Cala Machino Gadget Info

The new flagship BlackBerry is made by one of the most important ceremonies of acceptance in the smartphone world: a tear down. The crews have dismantled a Crack Berry flashlight to see what makes the number of fires and glamorous pictures of naked hardware manufactured for us to gawp in the process. As you can see by the explosion shot of the phone above most internals are integrated or soldered down, but this is undressing gives us the opportunity to take a look at the biggest novelty in this new BlackBerry, which is the slider mechanism. It is impressively thin, rated for 150,000 + cycles, and yours witness on video, just after the break.

We do have a lot of our local stores and have struck, but for what it’s worth, we have sent a shot of the box the BlackBerry Torch is apparently cooling in the warehouse of one of the AT & T many corporate owned retail locations across the country. Although the official opening is August 12, we suggest that you might be able to a rep to give you a slip soon as you receive a shipment and then find ‘em hard enough to find. No violence or torture techniques, but, okay?

When we started our review of the BlackBerry Torch (aka the Bold 9800), our hearts were all aflutter. The leaked pictures we were seeing a kind of Palm RIM Pre-esque slider were different and, frankly, weird enough to be a kind of low hum gadget lust cause. Moreover, although no one on the Engadget team was blown away by what the company had shown us in recent BlackBerry OS 6 demo videos, the promise of a significantly revamped user interface and new, WebKit-powered browser certainly has us interested.

Even as Research in Motion was slipping on her once-unassailable smartphone game, there was a feeling in the team that the possibility for a return to innovative, industry-driving design was opened to the Canadian company. So if our own Torch to play, we were understandably excited. A new OS, a new form-factor (completely new to RIM), and from what we could tell, a new outlook of the company which wanted to target this product: namely, the average consumer.

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