BlackBerry Bold 9800 Slider
BlackBerry Bold 9800 Slider
BlackBerry Bold 9800 Slider, the previous show of the BlackBerry Bold 9800 slider, but this new series of images blows those all out of water. The Berry Fix has a plethora of pics for your perusal, chief among them a showing of the virtual keyboard to complement the physical QWERTY. We gotta say, every announce of good design sense lost on the 9670 must have been spent on this guy; we’re really intrigued by this one. If that wasn’t enough, we’ve got two more details that’ll tickle your fancy: an AT&T splash screen for one, and claims from the article’s author (via Twitter) that RIM’s not using SurePress here.These are probably the sharpest pictures of the BlackBerry 9800 we’ve seen to date, and the most we have seen of OS 6.0 in action. There are plenty of manufacturers that include a touchscreen, physical keypad, and directional input on their phones, but this is the first time we’re seeing all three together on a BlackBerry. From my experience, text selection was a hassle on both generations of the Storm, but the optical trackpad on the BlackBerry Bold 9800 should keep things precise. The clincher for a lot of potential buyers will be if this slider has SurePress; RIM’s making improvements to its clicking touchscreen, sure, but the concept is still foreign to a lot of people and makes for a hard sell. There is the distinct possibility that the 9800 has a standard capacitive touchscreen, which could make a lot of customers happy on the one hand, but could signal that RIM’s not willing to push SurePress as hard as they used to. Maybe it’s a technology they’ll reserve solely for the Storm family, but we’ll have to wait and see.
source : Into Mobile , engadget
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