Other than the Torch 9850 and 9860, RIM has another new Torch, the BlackBerry 9810 with a slider form factor. As the follow-up to the 9800, the new model looks just the same but packs upgraded hardware. The 9810 runs the next gen BlackBerry 7 OS on a 1.2GHZ processor and 768MB of RAM. Other than the slide-out QWERTY keyboard, the phone also offers on-screen keyboard. It has a 3.2-inch 640×480 touchscreen, and a trackpad below the screen.

Verizon launches a new feature phone, the Pantech Jest slider with QWERTY keyboard for quick messaging. The Jest features a 2.6-inch LCD display, an optical directional key with swipe motion technology, …

T-Mobile made the myTouch 3G Slide Android smartphone official. The QWERTY side-slider features a 3.4-inch HVGA touchscreen, a 5 Megapixel camera with auto focus and flash and full QWERTY keyboard.

If Dell’s Android devices are not your cup of tea, take a look at this Dell Lightning smartphone running Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone 7 OS. The Lightning is a vertical slider with full QWERTY keyboard and a large 4.1-inch OLED touchscreen.

Verizon Wireless and Samsung release the Reality U820 messaging phone with  horizontal slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a 3-inch 240×400 touchscreen display. The Reality has …

Microsoft officially announced its KIN series Windows Phone designed with social networking in mind. The KIN is produced by Sharp and will be available through Verizon Wireless and Vodafone.

Sprint LG Lotus Elite LX610

Sprint offers the LG Lotus Elite and Rumor Touch mobile phones, which are the successor to the LG Lotus and LG Rumor. Both messaging devices are stylish, fashionable and sleek and offer easy access to social networking sites.

AT&T Pantech Link

In addition to Samsung’s duo, AT&T brings also Pantech’s Link and Pursuit. The former is a slim messaging …

AT&T Samsung Strive

AT&T adds to its portfolio two new phones from Samsung, the Strive and the Sunburst. The former is a vertical slide QWERTY phone with a color display, a 2 Megapixel camera. It comes in two color combinations, black/silver and purple/charcoal.

Alcatel showed at the MWC 2010 the new OT-980 sliding QWERTY phone that looks like Palm’s Pre. Instead of webOS, the OT-980 runs the Android 1.6 OS. Boosted by 600MHz processor, the new phone gets 192MB of RAM.