One of the weakest points on any BlackBerry new or old is the browser. In today’s mobile content buffet, the quantity and quality of mobile data are both very important, hence the BlackBerry’s continuing decline as a hardcore consumer device. But after RIM purchased a third party browser developer called “Torch Mobile”, things took a quick turn for the better. So far, the latest BlackBerry videos we’ve seen that highlight unreleased hardware...

Make no mistake, RIM’s current BlackBerry browser sucks and sucks big time. It’s always sucked. Those who disagree obviously aren’t using the internet as it was meant to be used — flash, javascript, ajax, and so on. Flash is still a sticking point for many other mobile browsers in the market but the rest of that list is a rather common affair now. After acquiring Torch Mobile last year, rumors and speculation of a completely revamped BlackBerry...

I remember the day that I read about the rumors of a touchscreen BlackBerry. I was sitting in Chicago O’Hare Airport waiting for a flight to Houston. At that time, scouring the specs on BGR’s site left my jaw dropping and my heart racing. That was the pinnacle of my CrackBerry days. I have since moved on to many different platforms though my enthusiasm for the BlackBerry platform has never truly waned. All it will take is one breakthrough device (with...

While I currently use an iPhone (for the time being) and am setting my sights on Android as my next purchase, I still have a place in my heart for RIM and their beloved BlackBerry. Even though the OS looks and operates as if it were written in 2004, the sheer simplicity of any type of messaging on a BlackBerry is hard to knock or challenge. Since the iPhone and Android have ushered in browsers that are actually worth doing any type of mobile browsing on, BlackBerries have...

Windows Mobile users who are all to familiar with the joke that is Mobile IE have yet another option in the mobile browser world.  Torch Mobile announced at MWC that they have updated their browser, “Iris” to v1.1.0.  Besides getting some new numbers, the beta tag has been kicked to the curb.  For those of you unfamiliar with Iris, it is a web-kit based mobile browser that will display web pages just as if you were browsing on a desktop computer, however,...