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Although this post is intended for Blackberry users on how they can download torrents on their phones, the ways described here can work on computers as well or any phone for that matter with decent specs. The emphasis on Blackberry phones is that most people who own Blackberry phones subscribe to the BIS (Blackberry Internet Service) which means they have unlimited internet on their devices. However, it is wiser to check with your carrier / operator first but generally the rule of thumb is that internet traffic via the phone browser is free if you are subscribed to BIS. Normally the technology with torrents is you need a torrent client like Vuze or utorrent to download them. Things get a bit tricky if you are behind a proxy server for example if you are at work or college where you have unlimited internet but cant install torrents because of blocked firewalls or limited administrator privileges.

Now getting to the stuff that matters, first thing  that you need to do is go to www.torrific.com and create an account there. They only need your email address and password. There is a free account and there is a premium account but we’ll get to that later. After creating the account, you can go to your favourite torrent sites. In my case my favourites are www.thepiratebay.org and www.isohunt.com. When you find the torrent that you want you just copy the download link of the torrent and paste it in the search bar at the Torrific site and click ‘Get’. You will be shown the file extension of the type of file that you want to download and if its a zipped file you can also see the files inside the compressed file. Click on the button which says ‘Initiate bittorrent download’ and the torrent will be queued. After the torrent seeding is complete, the use will receive an email from Torrific saying the download is complete. The user will receive a link where the seeded file can be downloaded. In my case I use a Blackberry 9300 3G running OS6 and it performs admirably and even allows for multiple downloads. The browser in OS6 also has a basic download manager build in to resume broken downloads but in my case it was a case of hit and miss as it didn’t resume all broken downloads. I have heard that some previous versions of Blackberry OS have file size restrictions but im not sure of that.