BlackBerry Torch Is 'Wonderfully Weird'

BlackBerry Torch, RIM’s new offering that combines the touchscreen of the iPhone with BlackBerry’s signature keypad, is “wonderfully weird,” Gizmodo says in its review. The gadget is still thin, even though the screen slides upward to reveal the keypad. The browser is faster. Social networking updates are integrated into the inbox. But its resolution is disappointing, at just 480x360 instead of the 800x480 on the iPhone and Droid. It’s weighted well so that typing is easy. Polls show that while most iPhone and Android users plan on keeping their phones, most Blackberry users plan on buying an iPhone or Android for their next phone—which could spell certain death for BlackBerry. The company has to decide whether its product is for business or for consumers, though the Torch seems to want to be both. “The Torch and BlackBerry OS 6 take what BlackBerry's already doing and move it forward slightly—they're not reinventing, overturning, or blowing up things,” Gizmodo says. “Even the sorta kinda half-crazy slider design of the Torch feels fundamentally like a BlackBerry, just a leeeeettle different.”