Today on D3Live we're going to be talking about the two brand new leaked
BlackBerrys, the BlackBerry Bold Touch and the BlackBerry Torch 2.
Now both of these devices are going to be a pretty incremental upgrade from
the previous generation of BlackBerrys is that both sport touchscreen displays.
Now of course this is nothing new for the Torch, that was going to be the big
next new BlackBerry, didn't really quite turn out too well however both of these
devices have pretty big upgrades so I'm going to go ahead talk a little bit about
what we know about them so far. So the first one is going to be the Bold Touch
which in my opinion is probably going to be the flagship of the BlackBerry line.
So of course everyone knows and loves the BlackBerry Bold, it's just got a
great keyboard, pretty much great across the board. However, as the name
implies the new Bold is going to have a touchscreen display. Now don't fear
it's still going to have the same, well it might be a little bit tweaked but it's going
to have still a very very good physical keyboard but in addition it's going to have
a 2.8 inch multitouch display. Now while 2.8 inches is definitely on the smaller
side, generally touchscreen displays need to be a little bit bigger for room to
do all of your multitouch gestures and all of that kind of good stuff, the BlackBerry
is going to be pretty good I think overall. Now the screen like I said is going
to be 2.8 inches, it's going to have a resolution of 640x480, very high resolution for like
I said
a pretty small display but where the real things are really going to start happening
it's going to have a 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor and 768MB of RAM.
So what this means is that BlackBerry OS 6.1 is going to absolutely scream on
this as well as on the Torch. So of course BlackBerry, obviously BlackBerry
tends to be a little bit of a lightweight operating system, not really needing the
dual core Tegra processors and all of that kind of stuff so I think a 1.2GHz processor
will be more than enough to make this thing absolutely fly. So the Bold Touch,
that looks really quite good and also let's go ahead and talk a little bit about the
Torch 2. So just like the Bold it's going to be a fairly small upgrade, it's not
going to anything major, it will have a 3.7 inch display with a resolution of 480x800
which is a nice upgrade. But where the most of the big things happened with the
Torch is with the specs. A lot of people kind of complained about the BlackBerry
Torch, the original one was because it just didn't have a whole lot of power, you
know it had a pretty weak processor and not a ton of RAM however they definitely
did remedy this with the Torch 2 with the same 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor
and 768MB of RAM. So overall I'm really looking forward to these two, I mean
I still think that BlackBerry really needs the brand new QNX operating system
which of course they're working on with the PlayBook, it eventually will come to the
phones but I think they definitely really do need to get that sooner or later
however this update with the much faster processor speeds and all of that kind
of stuff should definitely do a really good job of keeping everyone who is a
fan of BlackBerrys happy. Okay, so for the second segment of D3Live I'm
going to be taking live questions from everyone in the chat. As always every
episode of D3Live is filmed in front of a live audience, we've got quite a few
people in here right now and my dog so we're going to take a couple questions
and just kind of answer a few things. How much is the BlackBerry Bold Touch
going to be? Well the thing is with that is that this is a leaked rumor, I would
assume $200 on contract, same as 99% of all major new phones but we'll have
to wait and see probably the next month or so when they officially announce
exactly what the price will be on the BlackBerry Bold Touch. Do I think that it is
a little too late? That is a perfect question, if you guys have watched my videos
before you'll know I'm not a huge fan of BlackBerry in general, I think that basically
iOS, Android, I think all of these kinds of operating systems are really just hurting
BlackBerry a lot so I think that BlackBerry I think that these phones are going to
be nice, they're going to help but I really think that BlackBerry is not going to
really take back off and really try to make any positive headground, headroom
whatever the phrase is but I don't really think that BlackBerry is going to start
growing again and people are really going to start coming back to BlackBerry
until they get the new QNX operating system which of course is what they're
putting on the PlayBook, once they get that all worked out, hopefully fairly
soon, I would probably expect in the next year or so that they can get that
worked out. Anyway guys that's it for this week's episode of D3Live, if you
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