I want it now! :(

TiiiiIighhhtttt!!!!

When's it out?

perfection RIM u gettin there now minus the touch screen and u have speed and battery life just a 256mb more of ram and lets go 4g with a front camera

I just died.

Awesome! I can't wait to the GSM version of this phone!!

Oh man! Glad to see this is cdma! I want it!

My long awaited MoJo device...
Can't wait to c it for real!!

Now I am excited.

I hope these release at the same time (early summer).

This is what I like to see. I'm going to be getting one of these when they come out. Good stuff CrackBerry Team on the Reveal. You've made me a very happy Berry User.

Are you sure about that length of 155mm? The original Bold 9000 was 114mm. The screen is a bit bigger but not that much.

When I saw the article title I thought that there was no more dakota and the only hybrid was cdma. Thank god gsm will still get one

This with QNX with Dalvik and ability to use any app from Android market. That is all.

Perfecto..
But why minus the touch screen for battery saving & speed!? Why not just a better n enhanced battery to handle the screen =D guess the processor is anywayz good enough to be speedy as much!!
256 MB more Ram for front cam but do we have such netork to handle a video call!? (Notwithstanding wi-fi though!)

All in all great enhancements.. Magnetometer - accelerometer - proximity - Advanced OS 6.1 with OpelGL .. Whoa!! Take graphics to a whole new ethereal beauty man!!

OMG.. what us people that need real keyboards always wanted! hooray :D

I don't understand why add a touchscreen to this, it doesn't feel right reaching up to touch the screen and then down to type let alone the tiny screen.

Definitely sounds like a winner. Firefly this comes out to all CDMA carriers.

RIM stepping up the game for CDMA that's what I like to see. Team Blackberry!

I would be buying this, but Sprint just changed it's update eligibility for Premier customers. Now I have to wait another year to upgrade.

So I am fairly new to fully understanding CDMA and GSM, but I realize that Verizon, my phone carrier, uses CDMA. With the Montana coming out under CDMA, does this mean that Verizon will be getting this or another carrier might get exclusive rights to it, or is it impossible to know for sure yet?

Man, the device and specs look great. But I'll have to try it out for sure before I buy it. It's 6 inches long if the specs hold true, making it 1.5 inches longer than the BOLD 9000 but also thinner. Definitely will be taking advantage of VZW's new 14 day policy. But it looks darn good though!

PLEASE let this be true and VERIZON PLEASE get this phone! I am dying for verizon to upgrade their blackberry choices!

This is pretty revolutionary for rim/blackberry. Reminds me of when I first saw the bold 9000. Didn't rogers get that as an early exclusive like at&t did with the torch?... I hope that happens again with the dakota :p

Screen resolution for the size of the screen is more than good, in fact it's great. Can't wait to see it.

Love the sleekness of it, hope it feels nice in the hand

I cant wait for Verizon to get this new BlackBerry!!!

Am I missing something, doesn't the specs for this phone say its a GSM phone and not CDMA?

Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE; Dual Band UMTS (HSPA 7.2/5.76) 900/2100MHz

This is gonna rock!

If this is for real, I will wait for this above and beyond any other BB slated to launch on VZW. If it really looks like an evolution of the Bold 9000 I will be the happiest person ever!

I just need to find a job that will pay for my new Montana ha. Love my Tour but why do I still yearn for a front facing camera and LTE connection, but I will be surely happy with this for now

It does say GSM in the specs...I also believe the dimensions are wrong as well, if you look at the first exclusive news article that talks about all the different new phones coming out, for this phone it says it's 115 mm long, not 155 mm. That would make a little more sense...i hope lol

Look at how thin it is. I wonder how the battery looks

Well, in a much more modern version, we are now getting back to where the Treo was. Keys and touch screen. (I rarely used the stylus). And yes, I most certainly liked that.

I want this phone. I can't wait for it to come out. I hope the battery life is good on it.

This is the device for me! When I first heard about the Dakota I was hoping that there will be a CDMA version coming out. Having mobile hotspot capability is really nice too!! :-)

Dimensions: 155 x 66 x 10.5mm-

it sould be : 115 x 66 x 10.5mm

Does "800/1900 MHz EvDO Rev A with Receive Diversity (PCS Only)" mean LTE?

Sweet, I want this.

Shes beautiful :) just bought my 9700(first bb) and i will have this....

It is good that all carriers should be able to get this. I am patiently/impatiently waiting for it to drop on at&t :D.

I def want this

yessss. I saw an article on the Dakota but was worried it would only be for ATT now that i see it will be in CDMA format, me being a sprint customer i have a chance on having one. Its going to have that Bold 9000 form factor that i loved so much. and a touch screen? i'll be in heaven. Best Blackberry news ive heard all day ;). I just wish I didnt have to wait so long. I gotta be patient ugh!!!

This is why I will be leaving Blackberry. I am tired of waiting for the next great blackberry to arrive. Its never coming. A phone that is due out 8 months from now will have a 5mp camera and 8gb of storage. By that time their competition will probably have a 15 mp camera with 1 tb of storage. For me, they just keep refreshing the same devices over and over and just tweek them a little. They need to concede their market share of non business accounts

Wow! The Specs On This Phone Blew Me Away Alittle! Looks Like A Nice Phone!

Hmmm love my torch but loved the old 9000 too... may be getting the GSM version of this.

F-I-N-A-L-L-Y...I was just about to buy an old 8830 or a used 8700 because I cant TAKE this teensy tiny keyboard on my 9650 anymore. At least with this coming to Verizon (and you better vzw) I can hold off myself until it arrives. :) :) :)

This is the phone I was hoping for when the Bold 9650 came out. They had leaks about it then. When it never happened, I got the Bold. Glad to see RIM with some nice phones coming out.

Is it just me or is this gonna be the same width as a bold 9000? If that's true, I've fallen in love again!!!!

Quarter 3 of 2011 with these specs? They need to release it now to make a splash.

So no dual core or lte? No thanks....bionic here I come. Love this form factor though and it looks like a step in the right direction! Maybe a stepping stone to qnx???

Damn i want... *wipes drool off*

I would be buying this,But i don't know what was the battery system please tell me........

Looks like I'll be sitting on my upgrad in March, and signing a 1 year contract when this gets here, just in case QNX does arrive on something awesome.

I want it NOW!!!

Taking into account a few of the above comments......I am happy this is on its way out. But I may not get it.

Back when I got my Tour, it should have been the Bold. Now that I have a Bold, which i LOVE, I can sort of say it should have been the Montana.

While I will be very tempted to use my NE2 (my last one, due in May), I may hold out. We know at some point QNX and LTE are somewhere on the horizon. How far beyond this Spring (my NE2), I don't know. If I get the feeling that it will be a while longer, I would heavily consider this. I like the bigger form factor.

We'll see. I am not a huge fan of OS6 right now (back on .975), but with Theme Studio for OS6 now leaked, we know OS6 themes will be on their way.

Looking forward to seeing what happens with this!!!

Was wondering if Sprint will include high-speed push to talk on this phone? Sprint's version of Nextel's direct connect.

This would be sweet, if it was released Q1 but a Q3 release is a little too late.

By the time this is released (assuming it's a Q3 release) other platforms will be running on LTE with dual cores.

RIM was too busy developing and promoting the Playbook for CES and did not release any information on new BB smartphones, their bread and butter. HUGE MISTAKE as the majority of the smartphone population assumes RIM has nothing in the pipeline for the immediate future.

I don't see many people buying the Dakota and Montana as most consumer markets (and slowly business markets) are buying up androids and iPhones.

"Good play :) but Android/iPhone fanboys whine about a lot more other things than just megapixels and storage space. Waltz down to BGR and take a look at the comments. By gosh those kids..."

Actually I have owned Blackberry exclusivly for the past few years on Verizon. (7250, 8830, 8330 curve, tour, 8530 curve and now Bold. I have never owned a iphone or droid. They just seem evolve so slowly. The increases are minimal and if a world where tech is outdated in a 3 month period, they release devices 3 years behind the times. The "impressive " specs that this phone has would be impressive compared to their competition 2 years ago. The camera is just one example The fact that they release devices with specs like a 3.2 mp camera while others are releasing 8mp. So if I was them knowing I am not going to release the phone until Q3, I would have a 10 mp in the specs knowing my comp will prob have it by then. Like I said the camera is just one example, but the logic applies to all of the specs

The big question is, will it be offered on VZW before Sprint has had it for a year?

Hopefully Sprint and Verizon push RIM to make these phones compatibles with WiMax and LTE 4G respectively, if not and in the evoluting market, what's worth a new device almost coming towards the end of 2011 without 4G? Think RIM.

I don't see flash

I don't see flash

I don't see flash

Just now

This is more like it. Can't help noticing the screen resolution versus the ability to record 720p HD. I might be wrong but is that screen capable of displaying the 720 images it records?

This is the form factor I've been wanting on Verizon since the Bold 9000 came out. This with QNX would be perfect! I guess I'll pass for now and wait until this one hits EOL sometime in Q2 or Q3 of 2012.

Looks like the first Blackberry that might come out that would actually pull me back from Adroid

I like this. It could draw me from my Storm. Hope it'll have Flash!

I have a thing for big blackberrys like the 9000. They're sexy lol.

I hope they will have a non camera version of this phone so I can upgrade from my 9650!

I sure do wish the market for cell phones and carriers was like Europe. In Europe the phones are sold seperately from the carrier. It is far more open like this and the consumer then therefore has a voice in that cell phone manufacturers have to compete for their customers. We wouldn't be waiting all the time if this were the scenario. Our situation in the United States truly sux!

WHO WILL BE CARRYING THIS?! Verizon needs a torch-like product so I am very curious to know which carrier will be selling this model!! :)

i will so stretch the life of my 833o for this to come out ...pure brilliance at it's finest

I love the carbon fiber cover::D see more pics here: http://devicearea.com/?p=821