I went around the various gadget vendors in Greenhills this afternoon and I was surprised to see that there were a lot of BlackBerry Torch 9800 being sold (red, white, and black colors). There were several stalls in theater mall that offer it at just P27,000. The lowest that I found was P25,500 but when I came back and asked again the price went up to P26,500 and they “forgot” about the first price they offered, lol. Anyway, photo:
I’ve been trying to find Globe’s official pricing on the BlackBerry Torch 9800 for their postpaid plans online. I found a promo page as well as the actual unit listed in the postpaid phone selection menu. The BlackBerry Torch 9800 comes “free” with the P3799 plan. You can opt to get Unlimited Surfing as your freebie if you go for the My Fully Loaded Plan. Screenshots below:
So there you go. Official prices. 
Go to the nearest Globe store and get a Torch! No word yet on Smart and Sun.
The BlackBerry Torch 9800 still isn’t available here in the Philippines but I heard that some of the telcos will start selling it starting December. As most of you guys know I got my hands on a review unit and I’ve been heavily using the Torch as my primary phone over the long weekend. Allow me to share my findings and my complete review of the unit in this entry.
One of the cool features of the BlackBerry Torch 9800 is the Social/RSS Feeds application. It’s a unified alerts system for messengers (MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, etc) and your social networking accounts (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc). This makes life a whole lot easier since you don’t have to log-in every account all the time just to check if there’s a new update. Here’s a short 1-minute demo video that I made.
BLACKBERRY TORCH 9800 SOCIAL FEEDS
I hope that the Social Fields feature will be available for all phones that have the BlackBerry 6 OS.
I currently have a review unit Research In Motion’s flagship handset, the BlackBerry Torch 9800. This was locally officially launched via a media briefing a few weeks ago but there’s no news yet on when the local carriers will actually offer them. There’s also no news yet on the prices. I’ll be writing a couple of articles about my experience with the BlackBerry Torch but for now here are some of the unboxing photos.
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