BlackBerry Bold 9780 leaks out with OS 6, QWERTY instead of touchscreen
By Sean Hollister 
posted July 24th 2010 2:22PM
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Its nice to see blackberry is really changing things up with the design of their phones.
@blacksilva
i really don't think RIM has to change much to the hardware design of their phones. The design they have now works, and works good. And not all people want an all touchscreen phone. What they do need though is some serious software updates though.
@blacksilva This is like the iPhone 3Gs upgrade of the Bold series.
@Dustin
why does everyone want a radical new blackberry?
they arent gonna mess with a design that works.
@vstican why does everyone think blackberrys work the best? they are horible and cant do half the G1 can do. much less an evo, droid x, nexus one, vibrant, captivate, ext.
@Leindurstit
Too bad Blackberry's phones are a bag of hurt and don't compare to the latest offerings from... everyone else.
They all the same crap... Booooriing!
why are blackberries so ugly and unfunctional. why on earth would any sane person buy this over an iPhone or an Android?
@tracdoor
oh look! ENGADGET removed my comment I posted!!!
@tracdoor i own a BlackBerry Bold 9700. the way i see it anything without the 9700's keyboard is entirely nonfunctional.
btw "unfunctional" is not a word
@kojo87 Some people like the keyboard, some people don't.. Get over yourselves! The truth is that RIM should invest in design on top of a new OS.. This design has been around for a looong time, time to shake things up a little, not just a minor trim change..
@allenrotstein thats why i said "the way i see it"
Why fix something that isn't broken. The iPhone has had the exact same design as well and no one complains.
@kanuck Cause its 1 phone per year not 30.
Wow what a widdle widdle screen..
Mr. Glarey cam is almost as annoying as mr blurry cam.
Looks just like every other blackberry made in the last 20 years.
@ROFL
http://trendycellular.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/evo1blackberry850.jpg
@ROFL
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
@salane89
Ever considered maybe, they aren't supposed to? They may not appeal to yourself and I in the consumer market but still No.1 in USA and large market shares all over the business-world. Most business minded people need a no-nonsense phone that works, it's not for me, I like my apps and multimedia but.. I can understand their demographic.
OMG A BB With the wifies and a qwerty keyboard?
EXTREMELY REVOLUTIONARY.
NOT!!
Fucking die BB
@Almo Yet they don't have a lot of stuff business people like. The only people who buy these are people who think they do business best.
Could RIM try less? Seriously, I want someone from RIM to get on these comments and try and defend these phones. You can say whatever you want, aimed at corporate market, designed to reduce cost to enterprise, familiar for end users, it's all BS if it prevents you from making a reasonable increase in quality to your platform for 3 years. This is just awful.
@nickyP If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Meh....
@sakz exactly.
Blackberries have keyboards? O_O
@Leindurstit:
You're ignoring the true innovation here: "this device's chrome bezel is a tad darker than the original." It's a tad darker man!
RIM: pushing the envelope, changing the world.
Same boring OS, same boring design. Time 4 change BB.
Ok Engadget, seriously bother to do a damn bit of research or stop posting about blackberries. This is not a "shoe in" for the curve 3 by any stretch of the imagination considering for one, the screen is twice the res. It's essentially the same as the 9700 but with more ram to support OS6, just like the Storm3 and the Bold 9650 (although that had other improvements over the Tour). Making these stupid "all blackberries look the same" jokes is unprofessional.....guess what, ALL IPHONES LOOK THE GOD DAMN SAME
@KeegdnaB
EXACTLY! All the Apple fan boys are so delusional.
@KeegdnaB BB users are nuts , its the same garbage over and over , how pissed are currently BB users going to be when they don't get 6.0 only because they have to buy a whole new phone with more ram that looks the same as the old phone
At least iphone and android users haven't had to change phones to get updates
@Hydra So an iPhone 3G user doesn't need to upgrade to get multitasking and facetime? Is the Droid1 going to get Gingerbread officially?
RIM could have gimped OS6 to be able to work on existing devices but they didn't because people kept telling then "fix your OS" and guess what, they did. So some older devices get left behind, that's your argument for calling me nuts?
@KeegdnaB
Why would you have facetime on a phone without a front facing camera?
@KeegdnaB I'm guessing his reason for calling you nuts is because you ANGRILY defend a product line that needs a hardware refresh as badly is it needs a software refresh. Despite your best efforts to defend the actions of Rim and their stalling design team, they need more coffee over there. Have you ever tried to read a spreadsheet on a 9700's screen? Not saying every device has to be an iPhone, but if you say it's for business, make it at least document friendly, huh?
@WillieDuitt
they dont have to refresh anything
blackberry still sell crap loads hell even the president has one
dont fix what is not broken
@DefPoet
wow, I am glad you are not running a company. Let us wait till we have lost all our customers before we "react". BB has been trending downwards in the US and the reason is because there are better choices out there. This is not opinion, it is fact.
@Roger Moore That's more opinion than fact, as RIM has been over 40% market share in the US for the past couple of years now.
@weedalin
I take it you don't understand what the phrase "trending downwards" means.
@Roger Moore No, opinion. Your comment, as written, is ambiguous. People get phones for all sorts of reasons, and your reasons aren't the next guy's. It depends on what you want out of a phone. I want to have a physical keyboard on a phone that doesn't have Android (I personally don't like that OS at all) and I want to be able to easily communicate with my friends abroad that have BlackBerries, for free. Hence, I own a BlackBerry.
Blackberry is to QWERTY keyboard as iPhone is to Apple... Come on Engadget.
@dcoaster Blackberries are the flagship product of QWERTY keyboards?
@Almo I'd argue this is no longer a valid sentiment, when many competitors support exchange push and forms of encryption, plus have a host of other useful features ( better contact management, useful business apps, etc) the only thing keeping RIM going right now are BES and companies hating to retrain employees. I think HP/Palm are going to get into a heated battle with RIM for the corporate market in 2011. HP wants those customers. As bad as HP is at making software, they can't be worse than RIM is at innovating.
Oh my god, does it have wifi? Mindblowing!
I don't know which part of that image to facepalm at harder...the fact that someone charges $20 for an app to add watermarks, or the fact that the guy was not only too dumb to look for a free graphics program, but also happily left the additional "ATTENTION: CHEAP BASTARD" watermark on his image.
@Leindurstit : OMG, its so different then the last one! :|
@Leindurstit To be fair though a lot of business users I know would rather be using an iPhone, and a lot time I see them carrying both, only because they're forced to use a BlackBerry for work.
Just by looking at the Blackberries, is there really any way to differentiate between the different models?
@XChrisX
price
@XChrisX yes