The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is a first for RIM in a few different respects. It’s the first slider BlackBerry, the first to ship with BlackBerry OS 6 and the first BlackBerry to use a normal capacitive touchscreen. But is it a revolution for the series? We got hold of a pre-production mode to find out. Continue reading

BlackBerry snappers have lagged behind other camera phones for years, but we said the same about the iPhone series since it began in 2007, until the iPhone 4 surprised us by making up almost all of the lost ground this year. Does the Blackberry Torch 9800 do the same for the BlackBerry series? We took a look at a pre-production model to find out. Continue reading

The BlackBerry Torch 9800 may have grabbed headlines as the first BlackBerry slider phone, but we’re just as interested in the new version of the OS that debuts with the phone, BlackBerry OS 6. Does it have the chops of compete with Apple’s iOS 4 and Google’s Android 2.2? We took a long, hard look at a pre-production Torch 9800 to find out. Continue reading

The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is the first Blackberry phone to feature a standard capacitive touchscreen, but, unlike the Storm series phones, it doesn’t do away with the physical keyboard. So does the Blackberry Torch 9800 offer the best of both worlds? We got hold of a pre-production model to find out. Continue reading

The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is the first BlackBerry phone to use a slider mechanism. It looks like it’s going to meld the best bits of the BlackBerry Bold 9700 and the BlackBerry Storm 2, but what’s it like in the flesh? Read on for our initial impressions with a pre-production model. Continue reading

When a 3G dongle just isn’t quite enough, what you need is a mobile Wi-Fi solution. Vodafone has just released its new Mobile Wi-Fi solution, and we think may be the best yet. Continue reading

Phone buyers may pore over spec lists, trying to get as many megapixels and megahertz for their bucks, but without a decent operating system at the helm, specs mean almost nothing. The BlackBerry Curve 9300 uses BlackBerry OS 5, but is it getting a bit long in the tooth to compete with the top dogs? Continue reading

If you’re not into hardcore emailing, or at least fairly frequent SMS’ing, why bother with a BlackBerry? Physical keyboards are the BlackBerry series’s most renowned feature. But does the BlackBerry Curve 9300 continue the trend? We find out… Continue reading