New smartphones offer consumers more choice

The new BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 are the company's thinnest smartphones, offering a large keyboard and brilliant touch display. The new BlackBerry Torch 9810 smartphone builds on the popularity of the previous release and combines a large touch display with a convenient slide-out keyboard. The BlackBerry Torch 9850 and 9860 introduce a new all-touch design featuring the largest display on the company's smartphone to date.

Sony Ericsson South Africa has announced the availability of the new Xperia arc and Xperia neo, both of which include high technology and multimedia experience on the latest version of the Android platform. They also include Google Maps Navigation (Beta), a free, full-featured GPS system that is now available for Android users in South Africa as part of the Google Maps app for Android.

For more information, go to www.blackberry.com and http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/products.