RIM's BlackBerry Torch Doesn't Match Up

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Can Research In Motion RIMM stay in touch with the small-business smartphone market? It's trying with the spankin' new BlackBerry Torch 9800. It's tres chic right now among the techno elite to bash Research In Motion and its BlackBerry devices. For all their power as data entry tools, enterprise-level security and no-nonsense business features, the BlackBerry line has smaller screens, not much touchiness in interactive terms and -- worst of all -- a pathetic group of apps. It's just not cutting it in a world of big, bright interactive wonder-devices such as the Apple AAPL iPhone 4, Sprint S HTC EVO and Verizon VZ Motorola MOT Droid X. So it is to much, how shall we say, anticipation that RIM recently rolled out its BlackBerry Torch 9800 ($199 from AT&T T with a two-year plan). I have been giving the unit the small-biz once-over to test the company's latest, greatest -- and potentially last -- hope in elbowing into the front line of the business smartphones. To read the rest, head over to TheStreet.com