Boy Genius Report has posted pictures of the BlackBerry 9670 — a CDMA clamshell phone running BlackBerry OS 6.0. Using CDMA tech means it will be headed to Sprint or Verizon in America. Here are more details from the site:
The BlackBerry 9670 is a CDMA device packed to the brim with a full QWERTY keyboard, 5 megapixel camera (a first!), Wi-Fi, a 360×480 internal display, huge external display, trackpad, OS 6.0, microUSB port, microSD internal storage slot, Bluetooth, and a metallic finish casing.
I really have to roll my eyes at RIM on this one. A flip phone? Really?!? I’d quote the Black Eyed Peas and say that the company is “so 2000-and-late”…but it would be more accurate to say that it’s stuck in 2002. The smartphone market is currently dominated by candy-bar and slider phones. I don’t hear anyone clamoring for the return of clamshell phones. Perhaps RIM thinks the Motorola RAZR is still cutting edge. *sigh*
Perhaps I’m wrong about this one. What do you think of the design? Do flip phones have a place in 2010?
Sure they do. My mother needs a dang flip phone because if she pockets dials me much more on her TouchPro2 I'll go insane. I've checked and you can't lock out the touch screen on that phone. Press a button and it comes on touch the screen and your dialing, convenient until its in your pocket.
My father asked me next time I upgraded his phone to try and find him a flip phone (considered the jitterbug) I don't say this like my parents are old (48 & 49) they just hate technology and cuss it every chance they get.
But a flip blackberry doesn't sound the slightest bit intriguing to me. The Slider BlackBerry rumor was going to be tough enough to swallow. I wish they would bring a full touch screen device to AT&T (like the storm I suppose).
@SlickyFats I can't believe there isn't a way to lock the TP2. I refuse to believe that. At the very least, there has to be a third-party app, right?
@Ray
I have no clue to be honest about a 3rd party app. I locked the screen on it but as soon as you press any of the physical buttons it disables it and the screen comes on. I would have thought it was a feature they thought of putting into the actual phone, but nope.
@Ray
Just found a free slide2unlock program. I'm going to put it on her phone tonight. Thanks for the idea.
@SlickyFats Still, that seems like a criminal omission. How silly that you need a third-party app for a basic function.
@Ray
Yeah I Googled it to make sure I wasn't just overlooking something and there are forums just overflowing with gripes about "butt dialing" Otherwise it is a very nice phone.