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…T’s network, but much more slowly over Wi-Fi.
This may come as a shock to some users, but you can expect your favorite apps to not work with the Torch out of the box. RIM’s new OS doesn’t seem to permit much in the way of backwards compatibility, so we found ourselves high and dry for a few must-have applications (in particular, the entire suite of Google apps and their web counterparts don’t recognize the browser properly, either). We had quite a few issues with apps not working (or not working properly) on the new platform, and even though RIM has improved the App World experience, there’s no differentiation in the store to tell you if what you’re about to buy will function with the device. This may just be a review-period-only situation, but it was frustrating to be unable to run a lot of software we actually wanted to use on the phone.
Beyond that, the apps we did run seemed fine, but we do have to once again take issue with the performance of this phone as it relates to the rest of the smartphone…
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