BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS November 2, 2010, 2010: – LIME today launched the new BlackBerry® Torch™ 9800 smartphone in St. Kitts & Nevis. Ideal for socially connected consumers and packed with the tools business customers love, the new handset offers elegant styling with top-of-the-line features and functionality. It’s the world's first smartphone to combine a BlackBerry® keyboard with a full touch screen experience and the first to feature the new BlackBerry® 6.
“The new Blackberry Torch has strong consumer appeal and reflects the evolution of BlackBerry smartphones as more than just a tool for email, to make phone calls and exchange messages on BBM. With consumer demands ever increasing, the added features and improvements of this smartphone will only serve to make the Blackberry experience more approachable, engaging and fun,” said Mr. David Smith, VP Marketing Communications.
Featuring an exciting combination of a large capacitive touch screen and optical trackpad with a backlit slide-out BlackBerry keyboard, it is designed to feel optimally balanced when opened for typing. It also offers support for high-speed 3G (UMTS/HSDPA) networks around the world, includes the latest generation in Wi-Fi® (b/g/n) connectivity and built-in GPS for location-based applications and geo-tagging.
Its 5 MP camera takes exceptional pictures with continuous auto focus, image stabilization, scene modes and zoom, and it also supports video recording. In addition, it comes with a combined 8 GB of media storage out-of-the-box, and includes a microSD/SDHD memory card slot that can bring the total storage memory to 36 GB for customers that want more.
The BlackBerry Torch is the first to launch with BlackBerry 6, a new operating system for BlackBerry smartphones. It features a redesigned interface, and a new and rich WebKit-based browser that renders HTML web pages (as well as HTML email) quickly and beautifully for a great browsing experience. The browser includes tabs for accessing multiple sites simultaneously, pinch to zoom and an auto-wrap text zoom feature that can intelligently wrap text in a column while maintaining the placement of a page's key elements (simply double-tap on the BlackBerry Torch).
BlackBerry 6 features a redesigned interface that seamlessly works with the touch screen and trackpad, includes expanded messaging capabilities with intuitive features to simplify the management of social networking and RSS feeds (Social Feeds), and provides integrated access to the BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™), Facebook®, Twitter™, MySpace™ and various instant messaging applications available on the BlackBerry Torch smartphone. A universal search feature allows users to search for content on the smartphone, as well as extend the search to the Internet or to discover applications on BlackBerry App World™, which is included and now supports credit card payments.
The BlackBerry Torch smartphone is available in LIME mobile stores in St. Kitts and in Nevis.
LIME also recently announced a new lower cost BlackBerry Social Plan, which gives users access to social networking sites like Facebook® and all the functionality of BBM at a minimal rate.
For more information visit www.blackberry.com/torch
