QWERTY / Touch Screen

Check out the new BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 commercial… Harmony

August 29, 2011 by Robb Dunewood Leave a Comment

I have to admit that I’ve been a fan of touch screen smartphones going all the way back to Windows Mobile devices that you had to use a stylus on. I am also on the record for saying that the the keyboard on the original BlackBerry Bold 9000 is the best physical keyboard any smartphone has ever seen. The BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 joins the best of both worlds adding a touch screen that stands on its own against the iPhone or any Android device and reintroducing the best physical QWERTY keyboard of all time.

The title of this commercial is “Harmony”, and, that is exactly what RIM has achieved on the new BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930.

Leaked: Is This The First Picture Of The BlackBerry Dakota, The First QWERTY/Touch BlackBerry?

January 13, 2011 by Robb Dunewood 5 Comments

BGR got there hands on what appears to be the first ever photo of the BlackBerry Dakota, RIM’s new BlackBerry Bold style QWERTY keyboard device with a touchscreen.

BlackBerry Dakota features:

Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
Tri-band UMTS
5 megapixel camera with HD video recording, flash, and image stabilization
4GB of built in storage, 768MB of RAM
2.8-inch VGA 640×480 capacitive screen
WiFi b,g,n on 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies
3G mobile hotspot!
MicroUSB port
Bluetooth
NFC
Magnetometer
Accelerometer
Proximity sensor
10.5mm thin
Launches with BlackBerry OS 6.1

For those BlackBerry users that just want a better BlackBerry, the Dakota will probably be a big hit…