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Blackberry Kickstart? A Clamshell Blackberry. Huh?

Posted by Chris Leckness on May 1, 2008 – 9:33 am
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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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  • rhemy
    aneez, that was funny lol.
  • hb
    interesting... maybe it's got mad features lol? mad ugly haha
  • 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...
  • As opposed to going after enterprise users.
  • When you say 'RIM is going after consumers with this one I suspect', I wonder to myself, 'Who else would RIM go after?'
  • 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.
  • DaFD
    I hope to heck that this prototype is to debug the OS and get the designers more used to flip phones.
  • hyedipin
    Way too ugly for a blackberry device. Why would anyone buy it, honestly.. small screen, huge footprint, no qwerty..
  • Noah
    Hrm. It looks kind of cheap, with all the plastic on the lower-half. I hope that isn't the final device design!!
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