Just in case you'd been getting tired of
iPhone rumors,
Zune 2 leaks, and more
Centro "in the wild" shots than you can really stomach, we've got something to alleviate the pressure. Enter the Photoshopped yet appropriately-blurry, rumored next phase of the Research In Motion takeover... the BlackBerry 9xxx. Okay, adjust your eyeballs and listen up -- according to the Boy Genius Report, the new device is slated to launch sometime in early 2008, and will be delivering mouth-watering goods like HSDPA-ified 3G, a 600Mhz processor, and an integrated backup / restore function which should help keep the suits from sweating themselves out of their expensive leather office chairs. Of course, this is all deeply,
deeply unconfirmed at the moment, though the Boy Genius says he has a source. We suggest taking it with a grain of salt -- but feel free to dream.
posted Oct 3rd 2007 10:48PM
Damn, that is a horrible excuse for a photoshop.....
How do you like them apples?!
with, apparently, a grain of salt.
Grain of salt? How about a boulder?
This thing looks like such a bad photochop, it's not funny. And the specs -- 600MHz proc, simultaneous voice & data, in one of their mobile phones? In *anyone's* phone would be big enough news. Is RIM truly, madly, deeply trying to get full fledged PDA functionality into one of their devices?
And Blackberries are known for their hard key thumb boards, why would they all of a sudden take the full frontal touchscreen route when they've never ventured into it before? When they've never even had a touch interface at all, everything has been physical, tactile, thumbwheels, buttons and teeny-tiny trackballs?
A Blackberry without tactile buttons makes as much sense as Steve Ballmer choosing an 80gb iPod classic over the Zune 80.... maybe it's a slider?
The Zune 2 tag is linked to Engadget Mobile. I didn't know it was a phone too.....
mobile means to move, meaning not just phones, me thinks
A blackberry with no real buttons? That's impossible
More like... INCONCEIVABLE!!! =D
time to buy some more RIMM!!!!
If they want to make a touchscreen blackberry they can take some tips from LG's Voyager. Touchscreen and qwerty make for awesomeness.
I have a Cingular Blackberry that I get with my technology teacher job ( I don't pay a dime for nights, weekends, or minutes).
I perfer the Blackberry to be hard and have buttons so that typing feels like typing.
The Iphone is nowhere near the text-messaging, emailing capabilities of the Blackberry.
The only true contender for the iPhone crown. It's feature list will be as long as an NBA player's arm length. (WiFi, 3G, WiMAX, GPS, A2DP Bluetooth, VoIP, playback of WMV, H.264, MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, Flash videos, 16 GB memory slot, voice control, touch control, mind control) It will run 100 third-party applications at once. It will function on every network in the world. Not only will it sync wirelessly, it will also charge wirelessly. It will have everything that everybody wants in a handset. All for the outright price of about $350 but free with a two-year contract.
It will only lack the two most important features in a revolutionary handset. The Apple logo and Steve's blessing.
what?
Wow man, pass the pipe! That must be some good stuff.
I didn't even know the Iphone had a crown. What did they did to deserve such a thing?
hypnotize millions it seems.
no one has mentioned it yet but...if you look closely at the photo displayed on the regular engadget page,where white meets black on the screen, the t-mobile branding can just be made out. look for it...guess no real high speed on this baby
nvm it disapeared? lol
BlackBerry with a touchscreen? Whaaaaaaaa?
I hope they can maintain the amazing battery life the Curve has. My fear is that with all these new features, the battery will not last long...that would seriously deter me from buying one.
I've never seen THAT iPhone before! :-0
/sarcasm
No, an iPhone looks more like a brick, and also it's less useful.
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2007/10/03/blackberry-9000-whispers-in-our-ear/
"On Oct 3, 2007 @ 11:53 am, The Boy Genius Said:
No, this is not a real picture of the BlackBerry 9xxx series…Although, we have heard RIM might be working on a touch-screen device…"
I was about to post this. Everyone -- take a look at above comment. This picture is NOT EVEN CLOSE to the 9xxx.
PALM where the heck are you?????
So far the only company that has come out with anything that can really be an iPhone-killer is Craftsman with their new ten pound sledgehammer.
U might want to check out Nokia's and HTC's websites sometime for starters…
But you're right, with no clear native 3rd party app support in the foreseeable future, a sledgehammer is just as useful as an iPone AS A SMARTPHONE.
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6742/blackberrylb7.jpg
I like my photoshop better. ;)
even michael j fox has a better handle on the paint brush than you do.
an iPhone and a productivity device? (i cummed)
Hard to beleive the news - it would be a complete about face for blackberry. Not half a year ago, their CEO was saying how much the iPhone sucks because of poor battery life, and how blackberry gave up on the idea of a touch keyboard as impractical...