finally. could this be the epic phone. the phone to kill all phones? i guess we can only stay tuned.

Looks awesome

Nice pic there Kevin..... :D

mmmmm

i'll probably never get one of these. but my father is looking to make the switch to a Smart Phone... maybe I'll have him wait it out for this one!

Congratz, I think you just redefined SWEET!

--Maven

Wow Crackberry is on the ball this morning!!!

Looks good but I love my trackball too much to give it up for a touch screen =[

No trackball? Bad move.

Having both would be fantastic. After using the Storm since it came out I can safely say the device would be 100x better with a trackball.

Now that is something worth getting excited over. Full Keyboard and touchscreen? Best of both worlds!!

This is awesome! I just may retire my storm early... :)

I just don't want to think about it... got the Bold.. don't want to think about spending for another one.. damn RIM... relax your production... lol Proud to be Canadian :)

It looks like a Storm with a keyboard... I like too bad it is GSM :(

To me, the entire advantage of the Storm vs conventional blackberries is the ability to have the virtual keyboard hidden to free up all that gorgeous screen real estate. That won't happen here, and as far as I can tell, there is no other advantage ON THE BLACKBERRY OS to having the touchscreen vs the traditional trackball interface.

Without hardware 5-way controls you will be disappointed... touchscreen are a fad - not a functional one either. I'd take a non-touchscreen Windows Mobile phone over a touchscreen any day. It could possibly work with a trackball, and coding the software to be hardware keys/navigation based - with click features and using the touchscreen mainly for quick access to icons and selecting text.

I'll be sticking to the 2nd generation 8900 with HSDPA radio - am happy with my standard non-touch 8900 Berry.

Mother of God! Research In Motion are looking for world dominiation, lol. That's S-W-E-E-T !! It's great to see that RIM aren't resting at all. Keep 'em coming!

SWEET!!! i love the swipe to scroll on the storm but CANNOT stand the virtual key board, yet i wonder if would still be a pain to selct/copy paste as the storm???

Now this is sweet!!

I don't understand what they are trying to do here....

Keyboard, but no trackball...

Touchscreen with a tiny screen?

This device makes no sense and seems rather unpractical.

I hope tis is the size of the Bold and not the 8900.

Another leak today? Nice

Whats with the no trackball? That makes absolutely no sense!

But it did get me excited. And I want to see more of whats on page 99...

Using this device is actually sweet. It's much faster because there is no scrolling. You just touch the icon you want. Then type. Makes for very fast navigating. Very good overall experience.

ibcompletePOSliketheStorm

I hope they have fixed the Surepress when the 9900 comes out. I want this and the 9630! :)

This device looks sick!!! I wish they would have both the trackball and the touchscreen because when using the device one-handed, I think the trackball comes in handy. All in all, this is another step in the right direction.

i am at a loss for words

Touchscreen is an inferior interface whose primary advantage is to allow for a large screen. This seems like the worst of both worlds.

I dunno

the trackball is right where my thumb is
having to move my thumb UP to the screen and back down the keyboard may prove annoying

I have the bold, but can't wait to get my hands on this one too!

Very NICE!! Touch Screen & Keyboard!! ME WANT!!

WOW!! I didn't expect to see any pics of the 9900 until Q3!
Well, this changes my phone purchase plans for this year.
Wow, I am speechless and this hardly ever happens! LOL
Phone looks damn hot! Way to go RIM! I'm excited lots!

Well maybe this is RIM's way of putting this out there to gather consumer feedback. So if we all yell loud enough to have a trackball put in, they'll change it!!! Ya think!!

PUT IN A TRACKBALL PLEASE!!! There I did my share. ;D

WOOOOOWWWWWWWW now thats how you start a crackberry weekend!!!

people people - just because YOU may not like touchscreens, or YOU may want a trackball, don't take so much offense to what RIM is designing here. They're basically just trying to offer all sorts of options to capture MORE of the market.

Take my wife for example - she has a device (non-RIM, for now) that has both a full qwerty keyboard AND a touchscreen, and she tells me there's no way she'd use a device that did not have BOTH of those features. She likes the kb for data entry, and she likes the touchscreen for quick screen navigation. And she is a total non-techie.

I think RIM has heard over time that there is a portion of the market that wants both qwerty AND touchscreen - and as strange as that may seem to some of you/us here in this forum, those people exist out there. It may not be you, and it may not be the traditional BB user, but just relax a bit. RIM is seeking to EXPAND their market, and this device is just one more example of that. The Flip is another, and there are likely many more to come. Heck you may even see a slider or something like that (shudder). Who knows?

Just know that RIM isn't trying to offend you guys - relax and take a breath.

I think this device will either be a love it or hate it one for some people. Or it could be the best of two worlds. Full QWERTY Bold keyboard and Storm touchscreen (maybe storm like). And with the no trackball, I don't know why people make a big deal about it. The Storm doesn't have one either.

I think we should see what's going on page 99 "for more information please refer to page 99" :) Specs?

Around and around and around they go again. Wherever it stops a new/same phone pops out, lets call it a....BOLD! Yeah, thats the ticket.

I think it would be more practicale to have a touchscreen instead of surepress. I mean the whole reason the surepress came out was so you think your clicking a button. But with this phone having a physical keyboard I think a touch screen like the iphone that does not click is more practical. Why put a trackball? You then just have a bold with a touchscreen that you would never use. A trackball on a touchscreen phone is pointless. Thats just my 2 cents. I'm happy with my Storm.

I used to have an iphone with at&t....touchscreens are not as good as trackball. The screens have to be cleaned constantly and with a small screen like blackberrys hitting little icons with a big finger is a real pain.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is what i have been waiting for. a touchscreen and a blackberry qwerty keyboard yay!!!!!!!!!!!! i wanted the bold but forget that ill wait on this :)

I remember last year keven posted a patent for blackberry touch wih a landscape slide out keyboard.... has anyone heard of when or if it is coming out??
Please let me know .. i would love that one

http://www.blackberrycool.com/2008/02/new-slider-patent-from-rim/
thats the pic

It seems a little odd to me that Rogers will not properly spell BlackBerry, note lower case b in berry, either sloppy or fishy???

Any chance that we may see this on a CDMA network like Verizon??

I think this looks awesome and the B is capitol on the device itself. I can't wait. I hope verizon gets this too!

I don't think the lowercase "b" is the fishy party, but why if it's a Roger's product don't they know the model #? It says 99xx which denotes they have no idea what model it is. Is that normal? I would think that a model number would already be hashed out by the time a carrier has agreed to carry it. But that is just me I am not in the wireless industry.

Seriously I don't think it really matters or needs a conspiracy formed around it.

Back to the subject.

Based off the same looks as the Bold w/o trackball I see this device flopping except for the enthusiast crowd. Unless major changes are made in the coming months (they still have 6 monts). Smallest screen out thre for a touchscreen which is a no no if your getting rid of keyboard navigation for touch-screen ability. They would need to get rid of the classic row of buttons where the trackball used to be (call, end, menu, back).

In truth why the hell would you have those buttons anyways if its touchscreen? LOL that just seems fricken retarded and makes the product a further mutant. You said you would come out with a touchscreen with a keyboard so do just that nothing more and I think people were kind of expecting a Storm/iPhone layout with a slideout keyboard maybe as bulky as the G1 was. I could be wrong but thats the vibe I got reading about the 9900.

At least get rid of those buttons mentioned and add a little more screen instead. It already looks freakishly retarded if this truly is a touchscreen and an extra half-inch to inch is going to help sell this easier. Those are just a few things that can be done better from just looking at it.

I sure hope this is a fake. I will probably just go Bold when its time to upgrade at the end of this year.

Tried and True vs Frankenstein Modern Art retro crap.

This is way over the TOP!!!

The device itself does not excite me that much (touch screen interface on a small screen appears a little strange to me personally). However, this does suggest that RIM is sticking with the touch screen technology; maybe not for all their devices but it does look like it's not just a passing trend.

Some people appear to be saying that they don't like touch screens at all. I would suggest that once refined and provided that you don't have to type using a screen, it really is a superior method of navigating a display. Smartphones are not the only devices going this way; just look at POS terminals, cutting edge home devices, Windows systems and I'd say most input devices going forward.

Good news for both worlds I would suggest. Those who like the touch screen tech will probably continue to see improvements (Storm users) and those wanting both or at least a physical keyboard will not be left behind.

The thing I find intersting is that it looks like it just has silver side rails, similar to an 8800 series, just without the trackball.I wonder if it is going to be similar in size to the 8800 series.

very nice, but yes, i agree, trackball needed!

OK, full disclosure: I've spent little time using the iPhone. I really, really like my Bold. But, my two cents: it's not just the touchscreen that gets people excited about the iPhone. It's how well the OS works with the touchscreen. It's like all the people who used to harsh on ipods for not having a built-in radio, ability to delete songs, removable battery, etc.

I didn't get it until I got an ipod. It just worked so well, and so smoothly. I know the iPhone isn't as perfect as the ipod, but it's pretty close, and it's clear it was designed from the bottom up with a touchscreen in mind. Unless RIM re-boots its OS, it's not going to make a dent in the iphone's popularity.RIM needs to figure out how to fight the iPhone, and playing the "me too" card isn't going to cut it.

Improved even surepress screen; unlike storm

I am not for one minute suggesting I don't like the look of some of these new models however does anyone else agree that RIM's priority right now should be improving what is under the hood? Looking at the work Apple and Palm are doing (particularly the Palm Pre), there are a lot of great new connectivity features coming through. Palm Pre's synchronisation between, im, internet, social web and just about anything else they can imagine is in my eyes a true step forward not to mention the future plans to integrate Flash into their OS later in the year. First impressions of the Pre's browser seems pretty special too while the Blackberry browser still leaves a lot to be desired. Not wanting to start the Pre vs. Apple vs. Blackberry battle too early I am just wonder what RIM has got up it's sleeve to keep up with the competition in OS department. The new models look great but as a Blackberry fan who has put up with some pretty poor OS issues I'd love to think that there is a decent level of investment going into improving the internal workings of the phones aswell.

it's BlackBerry not Blackberry

boy genius says this is photoshopped =(

My next Berry :)

It is great to see RIM looking at numerous options with phone designs. I am sure this will be welcomed by many.

As for me, and being a longtime user, I am not sure this is a fit for me. That is just me. I have the storm right now because of the size of the screen. The touchscreen was a way to have the large screen. If I was limited to a smaller screen, I would not need a touchscreen and would welcome the keyboard and trackball.

Hopefully it's a success and comes with a smoking os.

This is so fake it's ridiculous that it even made it onto the blog.

This is amazing, hope to see it on at&t!

why not a track ball for quick uses while typing and stuff.

The paper isn't even straight lol

The Rogers shot is certainly fake and photoshopped. All you need to do is look at the "Blackberry" error. S/B "BlackBerry." Oh well...

I want to see page 99 lol.

This phone is gonna Kill the competition

I think its gonna be a HOT phone

I guess i can hold off on buying a new BB till this one comes out

A touch screen blackberry is the best thing, its awesome.
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I'd like to see SurePress Touchscreen on this one...
As 9900 will still have real qwerty keyboard, then this SurePress would be OK for onMouseOver effects while surfing web...

For typing, SurePress is terrible... I'm an ex Storm user, and now I'm Bold :)

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=1693&c=rim_blackberry_bold_9900_ri...

i think this is the real 9900 i cant see the berry without a trackball....hate the storm

any update?

The NEW BlackBerry 9900 touchscreen 3G coming December 2010.
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I just got this in my email today. Interesting!

http://www.bgr.com/2011/04/04/leaked-blackberry-bold-touch-videos-showca...

Blackberry needs to focus on the giving the consumer the biggest screen possible. The 9800 Torch offers the best compromise and gives you the best of both worlds. However, if the photos are real the upcoming 9900 seems like more of the same? RIM's competitive advantage over Android phones and the iphone will only come if it can differentiate itself from the pack.