{"id":5986,"date":"2010-01-21T17:45:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T17:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/new-possibly-touchscreen-blackberry-bold-spotted-blackberry\/"},"modified":"2010-01-21T17:45:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T17:45:26","slug":"new-possibly-touchscreen-blackberry-bold-spotted-blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/new-possibly-touchscreen-blackberry-bold-spotted-blackberry.php","title":{"rendered":"New (Possibly) Touchscreen BlackBerry Bold Spotted [BlackBerry]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d0230_500x_blackberryboldtouchscreen.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">RIM has already been moving away from the trackball to the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5409104\/first-3g-blackberry-pearl-9100-pics-leak\">trackpad<\/a>, but this new image of a yet to be released device shows neither. All signs point to the first <a title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #touchscreenblackberry\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/touchscreenblackberry\/\">touchscreen BlackBerry<\/a> Bold.<\/p><p>There's not much more information available beyond the picture, but it's certainly a relief to see an improvement over <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5436090\/what-the-future-of-touchscreen-blackberrys-nearly-looked-like\">earlier touchscreen prototypes<\/a>. And it's even better to see RIM continuing to innovate, although it's likely months before we see this&mdash;or the final version of it&mdash;in stores. With the BlackBerry Storm having had touchscreen capability for some time, it's only natural to see that technology infiltrate other brands.<\/p><p>But what do all you BlackBerry enthusiasts think? Is this sacrilege, or progress?<\/p><p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/crackberry.com\/first-live-images-blackberry-dakota-emerge\">Crackberry<\/a> is reporting that this is almost definitely an early <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5117980\/leaked-2009-blackberry-roadmap-hints-at-touchscreen-bold-storm-slider\">Magnum<\/a> prototype, which sounds right to me. So expect to see a lot of these design elements sometime this year, though probably not this exact design. [<a href=\"http:\/\/tweetphoto.com\/9196056\">Cell Guru<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/fonefrenzy.com\/2010\/01\/21\/new-blackberry-bold-touchscreen-outs-itself\/\">FoneFrenzy<\/a>]<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=3a28f112e305e1d90417431a252a34be&amp;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/64b9f_img.phdo?s=3a28f112e305e1d90417431a252a34be&amp;p=1\"><\/a><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/64b9f_eus.gif?eui=2226\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=1YZ46eywARo:D9ox_yq4mFo:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/64b9f_full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=1YZ46eywARo:D9ox_yq4mFo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/64b9f_full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=1YZ46eywARo:D9ox_yq4mFo:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/64b9f_full?i=1YZ46eywARo:D9ox_yq4mFo:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=1YZ46eywARo:D9ox_yq4mFo:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/64b9f_full?i=1YZ46eywARo:D9ox_yq4mFo:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/74d69_1YZ46eywARo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIM has already been moving away from the trackball to the trackpad, but this new image of a yet to be released device shows neither. All signs point to the first touchscreen BlackBerry Bold.There's not much more information available beyond &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/new-possibly-touchscreen-blackberry-bold-spotted-blackberry.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}