Images of a purported next-generation full-QWERTY BlackBerry have surfaced on a Chinese website. MaxPDA has been relatively credible in terms of their BlackBerry leaks. Earlier we reported on their PlayBook OS 2.0 screenshots that made their way out. We aren’t ruling out that the above pictured device could merely be a Chinese fake. The keyboard is unlike any past keyboard BlackBerry users have become accustom to. Then again, RIM could be trying to re-invent their design, but the keyboard doesn’t look all too revolutionary.
The picture quality is pretty terrible, as with most spy shots. Is it that hard to take a clear pic?! Nonetheless, as you can see, you can barely make out the UI style for the operating system. Is it QNX? Can’t really tell. Apparently, more information regarding this device is supposed to release soon. Rumors so far have suggested that the only QNX style BlackBerry currently in development is a slate device, but we wouldn’t rule out RIM designing a QWERTY version too. Take all of this with a grain of salt, but what do you make of the pictured device? Is it a fake, prototype, or possibly a next-generation QNX superphone?
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Looks like a fake to me.
If that’s real then RIM should declare bankruptcy now.
this has to be fake!
this looks like a nokia meets a blackberry had random sex got pregnant and made a kid and this is what it turns out to look like!
its defs running bbos 6/7 you can see profiles on right, network top right, search under that, and you can see sliding panes.
I hope this is just a fake! The design is not any revolutionary, it’s ugly! And the silver color looks very old fashioned! I believe that RIM is going to bring an awesome QNX device…I hope so!
So ugly. RIM will be done and I am swithching to Android if that’s what the superphone going to look like.
doubt it but an early early build for a qnx qwerty phone – you’d at least put it in a blackberry shell to at least hide the fact it’s using a new OS. From what I’ve heard, RIM have been stating that the first QNX smartphone will be a touch only affair so any rumours about a qwerty QNX smartphone would be one for the gullible people out there.
China is known for their fake BlackBerries – fake everything really.
Don’t trust spy shots from China.
The author insists that the really thing is much better, and he will get one in several days. Just wait and see.
That is just fake knock off China crap. If that is real then RIM is dead as the critics said.