HANDS ON WITH BLACKBERRY TORCH 2

RIM BlackBerry Torch 2 happens to have a clear cut design similarity with the original handset. However, looking past the surface and deeper into its hardware, there’s something beating much faster under the hood that’s going to supply the handset some much needed processing power. It will be packing on a serious 1.2GHz processor with hardware acceleration to really make it tangle with the other big guns in the industry. Moreover, the leak on the handset provides a treasure trove of hardware specs it’ll be flaunting – like a 3.2” VGA touchscreen, 8GB of internal storage, 512MB RAM, NFC, GPS, 5-megapixel camera with flash, Bluetooth 2.1, 1300 mAh battery, magnetometer, and an accelerometer.

BlackBerry Torch 2 gets an early hands-on

We'd already heard that the BlackBerry Torch 2 would basically be a Torch with some significantly bumped specs, and that's now been all but confirmed by BGR, which managed to spend a bit of time with the device itself. As you can see, it's nearly identical to the original Torch in terms of appearance, but BGR says the device's 1.2GHz processor could "light a fire" when paired with BlackBerry OS 6.1, and that its 640 x 480 display "looks absolutely great." As with the Bold Touch it got its hands on yesterday, BGR says the Torch 2 will be making its official debut at BlackBerry World next month, with a launch on AT&T to follow in July.