While yes, the BlackBerry Bold is a pretty slick looking update to the hallowed BlackBerry line, it still sports a physical keyboard — clearly a quaint remnant of smartphones from a bygone era. What the people want these days are touchscreens, beautiful, difficult to use touchscreens. And that’s just what RIM is going to deliver with the BlackBerry Thunder.
https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-bold-aka-9000-officially-official-389384
The Boy Genius has a bunch of new details on the upcoming touchscreen BlackBerry, including the interesting tidbit that it’ll be a lifetime exclusive on Verizon in the US and Vodafone in Europe. It’ll have a mere four physical keys and will run on 3G EV-DO Rev. C as well as GSM HSPA for international use. No word on when this thing is going to drop, or whether or not anyone who uses a Blackberry will allow a physical QWERTY keyboard to be pried from their grip, but we’ll keep you updated.
Oh, and that image above is merely a mock-up of what a touchscreen BlackBerry might look like, not an actual product rendering.
“Excuse me, do these effectively hide my thunder?” [Boy Genius]
