In all it’s glory

Looks Are Important...

Hardware Deets Include:

• A slick slide-out QWERTY keyboard, comfortable and satisfyingly clicky, for those of us who like that kind of thing 
• An slippery and accurate optical track pad, much better than the more awkward rollerball options
• A pretty solid feel- not slippery and slidey like other smart phones
• Height: 5.83 inches
• Width: 2.44 inches
• Thickness: .58 inches
• Weight: 5.7 ounces
• Display Screen: 3.2 inches, with 480 x 360 pixel resolution and 65k color

Just like your new boyfriend, OS Blackberry 6 takes you where you never could go before

...But It’s What’s Inside That Counts

The Torch is the first out-of-box phone to arrive with the new operating system- Blackberry 6. Blackberry 6 has a whole slew of cool features that I never had the pleasure of knowing during my Blackberry Pearl days. These include:

• A Full HTML Browser, much prettier than before, that flips from horizontal to vertical, depending on how you hold it
• Blackberry’s signature “The Incredible Hulk”-like e-mail with Push technology, so it’s delivered to you as frequently as you like
• The obvi productivity tools like a calendar, alarm clock, caller ID, organizer
• Universal Search- Search your entire phone for a tiny word or sentence fragment! As you type in the Universal Search Bar, it narrows it down further and further for you- much better than Microsoft Outlook could do.
• Multitasking (so you can talk to your kid and look at pictures of him at the same time)
• Integrated social networking capabilities, making for much cuter tweeting and facebooking than before- you can even post one comment to all your social networking sites at once
• BBM, a staple for those of us who have friends
• Texting, with SMS, MMS, Video clip texting and location/map texting- so you can send pics of your idol Stephenie Meyer shopping in a mall along with a map to all your other Twi-hard friends
• Sonic the Hedgehog, Bejeweled, Word Mole and Brick Breaker (the best four games I’ve ever seen arrive pre-loaded to a phone)
• Customizable ring tones, wallpaper, menus, pop-ups, and icons
• Aesthetically-pleasing music player with cover art you flip through like a jukebox
• The ability to stream radio
• iTunes syncing capabilities
• Bluetooth technology- Don't get yourself arrested by messing with your phone while driving, ye hear?

Isn't it pretty?

Other Highlights & Special Features

• 3G Coverage, obviously a necessity
• Superb call quality and speakerphone (for those of us who still actually call people) with call waiting, call forwarding and Caller ID
• Answer tones, so your pals can hear Eminem every time they call you
• 5 Megapixel Autofocus Camera with 2.7x Zoom
• Live video capture and playback
• Battery Capacity of 1300 mAHr. In layman's terms, that means up to 5.5 hours of talk time and up to 14 days of standby

So what do I think? Read on to find out the best and worst feature...