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Your remember the slightly more angular successor to the Bold, the BlackBerry 9020 Onyx, right? Well, rumour has it the Onyx will follow the Curve/Gemini 8520‘s footsteps and will be rocking a touch-sensitive pad in favour of the old-school trackball. Odds are this will be a change we’ll start seeing in most BlackBerrys as RIM tries to close the OS gap between touch-sensitive devices like the Storm and their trackball-bearing cousins. Functionally, I hope a touchpad would make navigating a little more organic rather than just be a glorified 4-way directional pad, but something tells me we won’t see many significant that actually take advantage of touch.
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
