RIM's new BlackBerry 7100t (aka the "Charm") due out tomorrow? Probably not.

By Peter Rojas

Uh, we're finding this more than a little hard to believe, but someone claiming to have gotten a sneak peek at T-Mobile PowerPoint presentation says that Research In Motion's new
BlackBerry 7100t, aka the "Charm", is going to be announced tomorrow (it seems a little early, but that's not to say we don't think it's coming out soon). The 7100t/Charm/whatever they end up calling it is RIM's attempt at a slimmer, more cellphone-like BlackBerry communicator.
The catch? They ditch the QWERTY keyboard and replace it with a narrow one that puts two letters on each key and uses predictive text to guess which one you mean (we've posted some hands-on reports about the new keyboard
here and
here).

[Thanks, Wayne]

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