touchscreen of VGA resolution (480 x 640 pixels)
• QWERTY slider
• Quad-band GSM support and tri-band 3G with HSDPA
• Wi-Fi b/g/n connectivity
• GPS receiver and BlackBerry maps preloaded, digital compass
• 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and a LED flash
• HD video recording, 720p@30fps
• Single-core 1.2GHz processor
• 768MB RAM
• 8GB of inbuilt storage
• BlackBerry OS v7
• Fast boot functionality (if you don't remove the battery)
• Optical track pad
• Hot-swappable micro SD card slot (up to 16GB)
• DivX and Xvid video support
• Office document editor
• 3.5 mm audio jack
• Smart dialing
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When opening its box, you’ll find the charger, micro USB cable, headset and a polishing cloth. Yeah, I know no micro SD card? No. But the phone has 8 GB of internal storage, doubling the size of the 9800.
At first glance, you’ll say that the phones aren’t so different. Well, that’s because they look very similar. They share the same measures: 111 x 62 x 14.6 mm and the same weight: 161g. I bet the 9800 feels quite relieved that it’s not fatter than its replacement, it would’ve been another reason to feel sad for the already depressed fellow. The difference stands in the case, which seems to be glossier, but the materials used when being designed remained the same. It’s all made of plastic, but it stands pretty far from giving the impression of being cheap. Inheriting its predecessor’s qualities, this phone is also well built and feels comfortable in the hand and also in the pocket.
The device comes with a 3.2 inches TFT capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 480 x 640 pixels. It’s highly responsive, the sunlight legibility is great and the viewing angles are also good. What more can you ask?
Below the screen, you’ll see the classical controls for Call, Menu, Back, End call and the optical track pad in the middle. The slider is fine and solid, it runs smooth and I don’t think you’ll be having any problems with it after using it for a big amount of time. The QWERTY keyboard is very comfortable to use and will help big time when texting.
Above the display, you’ll see the earpiece, proximity sensor and the status LED. The left side hosts only the micro USB port, while the right side is home to three rubbery buttons: the volume keys and the convenience one, which serves as a shutter key, by default, but you can assign it any other task.
At the top you’ll find the suite of hidden keys, with the Lock key and the Mute key that also serves as a Play/Pause button when listening to music or watching videos. The bottom is bare. On the back is the 5 megapixel camera lens with its single LED flash companion.
The BlackBerry 9810 comes with OS 7, which brings some new features, is faster than OS 6 and the user interface also looks better than the previous version, being very similar to the BlackBerry PlayBook. The “brain” has also been updated with a more powerful processor, of 1.2 GHz, more RAM – 768 MB and the internal storage has been doubled – 8 GB. The phone runs smoothly through the interface and you won’t have lag problems.
When it comes to telephony, this phone is great, the voice quality is excellent and the same story goes for the reception. Smart dial is here and you also have Voice dialing through the Universal Voice Search.
The phone is also a master when it comes to messaging, you can send SMS, MMS, emails and you also have some instant messaging applications preinstalled. As I’ve said before, the pleasant texting experience is completed with the classic QWERTY keyboard.
The connectivity package is also rich, you have here dual-band Wi-Fi, quad-band GSM, GPRS, EDGE support, the 3G grants extra speed with 14.4 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP. The Wi-Fi hotspot is also available.
Browsing on this phone will be wonderful, as it comes with an improved browser, which is very fast, has multi-touch zooming, panning, scrolling, text selection, a virtual mouse cursor when using the track pad for navigation and others. No Flash support.
The phone’s 5 megapixel camera comes with autofocus, a LED flash and takes photos at a maximum resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels. It offers several scene modes and has geotagging support. The image quality is great, as the contrast is good and the colors are accurate and bright, as they’re supposed to be.
The video camera shoots 1280 x 720px at 30 fps videos and uses the LED for lighting. The video quality is also amazing, I was quite impressed.
The music player supports MP3, WAV, WMA and comes loaded with Album art and some equalizer presets. The audio quality is okay.
The video player is also satisfying, having support for MPEG-4, WMV, MOV, DivX, XviD videos up to 720p resolution.
The phone is packed with a lot of useful applications. Quick Office allows you to view Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files. Editing is also available, but not for PDF documents. You also have BlackBerry Protect, which can locate your phone if you lose it or it gets stolen and lock it and erase the information, after transferring it to another BlackBerry device. You also have a Voice recorder, Password Keeper, Stopwatch, Timer and others. For socializing, you have the Social Feeds, Facebook and Twitter applications preinstalled. If wanting to download some new apps, feel free to access the BlackBerry App World.
The phone comes with a GPS receiver with A-GPS support. For navigation, you have the BlackBerry Maps preinstalled, but if you guys are not friends, you can download Google Maps.
The Torch 9810 comes with a 1270 mAh battery that will last a day of intensive usage. I’ve taken a lot of pictures of my cat, shot a movie clip when it was sleeping and snoring, listened to music while jogging, made a lot of calls, sent some emails and spent some time on Facebook. It survived all these and was still alive later in the night, but I guess it died when I was sleeping.
My final words are that this phone is definitely worth buying if you want a great tool for messaging, telephony, pictures, videos and browsing. It will pleasantly surprise you with its performance and it’ll be a keeper.
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