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In UK BlackBerry Torch 9800 Available from October 1st

Posted by admin | Aug 23, 2010 BlackBerry Development, News

BlackBerry Torch 9800 will now be available in the UK market. British online retailer eXpansys has listed the smartphone on their website. BlackBerry Torch 9800 is already available in the US market.

eXpansys is offering OS 6 BlackBerry Torch SIM-free for £570. Its schedule date is from 1st October. But, no network provider in the UK has come up with any announcement, when it should start offering branded models on contract. In the US, the BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone is available on the AT&T network.

The BlackBerry Torch 9800 comes with a 624 MHz processor, a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen display, portrait-sliding QWERTY keypad, an optical trackpad and a 5-megopixel camera with auto focus an a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels along with some other striking functions such as image stabilization, scene modes, geo-tagging and zoom.

An estimation that in US, 100,000-150,000 of BlackBerry Torch 9800 were sold during the first weekend of its launch.

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