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The BlackBerry Torch 9860 can record videos at 720p (1280 x 720), 640 x 480 or 176 x 144. It records in 3GP format.
The video is 30 frames per second, with a fairly high bitrate of 14Mbps, which combine to mean that motion is very well captured in the two outdoors clips. There's little motion blur, and almost no artefacting.
There's a decent amount of detail in these outdoors shots, but the skateboarding clip shows that there can be issues with the autofocus wandering around – having focused on the skateboarder, it then switched to one of the skaters in the foreground as they went past, before settling back on the first skater.
The low light shot is an order of magnitude poorer, however. The LED flash can't be turned on to use with the video camera, so anything slightly low light indoors will incur the huge amount of digital noise visible in the third video. It totally destroys any detail there might have been.
You can upload to YouTube straight from the video recorder if you want, or send the file over Bluetooth.
