BlackBerry Thunder live shots
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Filed in BlackBerry, Handsets, Verizon
Dying to get a sneak peek at the BlackBerry Thunder’s on-screen keyboard? Had enough with the iPhone madness? Check out these shots that surfaced yesterday evening. While we can’t tell how well the unit works from the pictures, you can certainly get a feel for how it’s going to look. We’ve heard that there are newer OS versions floating around, so let’s just hope RIM plans to skin those keyboards faster than an Alabamian on a puma — they’re hideous.
Tags: blackberry thunder, QWERTY, RIM, touch screen, Verizon
Oh dear god, I hope it looks a lot better. I wonder what all the fuss is these days about touch centric devices. I am perfectly happy with my faithful 8800 from ATT, and it can do everything that other devices (aka Tilt, Centro) can do, and it does it faster. In fact, I initially got a Tilt, but returned it after a week because of how slow it was.
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Bring it on baby, tired if iSuck.
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Bring it on baby, tired of iSuck.
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its looking good
looks like a solid device to take down the jesus phone.
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No credit given to Crackberry for supplying the pictures? Can you did up some that show the GUI in action?
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it says crackerry on the pictures and the link is to crackberry.
wth is with suretype keyboard? is there not enough room for qwerty when its not in landscape? very strange.
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Crackberry’s name is all over the picture, also when you click the Read link, it takes you to their page.
I to am hoping for some more pictures of the OS in action, or a video clip of it.
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I actually like the look of the keyboard, it looks simple and has good contrast. It actually looks like the keys are made of little rubber buttons. If the feel of the keyboards lives up to the look, it would be a very functional keyboard to type on.
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BGR why is RIM crying………
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Interesting that there’s no VZW bradning on this shot…
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Frankly, I’ll take a “hideously” skinned virtual keyboard and working calendar sync over iCal and MobileMe at this point.
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The keyboard in landscape is full qwerty, the keyboard in portrait is suretype.
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you right my bad sith.
still no fan of suretype, I’m sure there must be a setting to go all qwerty.
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Uhh no verizon branding
But whatever prolly a test unit
Hasta la victoria to the bitter end
I still prefer berries instead of apples
The keyboard doesn’t do it for me tho…might need to see it in action, but none the less I like looking at a future product I will own!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Looks like RIM is making progress, can’t wait to see the final product (hopefully it really will be Novemberish)
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why u dis crackberry last week and cop their photos this week? y’all should just kiss and make nice nice already. right now it looks like you’re trying to play both sides, bgr, and it don’t look good.
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Where is all the crying about lack of physical keyboard and inability to feel the keys. Wasn’t this the major negative for the iPhone. RIMM better execute that keyboard better then Apple did. What do you think, 1 mil sales and lines around the corner on the first day? Uhhh, unlikely.
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I can’t get excited over this. It is a me-too device from RIM. All the anti-Apple BB fanboys have been crowing about the lack of a “real” keyboard on the iPhone, and now RIM has one a year late and behind schedule and its the second coming?
I’m have a BlackBerry now, previously had a WM device and a Treo (PalmOS) before that, so I’m not particularly religious to any platform, but I think the BlackBerry is a day late here. For all the talk of a “business” phone, I’m not sure how the BB is so superior. WinMo and now iPhone have full Exchange support, without the expensive BES, and BIS users are just SOL. There is no HTML mail support, and while from a lot of perspectives I understand and agree with that it doesn’t work so well in the real world. The “new” OS version seems perpetually delayed and there aren’t even any CDMA beta versions public yet.
Also, “Alabamian on a puma”? Haha, I know a lot of people in Alabama but have never seen one on a puma. Are there even pumas native to Alabama?
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I hate it and I will NEVER use it even if it was given to me for free. Touch kb is the reason I don’t have an iPhone.
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Tu, you said it two times!
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Chorizoman likes. Not sure about the Sure-Type in portrait mode, I guess that was done because the keys would be way to small to use, especially in a touch-screen. Any ideas as to how big/small it is? Is it smaller than the 8800? And how thick is it? One more thing, seeing how this will be a CDMA phone at first, has anyone else seen the pics of the Thunder branded with the Vodafone logo on crackberries.com? Last I checked Vodafone was GSM.
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The keyboard doesn’t match the translucent skin of the media player(as seen in previous pics). BTW they could tint the translucent skin with a little black, that way it’d match the outer layer of the phone, for an even more consistent look.
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THIS PHONE DOES NOT EVEN COME CLOSE TO THE 3G IPHONE, AS MR.TYLER SAYS… DREAM ON, DREAM ON, DREAM ON, DREAM IT TIL YOUR DREAM (doesn’t come)TRUE…
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@ jsc
Tell us more about the iCal/mobileme/sync problems you’re talking about.
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crackberrys are for the crackheads!…
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