Unfortunately the release of the BlackBerry Torch 9860 has now been delayed. There’s been a bit of toing and froing with the release date for this one – originally it was due on the 26th September, it was then brought forward to the 19th and has now been moved back to the 3rd October. We had a demo unit in last week to have a quick play with and we’ve been looking forward to having stock in this week to use the Monza properly and to ship out to those of you with orders outstanding. Guess we’ll all just have to wait a bit longer.

Here we have a hands on tour of the BlackBerry 9860. Take a look in the following video.

BlackBerry have today announced two new smartphones that run the new BB OS 7.

OS 7 is faster, sleeker and offers a better experience all round but particularly when it comes to graphics, multimedia and gaming.

The browser has been improved to load pages faster, make browsing smoother and have more support for different pages.

Voice activated search enables handfree use of the device, which is ideal if you need to call someone or email them when on the move.

So that’s the OS in a nutshell but what are the 9810 and the 9860?

The 9810 is an upgrade to the current 9800.  It retains most of it’s hardware features such as touchscreen and slide out QWERTY keyboard. It also retains a lot of the other features but ultimately benefits from OS 7.

The 9860 on the other hand looks like a BlackBerry Storm replacement. With a 3.7” touchscreen display, no physical keyboard, 5 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi etc.

We will bring you more news as and when we have it.

The hype is starting to build ahead of the BlackBerry World event next month and now to add to the excitement this video of the BlackBerry Touch 9860 has emerged. Although it is somewhat blurry and narrated in Thai, the clip gives a fairly good demo of the handset in action.