Toronto: Research In Motion on Wednesday took the wraps off two more powerful versions of its touchscreen BlackBerry Torch, aiming to buy time until it can introduce a radically new software package in its smartphones.

The new phones, along with a Bold upgrade unveiled earlier, are part of what the Canadian company called its biggest global launch ever as it seeks to claw back North American market share losses from Apple’s iconic iPhone and a slew of devices running on Google's Android software.

The three touchscreen phones, running on the new BlackBerry OS 7, each boast an improved screen display and pack a 1.2 GHz processor from Qualcomm, the most powerful ever for a BlackBerry phone. All three devices will launch with carriers globally by the end of August, RIM said.

This is a necessary product refresh in advance of the big bang that we hope and expect will happen with QNX-based phones,” said CCS Insight vice-president of research John Jackson.

RIM shipped 13.2 million phones in the three months to late May, its first fall in shipments versus the prior quarter since at least mid-2007, as it pushed this launch back to August. RIM’s newly-promoted global head of sales Patrick Spence said BlackBerry heritage was as a leading communications tool and “what we’re talking about now with BlackBerry 7 is really enhancing that experience.”

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/rim-takes-wraps-off-2-new-blackberry-torch-phones/826756/2

they plan on slugging it with IPhone, when Iphone plans on dropping a dualcore phone this year, SMH
blackberry is "1 Full year" behind Android & IPhone.