I want the Blackberry Touch!!!!

GRRR

I want it NOW.... Come to Rogers Canada.... I am with Telus now and I hate their service (Telus won't work sometimes at UofC campus). Please come to Rogers ASAP!!!

Seeing all the info on the BT really makes me glad I have stuck with BB. Can't wait for this to come out hopefully in June!!

Can't wait to get my own! :)

looks like a really nice phone but cmon... it has a touch screen and they barely even using it lol... screen is still a bit small for a touch screen... cant wait tro get my torch.. and wanna see how the torch 2 gonna look like

All I have to say is THANK YOU T-MO for getting this BAD BOY!!!

Oh that looks sweeeet!... i wanna ditch my torch now quickly.

the camera focus is a huge disappointment! :(

Hot phone but.....

Don't like the 'Torch' LED and I notice they say it only has one speaker, and I remember the Bold 9000 had two. Come on RIM? plus a smaller battery... no front facing camera either... why do i feel like this isn't quite 'flagship' yet?

I swear I'm not trolling, but I'm not as sure as i was b4 about buying this. I'll wait and see it in person, and hope that I'm overreacting.

Cmon kevin. We want to see how the "touch" navigates! Not the trackpad. Use the touchscreen more next time. Looks solid from what I can see tho...

I'm seriously pissed my Storm 2 died a couple weeks ago and I had to renew my contract with a new BB...this phone looks awesome!

I have another upgrade in July so I hope this will be out by then. For my March upgrade I tried the Thunderbolt. Crashes way too much and texting is horrible. All I say now is I can't wait for my Blackberry to be released. So glad I am trying the Tbolt/Android cuz now I KNOW what device I'm happy with!

My question is whether the touchscreen can be disabled? I owned and loved the Bold 9000 so I am so excited about the Bold 9930/9900. However, I'm not interested in the touchscreen. Kevin, can you please resolve this question. Thank you.

Posting from my BlackBerry PlayBook.

Soooooo happy its the size of the old Bold 9000.....that was the best Blackberry for me. I never understood why RIM made the 9700 smaller and more or less the same size as ALL their other QWERTY devices.

FYI, engadget has posted a video of a senior app developer using BBM on his PlayBook while bridged to his BlackBerry. Great video.

Posting from my BlackBerry PlayBook

Wow, after this and the browser.... who needs the playbook anymore? lol, I'll keep it though

"awhhh why did I click the black eyed peas?!"- Funny moment.

Anyways, yeah it looked like Kevin tended to forget this thing has a touch screen! A common thing I'm sure once this thing gets into the hands of owners, and surely something that takes getting used to. The ease of navigation between the trackpad and touch screen when applicable will be amazing. Really want this thing in my possession asap. Hopefully I win it from Crackberry!

It looks great but how long does it take to boot??

I like what I see!

love the device, definitely going to get it, i just wish it had a front facing camera also.

Nice video Kevin, thanks. I'm on crackberry.com 24/7 to get the latest Blackberry news during your visit to Blackberry World. The Bold 9900 is a beauty, Blackberry @ its best. I Don't care about iPhone (though i absolutely love my MacBook and iMac), HTC, Samsung or whatever. Blackberry is the only phone i will go for. Next phone is the Blackberry 9900, no doubt about it! Keep up the good work guys, we are all proud of you. You allways answer the questions i have... and more.

Now your there in Orlando maybe you can ask a RIM representitive when the Bold 9900 and the Playbook come to Europe/Netherlands. Thanks!

Damn, I just bought my 9780 to replace my 9700 which shorted out after I dropped it in a sink full of water. Really wish I hadn't done that as the new phones look incredible. I love the touch screen and keyboard combination. The only thing I absolutely dumbfounded about is RIM's decision not to include a left convenience key! I use that all the time - I key it for my BBM while the right convenience key is for the camera. Without using the phone, I can already based on my existing behaviour that this is going to be my biggest disappointment with the models.

You guys forgot to take out the battery to see how thick it is, and I would also like to see the boot time.

I can't wait to get it

I hope the new 1230 battery can perform at least the same with the old 1500 one on the 9700/9780.......

Great, great, great!!! After the 9000 this is gonna be the best BlackBerry ever!!!!

2 weeks ago I bought a bold 9780 and I must say, that was no fault.

the 9930/9900 is nothing special.
- new style, like an iphone with keyboard?

for me is the touch screen useless. ;-)

That looks cool, but come on already with the Monoco. I've been waiting for a replacement for my storm for over a year now.

Quick question for Kevin,

Has there been any confirmation that VZW will be getting the first launch units of the 9930 Touch CDMA unit? Also, any indicator on the target release date or is still "late summer sometime"? I have to figure out a way to get out of my Android contract and NEED to come back to BlackBerry!

Thank you!!

I want it. Like NOW!

does anyone know when this will be on Sprint? and the LED is pretty disappointing. isn't the torch's the same/similar to the 9330's? i MAY consider switching to T-mo if this isn't released on Sprint.

Standby lighting - totally a nice touch?

Its not like that's new except the trackpad lighting up. My bold does the same thing!

Like I said before, I can only hope that I'll be ready for an upgrade when this bad boy hit shelves because it looks FANTASTIC & I'm not usually a touch screen fan. Blackberry 7 seems great, just the interaction alone is making me really like this, can't wait to actually play around with it myself.

Please bring the BB Touch to T-Mo with compatability on all bands for AT&T and T-Mo!

No doubt that this device is bad a$$. I just think the Torch form factor lends itself better to having the touchscreen. It seems redundant to have a touchscreen, trackpad, and keyboard all there to play with at the same time!

Anyone else wonder why the 9900 model showed AT&T and Rogers at the top of the screen, but the 9930 only shows RIMBBWorld?

One and a half years since the first leaks on this phone and they're STILL not going to give us release date and pricing?!?

My only question, well one of my questions is will this new Bold be world capable because my 9650 is and if the new one isn't that might be a deal breaker, plans on going around the world and i don't want to have to try and get a plan on a phone that won't support it or rent/lease a phone that i don't want, help me Kevin, let me know and also will the torch 2 support world travel?

i really want to see the 9900 playing some kind of game. Like need for speed maybe. I want to see what it will look like and how playing a game like that would be like on a device you normally hold with one hand..

is this coming to att? if not then can i buy a tmobile one and use my att sim card?

I like my Torch, but there are things I hate. The slider rattles. The sound quality is meh. The device feels like a brick. My ear puts my callers on MUTE sometimes which is downright embarrassing.

I loved the Bold 9000 but did not like the trackball, which stopped working, and also the slowness of the device. Web browsing was painful. The keyboard and the screen were a joy, however.

This looks like one worth trying. I've been looking at iPhones lately -- the white one is hot -- but the physical keyboard is one of my personal requirements on a smartphone. Also, I like the trackpad and menus! Simple stuff.

Will this support Java and have FULL internet capabilities ??

Man, I can't wait for this phone to come out. It looks very slim and the keyboard looks very impressive.

I think this may be a major turning point for RIM, this phone seems really really good even put up against my Droid 2 global which has the same CPU speed.

Although all of the specs, etc. are official, there is still one question, will it blend?

RIM officially announced that it wouldn't be until late August or September before the first of the Bolds are released, so yeah, that's up to 4 months from now. It's the Playbook announcement all over again!

I could stair at this sexy beast all day

Does the browser have flash? Left side convenience key missing is kinda sad, but its all right. The device is light... but does it have that quality feel of the Bold 9000, PlayBook?
Oh yeah, i've owned a Bold 9000, and the shotdown standby process is the same. Maybe its a signature of the BlackBerry Bold series.

Anyone else like the fact that it has charging contacts in addition to the micro USB port? A definate plus for me!

Forget thin and light. I want features, processor power, memory, better radios and antennas, and bigger batteries.

This new Bold looks really promising. The hardware really makes it zippy. BlackBerry users will consider it a significant upgrade from exisiting Bolds, but how will the rest of the mobile world see it? More here: http://wp.me/p1wchx-5h

Amazing phone. Cant say im disappointed yet because I havent heard it...but hope the sound goes as loud as my dual speaker 9000.

So, I am pretty stoked for this line of BBs... I'm just a little concerned that I haven't been hearing anything about application storage space.
So here it is...

Are we looking at application storage space in megabytes or in the big GBs?

Everything says 768 or some odd megabytes of RAM, and 8 GBs of "storage space," but traditionally what RIM calls RAM is what's used for app space. Which is BS. The two GBs of storage space on my Storm2 (which can't be used for apps) barely ever gets used, because it came with a 16GB microSD.

With every Blackberry I've had (and it's been a few now), I've been severely hampered, and have had to play a continuous balancing game to try and keep the most important ones installed. I have bought a good number of apps, but have decided not to buy a lot more based off of lack of space, which means RIM is missing out on money. There are so many improvements to these devices, it would be such a waste to overlook this spec.

It pains me to say it, but I might have to finally abandon RIM if this issue isn't fixed THIS generation... which says a lot considering how vocal of a supporter (and recently defender) I've been for BlackBerry. My wife will think something is wrong with me.

Anybody have some insight on this?

-Mike

"first it kills the lighting on the display, then the lighting on the keyboard, and then finally the lighting around the trackpad - totally a nice touch." ----

The Bold 9000 does that with its trackball...? So, that's no longer new. Since 2008 or whenever the Bold 9000 was released, at the very least.