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Ok everyone, I made a post around two months ago titled “New Touchscreen Blackberry Thunder To Arrive As A Verizon Wireless Exclusive” Well, as I promised in that post I would keep you all updated on this new style of blackberry. I Found it on, where else but on Crackberry.com 

“The first pics and screenshots we have seen of the BlackBerry Thunder have been awesome, but it’s nice to finally have live hands-on photo evidence that the BlackBerry Thunder is REAL and it’s working (of course, only time will tell for sure just how well!). More details and another photo of the BlackBerry Thunder’s touchscreen after the jump!

Here’s a quick recap of the details we brought you last week on the Thunder’s touchscreen display:

• Tactile Response - when you press on the Thunder’s screen, it pushes in “just” a little bit (the whole screen is sort of like a big button) and you get immediate “real” feedback - you hear an audible clickety sound, and can feel a buzz in your finger where you actually pressed on the display.
• Full QWERTY and SureType entry - hold the phone in landscape mode and you can take advantage of a full-qwerty keypad. Use the phone in portrait mode and you can enter data on a SureType keyboard. You will be able to choose/change your screen/keyboard orientation at anytime. 
• Screen is made of glass and will feature multi-touch - the Thunder is said to be utilizing WebKit for it’s browser engine (same as the iPhone), so hopefully that means a solid web browsing experience for the Thunder.

I’m not sure whether these exact keyboard skins will make the Thunder’s final release version of OS 4.7, but from the images you can tell the user-experience RIM is going after here… they want typing on the Thunder to be EASY. That means a lot of screen real estate dedicated to the keyboard, which makes room for big keys that are easy to locate and tap. RIM is famous for the ‘BlackBerry Prayer’ position users assume when typing messages on their devices and it looks like that won’t change with the introduction of the touchscreen Thunder… you should be able to grip the device with both hands and pound out emails with both thumbs blazing.

The images also provide further confirmation that the Thunder’s operating system will still rely heavily on the BlackBerry menu button for key functions and advanced options vs putting all options on the main screen as the iPhone does. I’d assume hitting the menu key while on the Compose Message screens shown in these images should provide the standard BlackBerry menu options such as Send, Copy/Paste, Save Draft, Check Spelling, Attach file, etc.

After using an iPhone 3G for a couple of days, I’ll say this: while it’s pretty, it’s not very efficient at getting stuff done (ahem) lighting-quick. A touchscreen BlackBerry like this may just one-up the iPhone in that department because it’s based on the speedy and efficient BlackBerry OS while also getting the benefits of a gigantic touchscreen for browsing, reading and viewing media.

What do you think, does RIM have another winner on their hands?”

Well here you go! Straight from The crackberry site!! Whats your thoughts? Let us know!

“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. 

There are many different smartphones on the market these days, some of the major ones would be the Treo, Blackberry, and the iPhone.

Below are the Blackberry 8800 and the Treo 700p:

The Blackberry and Treo have always been the tried and true business phones for Corporate America. Which of these two you would choose would all depend on your taste. I have owned both a Treo and a Blackberry and must say I would personally choose the Blackberry out of the two based on usability. I enjoyed the touch screen on the Treo and if you choose the one that is Palm based there are a ton of aftermarket apps that you can download to the phone, but the features and usability of the Blackberry far exceeded my love of the touchscreen and add-on apps.

Enter the iPhone:

The iPhone entered the market by storm and has a massive fan base. The phone was not initially received by the Corporate world as a possible replacement to the Blackberry or Treo, but those seas may change with features that are being added to the iPhone that can make it a viable competitor to the Blackberry and Treo. More information on this is available at the Gartner website.

I must say after handling an iPhone I am very impressed. The only thing keeping me from running out and buying one is the keyboard and the rumors of a new 3G model becoming available soon.

These are just a few of the smartphones on the market today…there are many, many other smartphones out there.

My question to you is which one do you use and why?