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The source of those first pictures of the touchscreen/QWERTY candybar, the BlackBerry Magnum, has released a short video hardware tour. The casing is nearly identical to the Bold 9000, but seeing as this is a preproduction unit with no working OS, we can expect to see some changes before things get officially released. Still, you can see what RIM is trying to do, and how they’ll likely end up phasing out the trackpad/trackball. Arguably, the Magnum will have the best of both worlds – accurate typing with a real keyboard, and easy navigation through a touch display.
The Storm series has been the only BlackBerry family to tackle the treacherous waters of SurePress, a clicking touchscreen technology that’s hit and miss with a lot of users. The Storm had to make quite a few operating system adjustments in order to become finger-friendly, and I’m curious to see how the Magnum does it with reduced screen real estate.
[via The Cellular Guru]
Screencaps after the jump, for when the YouTube video inevitably gets pulled.
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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.
