Apparently the Curve Touch isn’t the only BlackBerry coming to T-Mobile this summer; rumour has it the higher-end Touch 9860 (code-named Monza) will also be coming to T-Mobile, specifically on June 29. One other BlackBerry is planned for the carrier over the summer, and considering RIM’s upcoming lineup, there are plenty of options, but the Bold Touch 9810 is a likely candidate.
The Touch 9860 “Monza” will have the highest-resolution screen in a BlackBerry today, according to the early specs. It’ll have a 3.7-inch 800 x 480 display, 5 megapixel camera with 720p video recording, 1.2 GHz processor, 768 MB of RAM, and 4 GB of internal storage. The big stars of the device will be a near-field communications chip, which will most commonly be used for tap-and-go payments, and the magnetic compass, which will enable augmented reality applications.
The big BlackBerry World show is coming up fast, and we’re expecting at least the Bold Touch to get announced, but it would be hard to imagine carriers not making their own BlackBerry announcements shortly thereafter, considering summer is right around the corner. The next breed of RIM handsets are mostly iterative and simply keeping pace with specs, but the push for NFC is more aggressive than we’ve seen from any other manufacturer, and as a result, I suspect RIM will be early in forming partnerships with banks and other financial institutions to actually make use of it all.
[via TMoNews]