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hey guys and gals Mike Perlman here for technobuffalo unboxing the blackberry torch 9850 for sprint this is the all-touch blackberry that I have waited for quite some time to get my hands on it is so big to me that is bigger than two people on a bicycle stay tuned for my full unboxing coming up after the break okay we're back in blackberry with the blackberry torch 9850 this is an exciting phone particularly because it has some of the most advanced hardware Rim has ever implemented in a phone it also is running blackberry 7 OS so we have enhancements in the hardware and the software realms let's start talking about the processor on this thing it's a 1.2 gig hurts Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and it has 768 megabytes of RAM we also have a 3.7 inch TFT capacitive multi-touch display that has a resolution of 480 to 800 which is wvga this phone has a 5 megapixel autofocus rear camera with an LED flash and it's capable of 720p HD video recording we have Wi-Fi b/g/n Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR there's NFC support on this bad boy as well this phone has a 1230 milliamp battery and well rather than me just spouting off specs and teasing you by taking the cover off ever so slowly let me just jump into this bad boy and there it is in all its glory the blackberry torch 9850 it is actually a beautiful looking phone in my opinion and I'm going to compare that here to my iphone 4 ok let's take its clothes off here and go skinny dipping and look how similar these phones are shove that to the side they're just so similar in dimensions however I like the styling of the blackberry torch better I think aesthetically it's more pleasing I love these gunmetal shiny gunmetal accents here and i love the thinness of this phone it is about the same thickness as an iphone stack them up here you can see and i just love the curved edges because i get holes in my pockets quite often and i think that can be attributed to the iphone 4s kind of rigid edges here so you could see i cracked my phone a little while ago anywhoozle this is very nice and I love the tangible buttons here we have a tangible send blackberry back and end / power button here we also have that classic blackberry optical trackpad as well the back of this phone is actually metal so unlike nearly every Android phone you see on the market this phone begs to differ with an actual metal backing here and here's that 12 30 ml amp battery I don't know how this is going to perform hopefully it will do well it's kind of on the light side there's four gigabytes of external storage via microSD card slot and this is the latch to pull the SIM card down so this phone actually has the capability to be a world phone so that is something to notice take note of to notice I noticed it and you're taking note of it one thing that I am apprehensive about this is something that John pointed out as well the volume control is very slim it's kind of hard to press in addition the mute button is located right in the middle so it looks as though it's easy to inadvertently press that I like the fact that we still have a function button up here and that is controlling I think it defaults to the camera speaking in the camera it's a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with 720p I already told you that okay so here is the lock button on the top very similar to the storm if I can recall in my opinion this is the phone that should have been the storm truly USB charging here okay you like that they have not gone proprietary will remain proprietary and that's a good thing let's try to power this phone on oh but before we do that let me show you what's in the box here oh my gosh my mind is all over the place these creative types their brains work in such sordid ways we have a getting started guide here okay so here is recycling for phones and batteries we have a connect me how to connect to the blackberry desktop software okay i miss the blackberry desktop software we have a minut charger here it's very similar to the iphone and we have a set of headphones as you can see focus there the uncomfortable type okay i'm gonna see if i could power this phone on here let's do some clever control here okay no I'm powering this phone on well there we have it there we have it apparently the rep who sent me this phone already got into the cookie jar here so that's a good thing does a very good thing we're jumping right into it I like it right away this is very nice blackberry 7 OS here and very quick this is not the blackberry of 23 years ago this is a blackberry that can actually handle web browsers let's check out the web here okay i was on youtube on a second year oh look at that okay technobuffalo there we go look at that pinching and zooming without any glitches without any lagging so I'm very excited about this phone I can't wait to review it it is very similar to the 9810 on AT&T the only difference is it's all touch so we're going to do with the all touch keyboard let me give you a sneak preview of that right now okay okay so we're here we have the keyboard okay let's turn it the other way I will say I might miss the physical keyboard I'm not exactly sure but we're just going to have to find out in my full review of the blackberry torch 9850 for sprint two hundred dollars after a 100-dollar mail-in rebate this phone looks like one of the hottest options on sprint's network especially if you are a fan of rim this is the time to revitalize your love of blackberry be sure to go to TechnoBuffalo com for more on this phone and my full review coming up eventually thank you so much for tuning in fellow buffalo herders and I will see you guys later