First Video of a Real BlackBerry Monaco (aka Storm 3) Emerges!

i think this is the beginnin of RIM doin somethin good for a change :) listenin 2 it's customers .. i couldnt really care if this lags a bit .. its the first model, i think when they fully release details on it this is gna be a REAL good phone .. i was thinkin iphone 4 or 5 but now i think im gna wait & see what RIM pulls out :)

Video is still online here...

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/A0SwCYa8S3M/

I hope Verizon does not let us down...please bring us the Storm3! I love my Storm....tried a Droid Incredible and came back to my Storm2. I can not wait for the 3!

thank god! I am still rocking this storm 2 and I need a new phone asap!!! I was almost considering the iPhone, really wouldn't have gotten it but its frustrating that my Storm 2 is the best option for a full screen blackberry on Verizon right now. Can not wait till 3rd quarter for this bad boy!

and Droser2000 no LTE or 4G as you refer to it as. it says in specs above evdoREVA. On a mobile device though running a processor with that speed and that much ram back by Verizons network the web will be really fucking quick. Its not like we can torrent download from our blackberrys anyways.

@ ek9max ...yea getting that IPHONE 4 over waiting on this same old slab of crap is great...have fun

Its beautiful! I have decided not to upgrade my phone until the Storm 3 arrives. I love the cursor button as I prefer not to touch my screen.

I have a Torch now and love it. Just wished it had a faster processor which is reported to be in the Torch 2. I'm looking forward to the release of that device. I will be the first in line.

If this is a next generation of Storm, i'm expecting a longer and wider screen, a bigger alphabet so that I'm not slipping again to another alphabet while typing a word. I'm expecting also a long lasting battery, since the Storm2 I previously use had a weaken battery ( one day 2 times charge). Also, a cooler body, coz it easily gets warm, that's why I changed to the Bold 9700, while the Torch is somewhat bulky. So my expectations is :
Longer and wider screen.
Bigger alphabet.
Long lasting battery ( at least 2 days long).
Cooler body.
Sleek.

Not trying to be a troll..... but seeing this makes me glad I switched to iphone a month ago.

I was really hoping the new berries would sway me back to RIM. But this nor the bold touch are even close to enough.

i always like how people compare lag to android phones and how awesoem they are. Honestly I have yet to see an android phone without lag, my roomie has a Droid X and lag is terrible. This phone will be amazing when launched just like the playbook will.

Needs a front facing camera and 4G. My area is supposed to get 4G late 2011 so just do it already!

Of all the things I wish my Storm2 had...a trackpad is not one of them. I will be going back to ATT for the Bold Touch or Torch2. I'm done with Storm....I feel left out and have been missing the true BB experience!

This is sad...compare this to any windows phone..apple or android

this doesnt stand a chance

I like the idea of the same os as the tablet, only if it has full flash capability and can play full length video on for example ABC.com. I also would hope the icon format would be different then the OS6 style, I don't really like it on my bold 9700, the screens go siding around when I really don't want them to, there should be a better way, to be fair, I don't like Android icon presentation either, not familiar with MicroSoft icon presentation other than what I've seen on TV but the concept appeals to me. Personally, I (on TMobile) want a Torch version for TMobile as in, I want a full size screen as well as keyboard. I tried Android on screen keyboard on a Galaxy and hate it. I cannot switch to a screen only for any brand phone/OS. Until the stars line up, I'm staying with 9700 I have, not because I love it that much but because I'm not seeing the features I want to move up to.

Hmmm, it needs work.. But atleast it's not that horrible clicky screen.. Too bad I already switched to the Atrix.. No more blackberries for me.

it needs a front camera

if this is the Storm 3, I am soo glad they got rid of the crappy and annoying garbage called Surepress! Who ever thought of that tech should be fired.

Now the Storm 3 looks laggy, I suspect the lag will be there when it's released.

YAWN about this phone. I'm unimpressed and disappointed. Too little and too late. I hope its a prototype that will be changed to compete directly with the best Android phones otherwise come May...I'm gone.

Ok, I know this is just an early production model of this phone but with those specs how can there be lag??? the 9700 with OS 6 is 100x smoother.

It is very very eary very raery eary very weary... Unimpressive!!!

I hope AT&T gets a version of this phone. If not, I will have to get the Torch model.

Just glad it says Verizon on it! Now get it running right and release it!

please let their be a surepress

please let their be a surepress

please let their be a surepress

playbook would be awesome if its surepress

please god of mobile phones, let their be surepress

this isn't a storm if it doesn't have surepress!!!!!!!

Are they seriously dropping surepress from their line up?

At least they're keeping with the blackberry navigation keys. I hope they never take the trackpad away in future models.

on viewing the video, hopefully thats the curve touch. the back kinda gives it that impression (LOOK at the CHROME and the last few secs of the vid and its thickness) from those earlier concepts but the specs are 1ghz + then its not because the leaks had stated 800mhz? maybe the 1.2ghz got cheaper :P? storm 3 to have dual core? Since it's their flagship touch only device.

well finally a great touchscreen device from RIM besides Torch would really made me want to be back with the BB Team!! still waiting patiently for the Curve Touch though since I really liked curve instead the other family

Please make a givaway! My storm 9500 is falling apart! The screen chipped, the speaker grill is falling off, stereo doesn't work in headphones(only mono) but i still love the storm!!! GIVEAWAY!! GIVEAWAY!! GIVEAWAY!! GIVEAWAY!! GIVEAWAY!! GIVEAWAY!! (please:) )

some people mentioned how leaked versions of the playbook had lag.

can someone be a friend and post an old video, pre-announcement? i must have missed it?

have you thought that this might be the version of Storm 3 Verizion turned down last year, and this is just the first time this video was leaked.

the lag doesn't bother me. the playbook had some lag in the very early videos and now is so smoothe.

i call FAKE!!!! where's the glamourous thumb ring, EH??? a-HA!!!!!!!!!!

RIM should take serious steps to prevent this kind of leak because idiots think this is the final product. Find the dude responsible and fire him.

Are you sure this isn't the curve touch?

After seeing TAT apps on the Playbook I'm giving this storm 3 the side ey o_O . I hope this is OS 6 and they are working extra hard on 6.1 for the release. Its still better specs than my storm 2 so I would still buy it.

ewww. look at that disgusting lag. I swear the specs they put in those things are junk or they just blow at coding a good UI >_>

too laggy... is it really 1,4 ghz?

I am very much a blackberry fan, I even converted a few iphone fans to blackberry, not an easy thing to do. I defend RIM on most of the bashing on tech blogs. Where i am from blackberry make more since and I do love the productivity I get from my Blackberry. However, I do agree that RIM is a very laid back company. I can only feel that the corporate world don't care for all the fancy apps so RIM don't want to lose their number one market. After all, businesses are only successful with maximum productivity and not playing games. With that said i really would love an ex RIM executive to really explain why the company is so late to market with technology and seem so lethargic. Even the CEO s seem nonchalant about how far behind the competition RIM is. Not even the tech blog bashing seem to move the top brass at RIM. For sure one of the new phones coming out this year should at least have a front facing camera. BBM should have face chat this year. If QNX do not come to phones next year I will finally get worried for RIM.

I love that's its bigger and thinner. The screen looks nice too. Can't wait!

Looks awesome!

I'm very glad to see this video. I was a BB fanatic for about 5 years until I finally moved to the Nexus S because the 9700 felt deficient and cumbersome. I'm really hoping this is a sign of good things to come from RIM, because they've done this before. They were an amazing company that kept producing better products until they hit a wall with the 9000. Then they just froze for two years. In that time companies and brands like HTC, Samsung, Android and Apple completely changed the role personal electronics play in consumers' lives. It suddenly seemed terribly outdated to suggest that a phone was just meant for calls and emails. Listening to BlackBerry users was like listening to the final whispers of DOS prior to the rise of Windows. I'm taking a leap of faith and returning to RIM with the Dakota. A faster processor and better browser should hopefully address my previous issues. Please let slate devices with amazing onscreen keyboards and QNX be in the near future for BlackBerry devices. I really want my loyalty to RIM to be justified. It's been a difficult marriage lately and I've already strayed once.

even the pictures of the monaco have a blue arrow that ends with through control keys this is the curve

Is this phone a world-phone like the Tour / Bold / previous storms by Verizon? I notice that the back says Verizon but the service bar says "3G". If it's a world phone it will definitely be a winner. And if I am not mistaken the previous Storms did 2G in the U.S. So a boost to 3G on the GSM network is always welcomed.

Honestly, some of the gestures seemed kind of laggy to me. Perhaps the plastic, but still......

I hope this guy turns out great!!!!

ok from the leaked pistures of the road map this looks a lot more like the malibu curve touch not the monaco and how do we know that the origional leaked picture a while back wasnt the malibu? tahe a look at the leaked slides in the 20011 raod map the malibu curve touch has no buttons just trackpad and the manaco storm3 has buttons and trackpad take a good look

I'm pretty sure this phone will come in both variations, CDMA and GSM. I remember seeing 2 different code names and that possibly ties into the 2 variations. I still know some people that love the surepress technology and were quite happy. Its not for me, but some people like it.

BORING! Too little (including screen size) too late. It's been 2 and a half years since the Storm was introduced, and this all they could come up with in that time frame? ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Most people familiar with Blackberry think RIM dropped the Storm line, everybody else on the planet has never even heard of the Storm.

I can't tell you how many times people see my Storm1 and say, "I didn't know Blackberry made a touch screen phone." They really get confused when I tell them it's not a touch screen, it's a click screen. :-D

I was so happy when I saw the Verizon logo on the back of it. This is going to be my next phone when I'm due for an upgrade!

I really, really hope that Sprint gets this.

The hardware of 2010 and the software of 2009, coming soon in 2011. Thank you, Blackberry!

The legging could be because of the flim of plastic on the screen. I can be wrong tho. What do you think?

Well if RIM is gonna follow the trend of the playbook on their phones as well, this is the first video leak. So we can expect the Monaco 5-6 months from now... that would put us on target around August, for sure.

The phone itself looks very pleasing to the eye, and to hold. You can't put much stock into how laggy it is; it's a leaked video, and it's probably a demo OS. Think how laggy some of those playbook videos were when they first were leaked/released... and now right before release, it looks like the smoothest tablet out there.

The only issue is that you KNOW these phone's aren't going to be announced until May at blackberry world. If they are only announcing them then, we won't see them in our hands for another 3-4 months, or longer even. Which again, puts us on target for August/Sept.

Looks like a great phone, just should have been out by now, not just starting to leak now.

jizz in my pants.

this COULD be the curve touch though. it doesn't seem to have that slimed down part up at the top like the slides showed. thoughts?

I definitely is CDMA, maybe the 1.2 GHz is a dual core 600Mhz and it's so laggy because it's only utilizing 1 of the cores :D

What I really want to see is what happened to the guy who posted the vid. I'll bet he meant to send it to Salomandrin, but instead, hit the YouTube button on his Droid pro. Lol

i miss having two convenience keys :(

Hope the browser is better than what's on other OS 6 models.

I want this BAD! I really, really hope that we don't have to wait until August/September!

Wish we would've seen an about screen on it... Would love to know that number they were gonna use (9530,9550, etc.) But it doesn't really look like a storm it looks more like the Curve Touch...

http://bb-h.me/sB4bk - download mirrors care/of BBH-Plus.net

Is this the Curve touch. I'm only wondering because I don't see think there is surepress on that thing?

Is there any proof that this is the S3? Could it potentially be the BlackBerry Curve Touch due to the trackpad being on it? The about screen wasn't shown and the top between camera/flash there isn't any device name, so I guess I don't know what makes this one or the other aside from the trackpad?

I think I'm in LOVE!!!!!!!!

No LTE No front facing camera No Monaco(Storm3) for me.

And Research In Motion continues to stay 2 steps behind the competition specification-wise. They are aware that 4G is penetrating the market already, right? Way to go RIM!! Now, I am not a touchscreen guy. Nope. The awesome keyboard on my 9650 is the only thing keeping me from moving to Android. Once someone takes the time to invest in a killer physical keyboard on their Android device, I'm gone... I'll be sad too. I love my BlackBerry - but the times are changing. Smartphones need to be more than they needed to be even two years ago.

Sounds great if only they can get it out with 4G, I like the hotspot, but I need 4G. Without 4G I would have to switch (OH NO).

I hope it's true. Contracts up soon. The big red ship better come up with a new bb or it will be minus a few passengers. I'll tell you what they can do with A T&T's left overs. Should have invested in the Atrix and offered another phone for the buiseness class instead of Romper Room.

Not sure if this was ever brought up but, will this be a 4G phone?

Dakota please

I sure hope this isn't the completed version, or it doesn't have the OS6.1 on it because it looks to me like the Storm2 only with a different body...

Hopefully I'm right about it not being a completed version, but still it puts me a bit on edge.

If someone can answer this one question, but wasn't the Monaco supposed to have buttons on the bottom that were actual physical buttons instead of ones that were part of the screen? This kind of tells me that this is not the actual version of the phone.

Looks like he wears the thumb ring on his left hand only!

For those who say this is too laggy:

Since the accelerometer didn't kick in when he tilted the phone to the side on the picture, I am confident this is just a test OS and will, in no way, be representative of the released version.

Very excited about this!

I'm so pumped for this :D

I can't wait for this to come out on Verizon this device is the new storm just with a different name. Come on Verizon finish testing this bad boy and I am eligible for an upgrade too!

Of course this is going to appear sluggish, I'm sure it's basically dummy software they have on that model, as they're probably still finalizing the hardware, it's insanely early. Don't jump to conclusions, the 1.2 ghz processor is going to be lightning.

Now we need a video of the Dakota.

Removed video already, bummer!

@ leonardo twitter you got info

patiently waiting...

Just missed it, this should be my next phone XD

For all those who missed it, here's the video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUi_7tQYjZU

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and then it was gone.

Man i missed it...any one got a copy?

hmmm a rim employee is going to be jobless soon lol

Looks definitively amazing, just a lag on the software but maybe its a demo so its expected to be full accelarated by release, it would be a shame if this phone only hit verizon, and yes I saw the Verizon branding, but we may need it in Sprint too.

any mirrors for video? it was taken down 1min before i was able to view :(

Anyone get a copy before it was removed?

Sluggish, yes, but hopefully there is a good reason and will be corrected before launch. I am definitely ready for an S2 replacement.

Eh....not doing it for me, really. Rumored specs be damned, I'm a little unimpressed, so far.

Looks slow. I'll pass.

Video has been removed by the user... #FAIL

Finally! Is this RIM listening to us and giving us a concrete reason to hope for the Storm future?

Nice

My next BB is ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks nice, but I sure hope that this isn't a final production model.

It's supposed to have a powerful 1.2GHz processor, but the interface still appears quite laggy.

My guess is an early build (hopefully)...

I love the hardware acceleration. :P
haha i kid i kid. but finally a live video :DD

Not incredibly responsive, I'll chalk that off as being an early build though. Still can't wait for these new BB's. I think after the Dakota I might finally make the jump to a full touchscreen .

Sweet! I can't see the sluggishness being there when it releases. The Torch lost that after the first OS update.

Is it me or was it kinda laggy*

hmmm very sluggish and it's not what i would call a real beauty either.

sexy sexy.

YESSSS!
That's what I'm talking about.

Considering this is a video of a video... makes you wonder how old the original video was. I'm sure it's a very early build.

Pretty slick.. Now all I need to see is the Bold Touch :P