crackberry has obtained the BlackBerry Thunder live photos, which is also rumored to be called BlackBerry 9500 when available. The BlackBerry Thunder is the first full touch screen BlackBerry smartphone from RIM, it has 4 shortcut key buttons below the display screen, and text input is rely on the virtual keyboard like the iPhone.

While you will get a full QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode, a SureType keyboard is used in potrait mode. Not all the users will love this implementation, although this will give you a bigger size for each buttons. Of course what you see here should be a prototype, it is not final until you see the official announcement this year.

Source [crackberry]

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