AAAAWWWWWWWESSSSSSSSOOOOOMMMMMME can't wait to see if she comes to fruition

I hate SurePress

Cool device but it would be better if it had an OS preloaded. Just wondering what carrier may get it first???? hmmmmm

Interesting video. I have a feeling that the Dakota will be just a 9700 with a touch screen based off the fact that the Magnum was just a 9000 with a touch screen. Not sure how i feel about having a track pad AND a touch screen though.

Great job CellGuru!

how long would it be until we see a video of the Magnum with software preloaded??..I like the size of the Bold 9000, but I love my 8900. can't wait to see more.

the 8707g was the first 3g blackberry idiot

That device should be destroyed and never sold. Rim needs to stop making more of the same thing, and start innovating. This is not innovation. This is incest between two Blackberrys.

I understand the concept of having a front-facing QWERTY with a touchscreen. Great idea. But SurePress with a QWERTY...RIM needs to re-think that.

Don't get me wrong, I like SurePress...but not a good combination.

I would love to see something like this come out. I wold prefer a slide out keyboard so I could have a bigger screen. I wonder what RIM moved on to after this?

the bold is by far the best looking phone ever. I would have been all over that if RIM decided to go along with it.

thats pretty tight

Awww man ... Come on! A click clack touch screen?

The touch should be more like iphone, nexus, or palm pre!

What is BB doing!!!!

Not being a guru, what's so bad about having a qwerty keyboard and touch screen together? Seems like the best of both worlds to me. I love my 9700 and the trackpad is awesome. I'd think if it still had all that plus a touch screen with functions like flick scrolling, man it would just be the best device ever made!

Bro... The touch features should be like iphone, nexus or even palm pre!!!

Make a real cross over phone RIM!!! No click clack screens!!!

hmm.. interesting, surepress aint that bad, but keyboard and press on the screen idk about that... geez RIM ... you guys ran out of ideas... ha.

I see what they tried to do there...but I'm lost on the appeal for how they had it set up. Something like the Samsung Moment, a slider with QWERTY and a touch-screen works. But to have a phone like that especially with surepress...eh. Not feeling it. Seems like it would be cumbersome in the long run.

now thats what i am talking about.. NICEE....

touchscreen + qwerty keyboard.. :D

i would buy it, mainly for the size of the keyboard. as far as touchscreen, apple,palm, and htc have a way better experience lined up. :/

Although the Bold 9000 screen is bigger than my 9700 screen. I still don't think that it is big enough to have a surepress touchscreen. I see this combination being problematic on such a smaller screen. I found the surepress to be somewhat challenging on the Storm which has twice the screen size.

SurePress blows,and that screen is nowhere close to being big enough.RIM did the right thing.Now where is the Talladega?

Well if it do come out we can bet that its gonna have the Storm2 type of screen.

Very cool... Pretty much something that will be outstanding with touchscreen and a real tradtional BB keyboard.

Sadly, I'm just finding I really miss my roller-ball/trac-pad as I do a lot of typing and positioning the quickly curser to text edit is usually the biggest frustration I'm getting with touch screens. Add a trac-pad and we're truly styling.

Always "something" keeping them from being perfect huh?

The Magnum project seemed to be very interesting. I wonder what caused RIM to go away from that. Was it the small touch screen, sure press? I could see something like that getting a lot of attention/buys form the loyal and people new to BlackBerry. Hopefully RIM is working on something with that combination and the screen is larger to work with. You never know. The prototype did get a lot of "drools". Hopefully the ideas of the loyal will generate outstanding input for RIM to create a great BlackBerry!

This thing was rightfully scrapped. The main advantage that touch screen devices have over regular devices with a solid keyboard is more screen real estate. For a wider screen, people are willing to put up with a touch screen, which, although great for media applications, is hellish to use for typing e-mails and such. The idea of a touch screen with a screen as small as most regular devices is frighteningly repulsive. It would be extraordinarily cumbersome, and there would be no point to it, since it would have lost the only advantage that touch screen devices have. Keep working on it, RIM. There has to be a better solution...

this is certainly good news. Good way to wake a fella up...idk about the Surepress though. Hopefully RIM rethink about it.

I would personally love to have this phone. It would be perfect for me!

a blackberry that looks and feels just like an old Palm device... and we saw that idea/theory/practice tank... and EVERYONE can't wait for the all might RIM made Palm phone..... wow ....

obviously quite old based on it being the original Bold form factor... my very first reaction was "sure press? wtf???" buuuuut... having owned a few touchscreen devices (iphone 2G, 3GS, Nexus)... have a touchscreen that can be handled, but not inadvertently "touched", while not being off or locked-down is kinda nice... great application on a BB since i never lock or put to sleep my BB 9700 when putting it in the holster, and often touch/hold it by the screen when putting it in... so sure-press might actually be handy in that case

Am I the only one who loves the Bold form factor? I love its size even though people think it's too big. I would be open to seeing this phone come to life so long as it's not too small, ala Bold 9700.

Blackberry FAIL!

Understanding the frustration of most users but this is a company with its own developmental staff and R/D. It's no surprise they went with Sure Touch being that it's BB's trade mark. I, maybe alone on this, think its a practical approach to combining the two input methods. If you look at the size of the icons used in the BB OS you'll see how they lend themselves to a touch screen. For OS navigation this is perfect. Although it doesn't lend itself to web usage it still has an advantage to track ball/pad navagation. I am looking forward to a production model and will indure with my Tour untill the possible, if not improbable, release.