Blackberry Thunder - the biggest threat to the iPhone

There have been rumours been floating about the internet about an upcoming device in the Blackberry range of mobile phones... and according to those rumours, it will be a full-on, full-touchscreen Blackberry phone, fusing the raw power of that range with the sexy looks of, dare I say it, the iPhone. It's not unreasonable to say, that the new Blackberry Thunder is the phone that Apple should be really scared of!
Blackberry - how emails became sexy
The name 'Blackberry' has only really come to the fore in the world of mobile phones in the last few years, due to something weird happening. To anyone who can remember the original Blackberry mobile phones, cast your mind back to what they used to be like. Big ol' devices with QWERTY keyboards, not particularly great menus and screens, but fabulous for email. It's just that they weren't much cop for anything else. But the simple fact was, they didn't need to be, because for their target market (people who had to have emails on the move, or, to put it another way, business people), there was absolutely no device that could do what the Blackberry could do. It took off in the business market in a huge way, turning into the best (and for a long time, the only) email device in that arena.
It was about that time that something unexpected happened. Blackberry mobile phones started to be cool. It ceased to be just a business device, and it began to be bought by the general public, by groovy people out in the real world. There are probably a good few factors why that went on, but there are two factors, that I reckon had the most effect. With the first one, I just need to use one word: Pearl. The Blackberry Pearl range of mobile phones has taken what were bog-standard email devices and made them into truly desirable, high-spec smartphones. They look gorgeous, they're packed with features, and, perhaps crucially, they come in a range of colours, including BRIGHT pink. And why's that important?
Well, that's because of the OTHER reason why Blackberry mobile phones have become the amazing consumer devices they have. And it's a TV programme, Sex And The City, the programme where they ALL had Blackberrys. You could almost sense the thought processes happening; if it's cool enough for Charlotte, then it's cool enough for me, ooh, check it out, I can get it in pink, too, that's LUUUUURVLY...
A Sound Of Thunder - the Blackberry goes all touchscreen-y
So, what does the future have in store for the Blackberry? Well, if anything, their big push into the consumer world has only just begun!
There are two mobile phones due in the not too distant future, that will further ram home the idea of Blackberry making ace devices for normal people, not just business people. First up is the Blackberry Bold 9000, which looks to be a new evolution of the 8xxx Curve range of devices, only with a MUCH sexier body, a brand new interface, and with the cool factor taken to whole new levels. But, even then, it's not the BIG one. That honour lies with the soon to be announced Blackberry Thunder, a full touchscreen device made around the patented Blackberry awesomeness, but clearly designed to beat one target. There can be little doubt; with that huge touchscreen, and these fruitily-named mobile phones becoming the definitive cool devices, it's out to fight and beat the iPhone. Based on what I've seen and heard this far about the Thunder... this is the one Apple are going to have the hardest time beating!

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