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RIM's New Blackberry Ditches Thumboard

Posted by timothy on from the but-that-was-the-coolest-thing-about-it dept.

Eric Giguere writes "Research In Motion's newest BlackBerry, the 7100t, aka 'Charm,' has a more conventional phone form factor. It does this by ditching the thumb keyboard for an extended keypad with predictive text input. It also adds Bluetooth. The changes are mostly physical, the device is still running the same basic software -- existing Java apps should run with only minor changes. More details at the BlackBerry.com website." xRelisH supplies this link to a review of the device from MSNBC.

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  1. Re:exist? by Kenja · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    "It's freaking java. Why do all of these device makers continue to change small things that make all of the previous software libraries not work!"

    Your right! All computers ever made and that ever will be made should have the same exact interface and hardware. None of this "diferent screen resolution" crap.

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