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Will you buy the new BlackBerry Torch?
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AT&T Mobility Chief Executive Ralph de la Vega holds the new BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone at a news conference in New York August 3, 2010. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Research in Motion unveiled its new smartphone, the Torch 9800 SMA, designed to compete more effectively against Apple’s iPhone and handsets based on Google’s Android software. The BlackBerry Torch will go on sale on August 12 for $199.99 with a two-year service agreement.
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$199 is too pricy. I will wait till RIM drops the price to $29 to $49 one day to buy it.
RIM has foolishly held on to the BBOS and continues to develop it. As more and more professionals start moving into iPhones and Android based phones, RIM faces being forgotten like, ironically, good ol’ 1990′s era Macintosh. On the hardware side, I admit, I miss BlackBerry terribly but it isn’t worth going back to them if they continue to use the BBOS.
RIM, please start using Android on your phones. I promise I’ll come back.
No…they went with AT&T. If they offered a different carrier I probably would
Yes i will buy it. I still think Blackberry is just the phone of choice for the business community, although I am loving Android. I used to be iphone fan, but no longer.
Blackberry is not bad but will soon be a dying Dinosaur.
No, because AT&T is garbage.
Not with AT&T. This disappoints me so much that I am not sure I will buy a BB product ever again. I guess its time to switch to an Android phone
I just bought a torch, I have recently had the Pearl, then Iphone, And now I have the Torch. It is an adjustment from the Iphone but I must say I like the Torch much better than the two previous phones. Yes better than the Iphone I had. If Apple wasnt so arrogant about its products maybe I would have stuck with it. I got mine for free online. ATT wanted $99 and I found online for free (www.vitelwireless.com) I paid way to much for my Pearl and Iphone so it was about time I got a Great phone for free.