BlackBerry 9800 Torch has high resolution Touch screen with on-screen keyboard portrait SureType, features a 3.2"HVGA, 360x480 capacitive touch screen display, 35 key full QWERTY keyboard with back-lighting. It is equipped with 512 MB flash memory / 512 MB SDRAM, 4 GB eMMC + 4 GB media card included, Expandable memory - support for micro SD card up to 32 GB. BlackBerry 9800 Torch has Smooth and crisp user interface updates.

BlackBerry 9800 Torch offers excellent 5 MP camera with amazing features like Continuous auto-focus, Image stabilization, Flash, 11 scene modes, 2X digital zoom VGA (640x480) video recording and Geo-tagging. BlackBerry 9800 Torch has long lasting Battery & Battery Life 1300 mAH removable/rechargeable lithium-ion cell, which provide Standby Time in GSM of up to 18 days, up to 14 days in UMTS and Talk Time in GSM is up to 5.5 hours, up to 5.8 hours in UMTS, Music Playback is up to 30 hours, Video Playback offers up to 6 hours. BlackBerry 9800 Torch has integrated hands-free speakerphone.

BlackBerry 9800 Torch is very focused on multimedia and social networks; the BlackBerry is capable of reading many formats of video files and can summarize in one page all the news on major social networks like Facebook, Twitter or MySpace. BlackBerry 9800 Torch has features like Optical track pad, Simultaneous voice and data, browser, social feeds, media player, organizer and tethered modem. It has extremely efficient and reliable messaging features includes Email and text messaging, BlackBerry Messenger, Instant Messaging. The connectivity features are Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth and 3G network supports. Operating Wireless Networks in BlackBerry 9800 Torch are Tri-band 3G UMTS networks: 2100/1900/850/800 MHz and Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900MHz.