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Australia’s Optus has joined Canada, the U.S., U.K., and others by launching the BlackBerry Torch 9800 today. Optus is offering the Torch for free with a $AUS 79 monthly plan on a two-year contract. For now, it’s only available to small and medium business customers, but seeing as their only personal BlackBerry for sale is the Curve 3G, I would suspect the 9800 would make the jump sooner than later.
The BlackBerry 9800 is RIM’s current top-of-the-line smartphone, packing a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, 3.2″ HVGA capacitive touchscreen, optical trackpad, physical portrait-oriented QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi b/g/n, GPS, and 3G over HSPA. The 9800 also runs OS 6, a significant upgrade that introduces a WebKit browser, universal search for local and web content, and a whole slew of UI updates.
Head over to the Optus online store to pick up your own BlackBerry Torch, Aussies.
[via Optus]
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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
