Hardware

A lot of people will agree that the BlackBerry Torch 9850 is not a good-looking phone. They say it follows the concept of a “waterfall” with its design lines but the glass curving down over the 3.7 inch WVA screen and the body is ruined by the four oddly shaped buttons and optical touchpad on the bottom. Flip over the phone and the gunmetal band over the matte section is a nice touch.

Open the phone and you have the battery and the slot for the microSD to beef up the 4GB built in one. This smart phone makes use of the 1.2GHz of processor, Liquid Graphics engine , and 78 MB RAM.

The Torch 9850 comes with a 5 MP camera that has an autofocus which actually subjects users to taking shots which are out of focus. Users can capture videos at720p.

Software

The Torch 9850 comes with the OS7 for BlackBerry similar to the 9330. The 9850 though lacks a useful home screen as it is only good for the wallpaper and not for any shortcut or widget. The system will also give you an on screen keyboard which is a squarish enough to be similar to the physical BlackBerry keyboard.

The phone also comes with Documents To Go and a new browser that goes well with HTML5.

Nokia is not the leading provider in the way of smartphones, but I think that their sales are going to skyrocket as soon as people find out that Microsoft Office Mobile has teamed up with Nokia and it is going to be on every single smartphone that Nokia produces – per their contract of course.  The great thing about Microsoft Office Mobile is that at work … I use Microsoft office all of the time and now – now you will be able to get all of those documents right on your phone!

This particular office is going to contain Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote – all of which I use on a daily basis.  I am so excited about this and I can not wait for it to happen!