Best of Both World: BlackBerry Torch 9800 from Celcom
Hello guys. I’m back for more. And this time, we’ll be talking about smart phone. As you might already know, Celcom has launched this phone back in October this year. To be specific, 29 October 2010. And there has been a one-day-only crazy deal going on at Bukit Bintang Entrance, Pavilion KL (3pm – 10pm) and they sold this sweet phone at just only RM8 to the first 10 customer, RM 488 to the next 100 customer and RM 888 to the following 100 customer. Awesome! Well, most of us did missed it. But I’m going to do this anyway. Here’s he details:
1-DAY ONLY CRAZY DEAL!!!!!
- Enjoy the Celcom BlackBerry Torch at CRAZY prices from as low as RM 8 when you sign up on the day with Celcom Exec or Celcom Biz plans!
- 1st 10 customers to sign up get it at RM 8!!!
- Next 100 customers get it at RM 488!!
- Following 100 customers get it at RM 888!
- ONLY LIMITED STOCK AVAILABLE and it’s FIRST COME FIRST SERVED…so get there as early as you can!
- Get FREE Limited Edition BlackBerry Torch Door Cover, FREE BlackBerry Torch hard casing plus FREE Call Me Tones for 1 month worth RM5, games, apps for BlackBerry®. Just Dial *118#, select STUFF FOR BLACKBERRY!
- Be part of the fastest, widest clearest mobile network in the country
- There’ll also be many other fun activities, prizes and giveaways on the day.
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After watching and reading tonnes of review on the Blackberry Torch 9800, I’ve came up with my own opinion on this awesome phone.
Attractive Features
This phone have all the power you need. The battery will get you through the day. It will do a straight 5.5 hours on GSM network signal and up to 5.8 UMTS network signal. That not enough for you? You’re kidding me. Nobody in the world talk for 5 hour straight. You must be crazy enough to do that. This phone have 18 days of standby time. This means that if you didn’t used the phone, the phone battery will last about 18 days. That’s a pretty long time for a phone I got to say. Music playback is approximately about 30 hours. Still not enough for you? C’mon guys. Name me one person who listen to music for 30 hours straight. It does a 6 hour hours straight on video playback. Well, video buffering does require lots of processing power. But, to me, and I think for most of us too, this is more than enough already. Which is really good to me.
Memory
This phone 512 MB of RAM. Mobile phone also have RAM. Don’t you know that? This phone have 4 GB of storage space on board and supplied with 4 GB memory card which can be expandable up to 32 GB. That a lot of space.
In practical use
Ok2. Let’s just stop talking about the on paper stuff about this phone. If you want to know more about the technical stuff about this phone, click BlackBerry Torch 9800. Let’s talk about the practical stuff on this phone. The very first feature that you will notice on this phone is the large multitouch screen. Yeah, it is large for a Blackberry device. And it multitouch too! You cab expect all the multi touch gesture would do a a multitouch device like the pinch-to-zoom and all that kind of stuff. The other feature is the QWERTY keyboard that you see on the previous Blackberry devices. The keyboard on the Torch is also the thinnest keyboard design in the BlackBerry platform and extremely comfortable to type on. It already has the multitouch capabilities. So why does it need the hardware version of the keyboard itself? For some user, just using the screen only is the best solution for them. But for some user like me, I like it to be hardware oriented keyboard so that I can type on the phone without looking at the phone itself. For example, when I’m in a class or when in bed. This is what the Torch is all about. This feature is really is an impressive to me. I know some of you might say you’ve seen some devices that have this kind of functionality already. But the point is how well the multitouch performs on those devices? I have seen some too but it’s a single touch device and the screen is not very touchable too. I mean, it is quite hard to use the touch feature on that phone. On this device, you will get the full and proper multitouch experience like what I said previously. Scroll on web pages smoothly, flip through menu, pinch to zoom the picture. It’s just flawless. Second of all, the fact that this device uses the BlackBerry 6 OS also an interesting features for me. “A good device is a device that have good both hardware and software design”. The quote really represents this device. The BlackBerry 6 OS is just fast and easy to use. It also includes some advance feature that you can personalize it by yourself. The software side of this phone is just fits most people needs. Word processing, note taking, planner, email, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, multimedia experience. Just name it, this BlackBerry Torch 9800 can do it. Just don’t mention all the editing stuff like Photoshop and After Effect. Who would want to do some Photoshop on screen this big? This awesome OS can do multitask! Nice! Switch between Apps flawlessly. And the browser which provided on this phone does support multi-Tab browsing experience. Perfect tools for a person lime me of course. BTW, I got to admit that this phone is a bit heavy compare to other BlackBerry devices, but the weight actually makes it feels sturdy and solid when you hold it in your hand. You got to hold it to feel it. Its a high quality device which equipped with amazing 5MP camera. What more can I say.
I highly recommend this phone for you guys especially to those who is in the Tech industry. If you want to get it, make sure you get it from Celcom because they offer the best price for this phone in this country. And not to mention, best customer support for phone too with widest coverage in Malaysia.
