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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. Hmm.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Over at Cell Phone Review (they do PDA's and other related items as well) they took a peak at this new RIM. I dont know what you might think, but I think its just the same gimmick repackaged. They do have some nice pictures there though.

  2. Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Over at Cell Phone Review (they do PDA's and other related items as well) they took a peak at this new RIM. I dont know what you might think, but I think its just the same gimmick repackaged. They do have some nice pictures there though.

  3. Re:U.S. death toll in Iraq tops 10,000 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I sure there are some Chechyens (sp?) that would love to listen.

    They're called dumbasses.

  4. Re:The price by dasmegabyte · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm not going to read the article. I don't care about cell phones...I was reading the slashdot comments to see real users' perceptions of the thumboard input system (being an HID nerd) and discovered this lovely post talking about how cheap the thing is.

    Call me old fashioned, but for a device that does everything the Blackberry purports to do, $400 is not all that much. $200 is embarrassingly cheap...meaning that there has to be a catch somewhere. This thing has a very set demand, so if they're able to sell it for so little, they must have skimped in the design process somewhere. Maybe the $199 is with a nine year contract, maybe they just reused a lot of code to reduce the cost...or maybe they skimped in a lot of areas. Either way, I'm sticking with my $75 for 4 phones Verizon deal -- because even though Verizon sucks, they're still better than everybody else in my area and at least I'm not paying a lot for the shitty service.

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  5. Odius - Learned a word, did ya ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Did you just learn this word ? Fag. Like you could afford a BlackBerry. Stick 2 UR SMS, fag.

    You're Odius-motherfucker.