As we discovered this morning, Optus will be the first local carrier to sell the BlackBerry Torch, offering it on a range of plans from $79. The most interesting of those plans incorporates an additional USB modem for 3G wireless access — essentially tethering without actually tethering.
The BlackBerry Torch only sold 150,000 units in its first three days? That’s not bad at all. The real disappointment here is how deeply Research In Motion bought into its own hype.
If you’re a new BlackBerry Torch owner who’s frustrated with fact that the Torch doesn’t have a low battery indicator, you can now download the free Plug It In app. The app lets you set an alert with a pop up, coloured LED and sound at a user-specified threshold. The app then monitors and displays the battery level for you until the phone is charged back up. [CrackBerry]
We saw the BlackBerry Torch 9800 unveiled overnight in the US, and RIM has announced for us locally that it will be coming soon across all the Aussie carriers – Optus, Telstra, Vodafone and 3.
It was a fun guessing game while it lasted, but those mysterious AT&T displays turned out to be housing the BlackBerry Torch after all. Phew! We can all finally stop losing sleep over a marketing obelisk. [Thanks Bryan!]
RIM has just made available a BlackBerry Torch 9800 simulator for developers looking to test their apps on the latest ‘Berry hardware (or anyone interested in tinkering with BlackBerry 6). [BlackBerry via CrackBerry]
