Blackberry pics leaked to thunderous applause
Nothing like the Iphone... honest guv
AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE has passed along images of the Blackberry Thunder to blackberrysync, showing off its new OS and media player for the very first time.
This source, which has already sparked controversy on other sites such as Engadget over the authenticity of the images, posted shots of the BlackBerry 9500 and its massive 360x480 touch-screen glass-display apparently running OS 4.7.
The INQUIRER recently spent some time with the soon-to-be-released Bold handset and can confirm that the new OS version 4.6 does look very similar to the one featured in accompanying photos. The phone is said to be Blueberries take on the Iphone and really being its first ever consumer, consumer mobile they’ve kicked into touch. There are even talks of it rocking up with access to a music store akin to the iPhoney iTunes offering, for users to purchase tracks for the device.
We did ask Raspberry at the weekend if content portals are in the works and they just responded with "talks are underway". Seeing as they were most unusually prominently featured at the O2 Wireless Festival in London of late and touting the music and media abilities of their handsets, we’re guessing the tie-ins will be announced sooner rather than later.
Expect it to have a lightening take up; it’s always good to see someone taking to they-who-shall-not-be-named and their already UK sold-out Iphonies. µ
L'Inq
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Comments
Oh Puhleaze
Just because it looks like an iPhone doesn't make it an iPhone. The reason the iPhone is successful in spite of it's bizarre lack of features (none of which I missed as much as I thought I would), high purchase price (but not that much worse than what I paid for my last Treo), overpriced plans (again, not really that much worse than my Treo), and cult-of-Apple creepiness (ok, no excuse for that) is that it's the only smartphone out there whose user interface experience can't be compared to eating a shit sandwich.For all of its plentiful faults, the user interface is an order of magnitude better than anything else out there. A bunch of other manufacturers slapping large glass touch screens and pretty icons on their phones do not make them iPhone clones. When you use the iPhone, it just feels polished. Like the interface was designed by artists and not engineers. I know I'm sounding like one of those Jobs sycophants that I would normally be kicking sand on, but that's just the way it is. When you actually use one of these things for a few weeks, you realize how crappy PalmOS, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and (ultimate evil) Blackberry are. When I have to use a friend's phone or tweak a customer's phone it's like going from an Austin Martin to a Geo Metro.
And don't even get me started on the atrocious excremental experience that is BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Talk about a piece of software that's about as stable as Amy Winehouse after a week-long meth bender (right now). Having built-in ActiveSync or (gasp, choke) Lotus Notes support will be a hell of a lot better than the Rube Goldberg-designed mess that is BES.