First Touchscreen BlackBerry Nowhere Near Ready for Release

Although rumors about the BlackBerry Thunder have been circulating for months, these have been somewhat vague on when this smartphone will be released. According the the latest information, RIM is still a long way away from being ready to introduce its first device with a touchscreen.

An unnamed source has given Boy Genius Report a description of the current state of the Thunder's development. This can be summed up with a single word: bad.


There are supposedly both hardware and software problems. Among the worst of these is very slow response to screen touches. There's a half-second delay when tapping letters on the on-screen keyboard.
Also, there are reportedly problems with this device's accelerometer.

BGR's source said, "Thunder is in no way shape or form market-ready. If Bold was any indication, Thunder won't be ready for at least another 4-5 months."

More about the BlackBerry Thunder

Smartphones with touchscreens are all the rage now, and it appears even RIM isn't going to buck the trend.

According to various leaks and rumors, the BlackBerry Thunder will have a tablet shape with a relatively large screen.

It will supposedly depend almost entirely on its touchscreen for input. There'll be no hardware keyboard, not even a sliding one, nor a trackball. There are, however, a full collection of standard control buttons.

One of the leaked images has the Verizon Wireless logo, which means it will run on CDMA wireless networks, but a wide variety of carriers are likely to eventually offer this model, including ones that use the GSM standard.

Samsung i900 Omnia vs. HTC Touch Diamond... fight!

At this point, neither the HTC Touch Diamond nor the Samsung i900 Omnia need any introduction, but we're happy to announce that these two have stepped into the squared circle and faced off in an epic nine-page battle. Reviewers manhandled both phones for an extended time and broke down the UI, hardware, features and overall usability, so if that sounds like something you'd be interested in, cover your face and head on down to the read link. We're warning you though, it gets ugly.

Big Screen Camera Phone

It used to be that Cameraphones were phones with useless little cams attached to attract consumers, mainly to allow people to send cute pictures by SMS or to support video conferencing, which is still by and large a vapofeature in most phones.

Over the last year or so, the cameras attached to phones have become better and better, until in some models, the phone part is almost an afterthought. “What other feature can we put in our new 9 Megapixel camera, Sir?"" I know, let’s make it a phone too!”

I have a feeling just such a discussion was held when Sharp was designing the 923SH. A new phone coming to Softbank in Japan, the 923SH looks like a camera with a little telephony included. The screen is massive, capable of VGA resolution and can spin to landscape mode for viewing (no word yet if can also change into a large, fighting robot). If you need to take or display a lot of photos or videos with a mobile device, then this may be the ideal phone for you.

Motorola Blaze ZN4

Motorola Blaze ZN4 resembles the MING series in its look, with semi-transparent cover and a large touchscreen below. It is EV-DO Rev. A device with Bluetooth, 2-megapixel camera, Mobile TV and probably full HTML browser. This is the first entry of a touchscreen by verizon’s, and is supposed to do well once it is out in the market.



Motorola Blaze in looks is much like the A1600 and A1800 Ming handsets. While it is closed, the Moto Blaze has simplistic design but when you flip it open it seems to have a pretty large touchscreen display.

The features of Blaze are likely to include built-in GPS, EV-DO Rev A. connectivity for fast data transfer speeds, a 2 Megapixel camera with video recording, mobile TV and Bluetooth. It is also highly likely, that this clamshell will almost surely feature Verizon applications like V CAST Music and V CAST Video.

Agile instant messenger for iPhone

Apple iPhone now has another IM client to help its users stay connected with their friends every time and anytime. Agilemobile announced the launch of its Agile messenger which is a multi-protocol messaging client. The company claims that it’s the most user-friendly and feature rich iPhone messenger yet, it has got enough meat to prove his point too.

Agile messenger lets users to communicate on ICQ, AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk and XMPP networks simultaneously.

Its multimedia prowess lets you send images, video and voice messages from mobile to mobile and mobile to PC. And the best feature has to be the “copy and paste” which lets you to copy a certain block of text and then paste it in the message field.

The online status can be changed with a simple tap on the top of screen while it has a run-in-th-background capability which lets you know the incoming messages with a soiund.

This is perfectly suitable application if you are looking for IM on iPhone it even has easy one-tap icons for setting your online status and messages. Its interface is sleek and easy to work, highly usable.

Agile messenger works on previous version of iPhone which lacked 3G as well as ipod Touch. It’s also compatible with Symbian 60, 80 , 90 and Symbian UIQ alongwith Windows platform.