While the BlackBerry 'Slide' as CEO John Chen likes to call it has thus far managed to escape being captured in any great way by thousands of dollars worth of fancy cameras, one thing it can't escape is Photoshop. Dylan Habkirk has created some pretty great renders of BlackBerry smartphones in the past and he's given the Slider a go with a new set of renders where the device gets dubbed the Glide on BlackBerryCentral. Even though they are just renders based on some incredibly blurry cam like images and not the real deal, they look pretty damn accurate and really help one envision the device. What do you all think? Pretty spot on, right?
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