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Blackberry Kickstart? A Clamshell Blackberry. Huh?

Posted by Chris Leckness on May 01, 2008

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Weird. While I am trying out the Blackberry scene for the 1st time right now, I am looking towards some of the full qwerty Blackberries rather than another limited keypad version and then all of a sudden, BGR breaks some BIG news about a little Blackberry.

We’ve been holding this info for a while now trying to confirm it, but no more! We have here pictures of a new BlackBerry device. It is a BlackBerry clamshell — a flip phone and codenamed the Kickstart! Let me repeat this. This isn’t fake, this isn’t a hoax. We’ve known RIM is planning to launch a flip phone within the year, and we now have the pictures to prove it!

BlackBerryKickstart

This is quite interesting though. RIM is going after consumers with this one I suspect. The photo that BGR has thrown out there shows a similar text entry, trackball, and nav buttons to the Pearl I am using right now.

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    • Noah

      Hrm. It looks kind of cheap, with all the plastic on the lower-half. I hope that isn’t the final device design!!

    • hyedipin

      Way too ugly for a blackberry device. Why would anyone buy it, honestly.. small screen, huge footprint, no qwerty..

    • DaFD

      I hope to heck that this prototype is to debug the OS and get the designers more used to flip phones.

    • Tonto

      @hyedipin

      If you look at the picture you will see that is does have a qwerty keypad.

      That is a very ugly phone, needs a bigger screen and a metal body.
      No-one even makes flips anymore, sliding is the fashion.
      Blackberry should stick to smartphones, that flip will not make them many new friends.

    • http://aneezkanji.blogspot.com Aneez

      When you say ‘RIM is going after consumers with this one I suspect’, I wonder to myself, ‘Who else would RIM go after?’

    • http://www.mobilitysite.com Chris Leckness

      As opposed to going after enterprise users.

    • htaft

      *#$! the fashion, if you ever had a kyo 7135 you would also still be waiting for someone to finally make a clam again. that might actually make me consider going crackberry…

    • hb

      interesting… maybe it’s got mad features lol? mad ugly haha

    • rhemy

      aneez, that was funny lol.

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