There’ve been persistent rumours of a Blackberry slidephone coming to the market, and even a couple of spy shots, but today, we get to the device properly, in some beautifully clear photos… and it looks mint! You may remember seeing the name on these pages before, and that’s because TechnoLiz did a post about it not long ago.
In those spyshots, it looked fairly decent, but I’m happy to say that, in the new clear photos that I saw on EngadgetMobile, it looks oh so much nicer. Well, let’s be honest, it looks like a cross between the Storm series and Bold series, which is hardly surprising considering that the Blackberry Bold 9800 (that’s it, to the right) is a basically a Bold phone with a touchscreen.
Alas, it seems you don’t get the same quantum-powered clicky touchscreen that you get on the Blackberry Storm 2 (or the Storm 2: Judgment Day, following the correct and proper Terminator-themed naming system), but the pay-off (and it’s a big pay-off to a lot of users) is that you get a full, slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
Unfortunately, however, when it comes to specs, I have no clue what this beastie’s capable of. No idea how fast the processor is, no idea how big the camera is, and no idea how long the battery’ll last. Sorry about that. All we can say for definite is that it’ll run on Blackberry OS 6, and it’ll be really rather good at emails. ‘Cos it’s a Blackberry. Obviously.
Anyway, I’m a little bit excited, as I always had a soft spot for the Blackberry Storm 2… sorry, Storm 2: Judgment Day, so I really would rather like to get my grubby paws on one to have a fiddle about with.
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