More BlackBerry Slider Pics Show Up Online

Can't wait to get one of these.

hmmm okay, I am getting more interested, just barely thicker than the 8900.

I want one, when can I get it ???

Interesting... Definitely a BlackBerry to check out.

I am guessing that since it is only the screen that slides up, it might not be as top-heavy as first thought? Most of the actual components (camera, battery, keyboard) seem to all stay with the keyboard, so they will remain at the bottom of the device while the screen goes up...

Interesting... :)

Im just wondering if it will be the flagship or if its just another new model? Hoping for atleast a 1ghz processor and the good camera.

conveinience key only on one side???

This device isn't "top heavy" in any sense of the word...

I wasn't a huge fan of this design, but with these new pics, i must say i am getting more interested in this phone...looks nicely sized. definitely have to check this out.

the device is not top heavy like the palm. the part that is in your hand is heavy so it wont be dropping when you are typing. one worry is cleared!

Yawn

Nothin to special about these pics. I am still very interested in it though. Hopefully we'll get some specs one of these day

Why not include a picture of the keyboard? If, of course, it will have one...

I guess we're a little closer to reality. I'm still going to wait to see it before I believe it. May be fun to fart around with.

"Past prerelease devices such as the Bold 9000 first showed up wearing a plastic battery door. A far stretch from the leather backing it arrived with at release."

SHOULD BE:

"Past prerelease devices such as the Bold 9000 first showed up wearing a plastic battery door, a far stretch from the leather backing it arrived with at release."

Come on Blaze, get with it!!! And don't tell me you did that on purpose to have me read this article! No excuses!!!

I want this device! Please come to T-Mobile with 3G, I will be in heaven.

Why couldn't they just have made a Bold 9000 size device with a QWERTY keyboard and a touchscreen?

Nothin to special about these pics. I am still very interested in it though. Hopefully we'll get some specs one of these day

I don't see anywhere in these pics a slot for a media card??? maybe it will be on the screen side of the device? Total speculation of course.

The more I see, the more I want it! Doesn't seem like it would be top heavy, and if it has a touch screen as well it might actually get me into the newer bb's.

It's not much bigger then the 8900. I thought the way it looked in other pictures it was going to be a very big, out of shape ugly phone. Not at all, very clean and neat. I want just a few simple things, touch screen, wifi, great OS with great browser, able to download apps to memory card, stereo speakers, front camera for skype calling ect. and a ton of memory. Downloading apps to memory card would help the memory situation but adding much more memory will not suck. Not only downloading the apps to memory card but of course being able to one click using them from memory card as well. I can probably think of more but those few changes would be great.
PS I know what I forgot, better GPS.
Vinny

I've always loved slider phones and now my favorite people are making one! Can't get much better than that!

Looks very interesting to me. Just the screen sliding makes sense, leaving the bulk of the weight with the keyboard as well as the ability to grip and type like a normal blackberry. I actually wouldn't care if it wasn't a touch screen (though we have seen the previous photos of the screen and know it is a capcitive touch). I pray it does NOT have surepress and does not have the icons like the Storm OS. Just leave them the same as in the current Bold and such. I would say give us 1gig of RAM but then you could fit most of the apps in app world on it! Webkit browser, 1Ghz processor, LTE (it could happen!), 850x480 screen res, and the 5mp liquid lense camera and this would be the definite flagship berry. Why not throw 16GB on board for movies/music also for fun. Dreaming here.....

Pretty soon... RIM will offer models in every type:

QWERTY/candybar, touchscreen, flip, and now slider.

Why not?

YAWN. RIM continues to miss the point. They keep adding a bunch of chrome and polish to an OS that was out of date 3 years ago. Adding a potentially faulty sliding keyboard to a lackluster unfriendly and unhuman OS does not fix things. Sure it fills a needs. It addresses issues that Storm and Storm 2 owners have had which is a lack of physical keyboard. Nothing else. It doesn't fix their antiquated UI, 2005 era browser, or mediocre social networking. Sure it does email. Except that my Palm Pre (yes both are activated simultaneously) gets email faster than my Tour AND I don't have to waste $20 a month to get something as simple as Exchange access. This phone is as exciting as a papercut. Blackberry is as banal as it gets.

some one turn on the bloody device

I'm even more excited with these new pics!
It looks more 9700-ish then it did in the original post.
I do hope the second convenience key makes it into the production model though!

Nice and compact, full keyboard, nice big screen (hopefully with touch)...

I just can't wait! This is the BlackBerry I've been wanting since I first picked up my old Curve 8310!

This phone is ugly. The sliding to the top thing is a turn off. If they had made the phone slide out from the side I would have more interest. I'll pass on this and wait it out. Anyways I still like my Storm 2.

no left side convenience key huh???

Will they be able to make an Otterbox for this. I'm not sure if that would work.

no left side convenience key, headset jack over the volume rocker...poo.

If you look closely at the SIM card slot, is that the media card housing above it?

According to BBleaks tweet, this device is not called the 9700a. Supposedly, it will blow our minds.

http://twitter.com/bbleaks/status/10393115183

It looks a lot better at these angels. Um, idk why the battery is so small. They could have given this thing a battery much like the 9700. The 8900 form factor is old news if you ask me.

Dont get me wrong i love Blackberries. But come on RIM give us what we want. A Storm with a Slide out keyboard from the side. Not from the bottom. Are people @ rim dumb. This is a wack phone. If RIM is serious about being number 1 then get with the program. And Yes a Higher Camera then 3.2mp. Some kind of Flash. A snapdragon Pros. Now that would be a hell of a blackberry.

This has got to be the ugliest thing since Jennifer Lopez married Mark Anthony.

Hopefully RIM gets their act together and releases this phone by the end of summer along with OS 6.0 and the webkit browser. They're playing catch up right now and the longer it takes for this phone to get to market the further behind they will be.

I'd love to see this in the Pearl form factor with touch screen, and a side sliding full qwerty keyboard, using it in candybar mode for quick sms messages and using facebook and twitter etc and useing the side sliding qwerty keyboard for web browsing, email and using Documents To Go or Google Apps like Google Calendar and Docs.

I think RIM really need to add a front facing camera to there 3G devices. Would be nice if RIM could add 3.5G or 3.75G to there devices for added speed. Glad to see RIM going more consumer friendly with there full qwerty devices though. Would love to see the two way slide feature that the Nokia N95 has where the screen slides down a bit to reveal media player buttons so that you don't have to keep the Media app open to control it, maybe even bring back the old pressing Mute to put the device into standby, even if it's just by adding a dedicated convenience key, and adding back the second convenience key and side loaded micro SD slot as it'salot more convenient than having to pull the battery, my HTC S710 the wifes HTC Touch and my Sony Ericsson W910i and even my Pearl 8110 has got a side loading memory card slot with a cover to protect it, My LG Shine has got memory card slot under the battery cover that doesn't even require the battery to be removed to access the memory card, small niggles I know but RIM should take note of this type of thing it they want to keep the consumer happy and not just the Business user.

Roland

i think rim better making storm & bold more better than the old one, coz i love that 2 model very much. big screen and keyboard, and etc. ...etc ..

I love my BIG 9700 battery!
This is to small..

I stir don't know what I thonk about this device. New hardware doesn't seem to be the answer for RIM. But I am willing to het that it will be just as good as any BlackBerry device that is out now. That would be a good and bad thing.

Needs to charge this thing and power it up.....

how big the screen will be.

This device would look a lot better if they dropped the chrome trim we saw in the earlier pics and kept it all black.

If a have a chance to buy this i will just to get out of verizon, I hope t-mobile, be the provider of this phone, because i'm really tired of verizon and this piece of crap, storm 2.

I will always regret let go my iphone for this piece of fine equipment, (storm 1 and storm 2). just because i need de BlackBerry Messenger. ( this is the only good thing about any blackberry).

I hate the blackberry processor and the flash memory and is too limited to surf in internet, play games, and other thing, that the iphone is million times better..

guys don't hate me, but is the truth. just i'm applying freedom of speech.

P.s i'm sorry if i have any mistake typing but my english is not really perfect..

Any news on the Bands it will have or memory??

I'm more interested in the OS6 it's supposedly running.

i am not interested in this phone.

i think 9700 has good hardware specs
but comparing to hardware...
software(OS) sucks....

RIM should work more on device software part instead of new hardware every 3 months...

This is an ugly phone. I don't understand the fascination with BB. BB makes simple upgrades to its phones and passes them off for the next big thing.
Unbelievable!

To me, it looks like the microUSB slot is still pretty low on the device. You might not be able to hold it and charge at the same time....

Looks okay for what it is. Would definitely like to see a storm size phone/screen with a landscape (side sliding) keyboard. I don't have the best eyes so I like a bigger screen and web pages are generally easier to read in landscape, not to mention the keyboard could likely be bigger and easier to use in landscape. Oh well, maybe in time...

I don't like this design at all.

The battery is way too small if this device has 3G. I love the battery life on my 9700 and there's no way this device will stack up to the 9700. I'm beginning to think it's a non 3G device since they keep comparing it to the size of the 8900. I guess we'll wait and see.

This is getting even more interesting. I think this is closer to release than they are leading on. I just hope T-Mo will be selling this device.

I wish it was out already.

i dont like it, its a weak design and its putting rim into devices getting defective even faster, if this phone drop and it will thats it say goodbye and what case will be there to protect it in case of a hard pull and thug, or knock, otterbox is pretty good at protection but with all this slide slide dont look like we will be seeing a case in a form factor that stands up with this, leather cases are just not rugged enough. havent even master the storm yet and already a slider with a another touch screen well we will see this goes at press time, will it stand up to the performance and hype only time will tell. one things for i had enough of these slide slide phones and they dont last long, i dont think not even rim will be able to make this a break through. thats my 2 cents, slide phones is no way tougher than straight phones. and i guess we are getting led astray with good looks these days instead of quality products well let it roll.

I have noticed from the picture of the back of the phone with no back cover that there does not seem to be a slot to put a memory card! On the 8900 there is a slot by the Sim Card Slot to put this. On the Pearl this slot is on the side of the device under a rubber cover...on these Pictures there does not seem to be either of these access points!

Does anyone know whether this Device will be MicroSD ready?? I would think a new device would be pretty useless in this day and age if does not!

And I just got the inside scoop for sure at least Sprint is getting this phone - as I was playing with the test 9650 Bold- and according to my info its coming out sooner than later!