First!

Grrrrrrr.............first matey!!!

Salivating... I can see a Swype import coming!

P.S. Sprint, please announce price and release date because I have MO'NAYYYY to spend! ;0)

Waiting for my storm to pass so I can hold up the torch :D

Since when is this the Torch??? Torch has a slider...

i think this guy is using PB to record the video thats why the video keeps pausing.little bug

Forget Sprint this bad boy better be coming to Verizon, needing an upgrade soon, I would even pay full price.

Please announce a release date soon. My Storm rebooted 4 consecutive times today while i was at work, and when it was finished the battery was flashing red

this looks neat

Wow, this 'STORM 3' looks pretty zippy!

Weren't they supposed to out the date today? I've been harassing them all day on twitter cause as far as I was concerned, that tweet they sent out yesterday was pretty self explanatory. It's 9:45pm and still nothing. Terrible. But nevertheless, this Monaco looks fabolous. And the kyeboard looks better then the torch's keyboard.

please add a slider/physical keyboard to this and i'll be first in line to buy one. otherwise, i'll pass

RIM can't build anything right can they?!

wtf?!! if you're going to build something that sexy, you had better build in a feature to enable fornitcation.

I need to see more videos showing me what OS7 is better than OS6. Without the physical keyboard, this device is not making me jealous at all. I'll hang onto my Torch for a good while longer.

No physical keyboard...no new Torch for me - guess my 9800 will be the first & last Torch I use. Gonna go with the Bold 9900 (unless there's Torch version that comes with PK - then's it's a delimma for me - ha!).

I'm still torn on this or the Bold 9930.

Ok, let's go through this again, since it's not sinking in.
Torch 2 9810 = update of 9800, physical keyboard + touchscreen
Torch 9850/9860 = full touchscreen, no physical keyboard.

Yes they are all being called a Torch.

I wish there was some sort of audible feedback - like the playbook keyboard.

I can only shake my head, the BB line(s) becomes even more incomprehensible!

So now there is going to be two "Bolds" without a second name that are slightly different sizes but both with keyboards and both what people typically think of when they hear "Blackberry." Then there are two "Blackberry Bold TORCHES" where the one with the bigger model number is actually missing the keyboard all together. Then they'll likely be a couple of Curves lying around that are cheaper, have a cameras with the same number of pixels, but no immediately apparent reason why they costs less. None will be labeled 3 or 4G, although the GSM phones might be 3.5. And as a final blow the better "Bold" products come out first, so when the curves show up they'll be newer yet less powerful!

Huh?

But it's ok, there is a tablet that goes with all this that's joined with something called "bridge" that sorta kinda is like tethering but it really isn't, except you can't get email or your calender without bridging, and can't access the web without tethering or Wifi, except of course if you're using the Bridge Browser and on a carrier that lets you use the Bridge Browser without considering it tethering, except it isn't tethering it's bridging, and therefore slower.

AND if you're in a 3rd party store that sells CDMA and GMS flavors of the same BB's for ATT and Verizon you have to realize the model numbers for the CDMA phones are 10-30 more than the GSM counterparts, but otherwise identical. And what ever you do DON'T look at the prepaid phones, those Curves that cost more and are older...

Half-Baked ideas, no matter how good, are still raw in the middle!!! Get it together BB!!!

+100. lol

RiM just release the damn phone:( These teaser videos are making it worse. I year ago I wanted this phone and I still do. But it seems to me that this envy of replacing my current storm will pass if it just doens't come out.

And RIM the sooner this get's relase the better it will be at Chritsmas. 0$ on a 3 year contrat from Telus, yes I'm a dreamer...

I can't wait to get this when it comes out next February!

Man, that phone is fast!

Nice looking phone but i'm not sure if i should be happy. Single core processor and no word on 4G...

Viet Nam

Wow that is FAST !
No lag there ..... now .... what else would we want this phone to do?

Tap into our PlayBook that is in our car so that we can warm it up in the winter before we go in it?

Wait new phones were. Supposed tto. Be announced. Today, why the hell is it not still announced ?

Hmm, impressive that there wasn't an hourglass every flippn minute :) But the one thing I would have wished to see is whether or not the so-called browser is actually a real browser. Browsing the internet on a BB is anything else but fun - I wonder if this has been rectified in OS 6.1 aka 7.0 (rolls eyes).

Wow! Quite impressed by the speed.

It looks like a LG Cookie, they should had kept the slide keyboard

where is suretype? I love suretype man. Is that even an option on the current torch or is it a storm exclusive?

I like this device... but i can't live without the physical keyboard.
I might get the Torch 2 or wait for QNX devices

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/07/27/blackberry-torch-9860-images-eme...

Research in Motion may be building itself a quiet ‘Storm’ as it moves its Verizon-branded BlackBerry Storm franchise to a more carrier-agnostic edition of the touchscreen slate BlackBerry Torch 9860 smartphone. The Torch 9860 is most recently seen with an AT&T-branded wallpaper, though AT&T branding isn’t found on the hardware. Given that AT&T has a strong relationship with BlackBerry-maker RIM, and the device will support 3G on the carrier’s network, the Torch 9860 could very well join the Torch slider on AT&T’s GSM network.

In addition to AT&T, T-Mobile is said to also be getting this device as well for its HSPA+ network as early as this week.

The BlackBerry Torch 9860 will support NFC for near field communications, a 1.2 GHz processor, high resolution–for a RIM smartphone device–3.7-inch WVGA display.

Unlike the Torch that was released earlier for AT&T, this one isn’t a slider and will be a touchscreen-only, slate-styled smartphone running the latest BlackBerry 7 operating system.

It’s unclear if a CDMA version of the Toch 9860 will make to Verizon Wireless with the current Torch branding or with a Storm branding.

Being a pearl user for so many years I really got hooked on the suretype compacted keyboard. I loved how the verizon BB storm still kept this in the virtual keyboard. I was a beast on that, this may slow me down. My only real concern is the battery life. Otherwise this thing is tits!

TORCH and TOUCH sound too much alike. Sumpin has to give. You can touch the TOUCH but NOT with the slide out key pad. The unlock keys are too touchy.. Should have more resistance or be inset to be less accident prone to undesired actions.
If Verizon gets the Touch, I may yield my Torch to the Touch...

Ugly.

Oh RIM...' Great new Identity huh...

The Texting Methode Close with the android.. and The picture Zoom In And Out closed Like Apple..Pinch..

Yeaz... This tinhte.vn . Viet Nam. My country :D

I hate virtual keyboards.