Surfing the net is smooth. I've come onto RS and posted a few times lol. Youtube hasn't been a problem that i've noticed too much. I've watched Dragon Ball and some other things and it's been fine. I like that the arrow is around and u can scroll around with it like a mouse.

Just picked one up yesterday, pretty awesoome phone I must say!!

Browsing is smooth, but loading times is a bit slow on data intensive sites. Its definitely do-able for me though as being able to type faster makes up for that. All in all, the whole build quality is really good!!
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Rogers BlackBerry Torch 9800 will “begin arriving” on September 27th, online ordering available on the 24th

The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is coming to Canada, just not as fast as expected. Bell and Virgin have pushed this back until October 1st, TELUS has remained silent on the matter and Rogers has stuck to their guns about launching on the original date of September 24th.

Thanks to one of our tipsters for letting us know about an internal bulletin that went out tonight. Here’s the deal. Rogers will launch the Torch 9800 on the 24th through online ordering but the physical device will not be available for sale at retail locations. The Torch will “begin arriving” at stores during the week of September 27th and units will be in short supply but stores can take orders.

Pricing is as follows:
Outright $609.99
MTM SRP $559.99
1 Year SRP $559.99
2 Year SRP $559.99 (voice only)
2 Year SRP $529.99 (voice+data)
3 Year SRP $499.99 (voice only)
3 Year SRP $449.99 (voice + data)
3 Year SRP $199.99 (promo v+d)

**Promotional price available to 3 year Voice and Data activations with a minimum combined monthly service fee of $45, or 3 year Voice Plan & 3 year Data Sharing Plan, or 3 year Voice & Data Sharing Plan or 3 year $40 Blackberry Social Networking Plan.

http://mobilesyrup.com/2010/09/22/ro...e-on-the-24th/

Those prices are such bullshit
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didnt they like lower the price to $99 in the states cause of poor sales?

Only Amazon had that price. Everyone else is selling at the $199 i believe.

still 500 USD at walmart

I finally got to hold this thing and see how it feels in my hands.
It's pretty nice I think, I got no idea what ppl are talkin about saying it's top heavy seems fine to me also someone said here or another site that he couldn't open his phone with 1 hand lol it's simple there's no problem. The phone was a demo (dummy) so I'm not sure if they make them any different.

-the slider seemed good
-the buttons sorta seem like there about to peel off tho there really week. (I'm talking about the top buttons like the call, back, and blackberry one)
-the keyboard isn't hard to type on, I thought it would be difficult bx of the amount of space but it's pretty simple. Maybe the keys are just stiff but they seemed hard to push in, not as nice and soft as pushing in the 9000 or 9700 keys.

But so far this phone seems alright I'm going to go to bestbuy tomorrow if my friend tells me they've got it running and give it a complete try out
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u used a dummy to tell you how well the phone will be..or that its top heavy....man i question your judgement there buddy..

btw..no bestbuy will have this in till next week, its been delayed.

so did anyone get it today, any good review's and how did stock seem?

I personally thought it was a solid product, felt great in hand, weight was nice too. OS seemed pretty good as well.

was it even released today? I was reading on crackberry that it seems like most places didn't get it.

^ Im talking from my experience playing around with a fully functional one in the states.

Lol, people add their bbm to the phone, so i was looking through it and all these people keep asking, is anyone there? and then you can see some convos with random people at the store playing around with the phone.

its comin out on the 30th

o rly?

Best Buy has it their ad this week, not sure bout Futureshop though
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so it's out today anyone getting it?

ordered mine through retentions with rogers for $179

visions has it for $148 on a 3 year with bell

does flash work on this phone?

No it doesn't

just ordered one via rententions. cant wait!!
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I picked mine up from the Poco Costco today. Not bad at all I just dont have a clue how to transfer over all my info

^ how much at costco to buy it straight out?

I didn't ask how much, I just renewed my contact and it was $200

i just got mine today
love the weight, feels solid
one of the biggest thing i missed about my N91 was how solid it felt.
The 9000 Bold felt too flimsy

however, the one thing i dont like about the torch so far is the keyboard...feels too "thin" i'm always worried that i'm gonna break it. but i'm sure i'll get used to it

got it for $200 as a hardware upgrade at Tbooth in richmond center.