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what's up everyone jon rettinger and technobuffalo here is a full review for you of the AT&T touchscreen qwerty hybrid blackberry torch I begin all my phone reviews talking about call quality if the phone doesn't make good phone calls it's not going to be much use to you doesn't matter how good email or web browsing is going to be phone calls me our paramount to the success of the device on a lot of other 18t films I've texts really been no call quality issues I've been crystal clear no white noise or teeny sound on either end the blackberry torch did have a bit of popping cracking and there was definitely some tinny sounds on mine and the colors other side of it something to keep in mind on the ink call volume while definitely loud is not as loud as other phones are tested in the past so if you're a bit hard of hearing or you like just loud and calls you're definitely going to want to try this out before you pick it up a speakerphone offer was definitely quite loud and really usable in the car on the flip side of the coin the reception this thing pulls it is fantastic on other devices other AT&T devices where I usually got maybe two bars and 3g those fringe service areas this was pulling in almost four or five bars of 3g so if you're in sort of an outskirt 3g area it's definitely gonna be a phone or gonna want to check out it's going to get probably the best reception of any AT&T phone out there right now so let's jump into the review of the phone I'm not going to go over every feature of OS 6 which is what the blackberry torch is running I've did a whole video star recapping all those features let's talk about what's most important and this is a blackberry certainly it has a touch screen but makes a blackberry blackberry is this guy the full slide out keyboard very reminiscent of what we seen on the bold devices and this is a fantastic typing experience I used to be a pretty dedicated blackberry user and I forgotten how much I really like having a full qwerty keyboard this is definitely one of the best if you've used a bold new path and definitely be familiar there's not as much a throw on the keys as there aren't some other device that's because it's a slider and the keyboards got to be a bit there to slide in and out however it is very good and works really really really well and I got used to a very quick myself actually missing a corded keyboard now that's not the only way to input text here on the blackberry you have an on-screen keyboard as well which works pretty decently and black gray is definitely updated the autocorrect sure as well it's not something nice to see if you a lot of texting or emailing some of the features that I really like about the torch is the built-in integration with social media so there's now you can see I've got a built-in twitter app facebook myspace already built into the device knows across here is notification so about 107 unread emails one voicemail that little orange icon at social media and RSS feeds and such and then Facebook so you can pull in all of this notification information you go in tap that top part I've got some personal stuff in there so I'm not going to show it but you get sort of a full list of all notifications actually i'll just block out the bottom and i'll show you here you can see it's sort of all comes up very nice then you can see pretty easily everything that you have going on tap it to get rid of it I really just worked perfectly and as a great wave notifications I thought that REM really needed their notification system other than a blinking LED or envelope that they had in previous devices this works very well certainly on par with the android tab be pulled down from the top or notifications window great way to switch profiles as well makes it nice and easy go ahead and tap that select what you'd like and you get right to your wireless settings by tapping the top part choose your network Wi-Fi Bluetooth all the rest of that stuff are all pretty handy now this phone is not without its quirks being a first-generation os6 device things don't always work very well you can resize this here with notifications of what it shows oftentimes well those resizing on ahead and freeze on me and would just go away and I couldn't see any icons actually have to pull the batter and restart the device now certainly with a software update I soon this will all be fixed but it is worthwhile I'm noting that if you are going to use this device you're going to run into a bit of bugs nothing that's going to really hinder your overall usage something to be prepared for I'm thinking about the notifications here this is really what makes os6 quite nice are the icons rather that you can customize what you like so you can view all favorites you can set their favorites if like media you can view a media on here we'll talk about media in just a min downloads is there certainly a new blackberry application store here so you can download sort of new applications something to keep in mind though a lot of the applications that are found on the blackberry app world don't work again with OS 6 of things that you're used to using a friends I've got google maps right here doesn't work very well so you may run into a problem of broken apps with OS six sort of as the manufacturers and developers work to update their code something to keep in mind and again you can be sized anyway like if you want to show two rows or one row remember how you last at it you can show all of them or show none and have it just sort of hide it you can pull it up and show whatever you'd like I like to I Eva says my daily driver for a little over a week and I really enjoyed it I found two rows of icons with the all was really the best way to go for me email is very typical blackberry the menu system is really what you'd expect things have just been redone a bit for touch so it go into options you can see now the menu system isn't so listy you can now actually use your finger and tap what you'd like now if you're not used to using a touchscreen to blackberry you never have to use a touch screen at all there is a five-way touchpad here so you can go up down left right and select it in to do all your navigation but you'll see that things are pretty different go ahead and go to display things are now grouped go ahead and select whatever you like and subs larger and finger friendly so let's jump into the browser a little bit that's something that's really important to mobile phone users something that RIM was really really really deficient in they had an awful web browsing experience we've actually bought a company that makes a webkit-based browsers and web kit the same sort of let's say underpinnings that Apple using the iphone and that Google uses an Android so a really really solid web experience and it's about what you'd expect here it works very well a multi touch enabled you get pinch and zoom it actually web page render times are quicker on the blackberry and they are on an iphone for example however the processor can always keep up with the render speed of the browser so you get a bit of a slower experience that's preeminent of the torch overall it's limited by the hardware its processor clocked at 600 about 24 megahertz now processor speed doesn't always mean everything black braid is a really nice job at memory management so using things overall using email text messaging is going to be very quick and zippy we really noticed as slow of the slowness of the process there's going to be in the web browsing when it comes to viewing media as well can definitely be a bit choppy something to keep in mind so go ahead and exit out of here and there is also no support for html5 or flash I'm not really going to be able to view any embedded media or any really embedded content anyway at least as of yet on the blackberry torch I'm going to jump over to meet you here I mentioned that this is touchscreen enable so you can't pinch and zoom your way around photos pinch and zoom it's got its own built-in YouTube player which really just launches a YouTube mobile in the web browser that's about all it is it works well it's not the best of screen resolutions not necessarily so high but it does work very well for viewing web pages and connect pictures on the back speaking of pictures you have a 5 megapixel camera which does have a bit of auto focus in it and LED flash first time room is really show them that they're putting their force behind a decent camera and it's the best blackberry camera that I've seen certainly not gonna take any Ansel Adams s pictures with this we just want to snap a few shots of you and your friends out of the club it's going to get the job done certainly wouldn't print them out and make a poster size but for quick phone snapshots it does work one problem i did have with the device often times i had a hard time sliding it up without selecting anything there isn't really a Ledge to sly yet to actually touch the screen to slide it up sometimes I would select applications or if I slid it up by the bottom I'd selecting put the trackpad I've got to be a bit difficult sometimes something to keep in mind as well when you're considering the torch long as you can use the sides and slide it up you have to find a way the best work for you but sometimes I find myself inadvertently launching application something to bear in mind so overall I was actually very happy with the torch I think it's definitely the best a blackberry currently on the market I've gone on the record and say I wasn't the biggest fan of storm devices this does not have the sure press keyboard doesn't click it's a very traditional capacitive touchscreen you touch it there's no depressing of the screen at all just like you find on Android palm pre or an iPhone it's for a similar experience and it does work very well I think rim is definitely on the right track here with Oh at six and the torch I wish you had a bit of a faster processor and I wish there was support for at least html5 content I think we sort of saw those two things the web browsing would be a much better experience and it's definitely being better around a device overall though I was very very happy with there was definitely a few shortcomings on a one-to-five scale I give it a very very very solid three and three-quarter stars for emails is going to do one of the best email experiences you're going to get because it's a black bear and it just works very well coming from an iphone I really appreciate the email management that you can do on a blackberry it really shows that efficient Apple's email client is one other last bit of gripe that I had i use google calendars and contacts for sinking back and forth and it wasn't really a native way to sync here actually had a download google sync and then sync my contacts and sync my calendar that way so it's a bit of another step to go but it will sink of all your google stuff that's what you use because like to hear what you think about the torch do you like it not like it as of right now it's going to set you back one hundred ninety nine dollars on eighteenth you the two-year contract my time you watch this video very very very well may be cheaper so for exclusive content should mad at twitter twitter.com / john for lakers and if all your tech news be sure to check out TechnoBuffalo calm you can make your own sub blog you can put in your own ad code make a couple of bucks and talk to users and our vault and social network i'm jon rettinger and i will see you or talk to you in the next video goodbye you you