BlackBerry Aries spotted: a Gemini with CDMA in its heart

If you had your eye the BlackBerry Curve 8520 / Gemini, somehow above all the other number of RIM devices that have surfaced as of late, it looks like the stars have aligned (har har) for you. The gang at Crackberry have gotten a first peep at the Aries, which they say is essentially a CDMA-equipped Gemini that's likely to go by the eventual name Curve 8530. Not much else to note here, here's hoping we got some more concrete details -- and maybe a committed carrier or two -- in the not too distant. As for the naming conventions, we now anxiously await for alliterative darlings like a touchscreen Taurus, slide-out Sagittarius, and 18 megapixel Pisces.

[(Unverified) Posted May 24th 2009 1:45PM]

I just want a 3G 8900 - is that so hard RIM?

[(Unverified) Posted May 24th 2009 1:51PM]

Relax, it's coming.

[Anticrawl Posted May 24th 2009 2:32PM]

I just want a Blackberry that doesn't freeze constantly - is that so hard RIM?

[ajeezy Posted May 24th 2009 2:29PM]

I can't really tell but it doesn't look like there's a trackball on this...

[(Unverified) Posted May 24th 2009 2:35PM]

It doesn't. It has a trackpad--essentially a super-sensitive sub-square-centimeter version of the one on your laptop.

Does the same thing as the ball without requiring something to actually spin. I don't use Blackberrys myself, but I hear those trackballs get disgustingly dirty after a while, and some apparently lose their sensitivity (no doubt as a result). No more.

[ajeezy Posted May 24th 2009 2:41PM]

Oh ok. I wouldn't know about the dirty trackball either, my sister has a BB Curve but she's only had it since Christmas so it hasn't gotten THAT much use yet. Hmm that might be interesting, I personally can't stand using the trackpad on my laptop for extended periods of time since I rediscovered the mouse but on a phone it might not be so bad

[EpsilonNot Posted May 24th 2009 5:52PM]

Speaking of input methods, am I the only one who wouldn't mind a return of the trackwheel?

[(Unverified) Posted May 24th 2009 4:14PM]

this will be heading for metroPCS in Q3 or Q4

[EpsilonNot Posted May 24th 2009 5:32PM]

Not surprising- hm, will it have AWS? (It was MetroPCS that was deploying CDMA on AWS spectrum, right?)