New Touchscreen Blackberry Thunder To Arrive As A Verizon Wireless Exclusive

 



 

"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.

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 mockup of what a touchscreen Blackberry might look like, not an actual product rendering."

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What are your thoughts on this new blackberry? I think this is huge for Blackberry being Treo was the main touchscreen smartphone on the market, now with blackberry hitting on this portion of technology, what is Treo gonna do next? Will this small feature pull a few treo customers away to blackberry? We shall see. 

 

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[vizxvt]

ok so here is an update for everyone on this...
"The Wall Street Journal confirms all of the details unearthed a few days ago about BlackBerry's touchscreen Apple killah: Dubbed Thunder, it's only got four physical keys and it'll be exclusive to Verizon Wireless in the US and Vodafone abroad. They also toss in a launch date—Q3 of this year, meaning September at the latest, practically right on the heels of the BlackBerry Bold. Looks like RIM is seriously stepping up its game—whether or not it's 'cause of the iPhone, we like it. " I cant wait!