Leaked BlackBerry Orlando adds a touchscreen to the Curve form factor

By on Apr 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM
mobile April 8, 2011

RIM is currently prepping two new non-touchscreen additions to its Curve line this year, codenamed the Apollo (GSM) and Sedona (CDMA). On top of that, the company is said to be working on a full touchscreen Curve, appropriately dubbed the Curve Touch. Now, to confuse matters even further, BlackBerry enthusiast blog N4BB reveals an image of what it purports to be the BlackBerry Orlando — which is apparently just like the Apollo and Sedona, but with the addition of a touchscreen. No further details are available, which makes an unveiling of the Orlando in Orlando next month unlikely. Don’t fret though, BlackBerry fans, as we’re sure RIM will have a few other smartphones to show off at BlackBerry World.

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  • http://twitter.com/arkon Eugene Cheung

    “…which makes and unveiling of the Orlando in…”
    I think you mean “an”, not “and”.

    Plus, this could just be a regular Curve in the photo…

  • Anonymous

    What is BlackBerry’s fixation with having a half of a touchscreen and buttons? Do they really love buttons that much?

    • Anonymous

      try one for a while and you will like it too..

    • http://twitter.com/UrbanEnigma Yves

      So your advice is they should just be like everyone else and release only touchscreen slate form factor devices? Their fixation is with giving people choices. Not everyone is in love with the touchscreen interface

    • Tim Conner

      They have a touch screen only and a slider. What’s your point?

    • serpentor

      The screen size of a 3.5″ screen when you have the soft kb or input screen up is 2.41″.

      The new Bold has a 2.8″ screen.

      A touchscreen slider gives you a full hard kb and full size screen.

      Also, if you don’t have kb shortcuts, you aren’t multi tasking.

  • Max

    Gold jacket green jacket who gives a shit.

  • Bob G

    wait………..what’s the difference between the bold and the curve?

    serious question.

    • Anonymous

      “Bold” is spelled B-O-L-D, and “Curve” is spelled C-U-R-V-E.

      • http://twitter.com/UrbanEnigma Yves

        Troll

    • Anonymous

      Bold is an high end Blackberry with better screen res, processor, better keyboard and a fuller OS on the other hand Curve is an entry level Blackberry which is lighter/thinner and doesn’t come with all bells and whistles like open GL, magnetometer etc.

    • Anonymous

      Blackberry Bold Touch 640X480 (2.8 in screen)
      Blackberry Curve Touch 320X480 and different style keyboard (maybe 2.4 like the current bold 9700?)
      Blackberry Touch, no keyboard 800X480 (3.7 in screen)
      Blackberry Torch 2, slider 640X480 (3.2 in screen)

      Looks like there covering all the screen sizes from 2.4 to 3.7in. Plus the Playbook’s 7in.

  • http://twitter.com/ismileo Leandro Pena

    I love my blackberry, but RIM should just focus more attention on less devices. 1 flagship slider, 1 Qwerty/TouchScreen and 1 full touchscreen. none of this curve, bold, torch, storm, curve touch, curve ass, bold ass, torch ass!

    • Anonymous

      it’s not just RIM but sometimes carrier sponsor the effort to make a new phone for them as in case of Storm, Torch and Style.

      • serpentor

        I’d argue Sprint and Style sucks less than the other two.

  • http://twitter.com/UrbanEnigma Yves

    I usually love RIM devices but did they just fire their entire design team?

  • Dragon

    BlackBerry is focusing their née designs on the QNX OS with dual-core processors running on LTE. The OS isn’t ready for phones yet, LTE deployment isnt robust yet, so the market for these devices–while growing–isn’t robust yet. That’s fortunate for BlackBerry actually, because they aren’t ready yet either.

    The other half of the equation is the emerging markets here and around the world. Lower end texting devices, etc. In that realm they are leveraging what is a very good product.

    While they work on their touch-UI, it makes sense to push those advances to the mid-level hardware. That’s what this phone is … an improved experience for a device that in global terms is a mid-level device. When people upgrade it will slide into a low level device, but better than most others in that tier.

    This is a good move, and a nice cheap solution for a corporate device. Adding touch interactivity makes it even better.

  • Anonymous

    Has BB done anything with the software user experience yet on 6.0? I had a Torch and returned it. I couldn’t stand the redundancy of the scrolling groups. I like BB and would consider picking up another but I just found myself constantly scrolling, looking for things and had my head buried in the phone endlessly it seemed.

  • Anonymous

    They have got to be kidding. Just adding lipstick on the pig is not going to help.
    I had been a long time BB user, but they have been stuck in a rut going in circles using up every bit of good will from it’s dedicated base and this is the best they can do to keep everyone from bailing?

    They need to quickly move and dump everyone in charge there and get new minds into that place because at this rate they will be the new Nextel up for auction.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tpthomastt Thomas P Thomas

    Adding touchscreen functionality is not dressing up a pig; rather, it’s adding vital organs to make a pig. I’ve recently started using a company-supplied BB and can’t believe no touchscreen. After nearly a decade using devices with touchscreens, like Palms & HTC devices, this act by BB is just a catch-up move, albeit, their fanboys have been satisfied without such functionality since it’s inception. Whatever!

    • Anonymous

      I kinda agree.
      If they do not act quickly, the only users left are going to be the ones that don’t know better. Kinda like how more than 40% of AOL revenue still comes from selling dial-up Internet service and related subscription products. Sooner or later, the well dries up.

  • http://www.cyber-punk.cz.cc/ ShadowRunner

    Blackberry makers of the most boring smartphones on the market android and Iphone have changed the game, not going to make it just depending on the stuffy old enterprise market.

    • Anonymous

      The thing is, BB’s were the cutting edge amongst phones once. That’s why enterprise and business chose it over other handsets.

  • Guest

    omg this looks like all the other BBs… shut up. touch screen plus the keyboard is perfect. there might not be much use for the touch screen but it’ll definitely help navigating the internet browser a lot better than scrolling on the trackball/pad. can’t wait for the bold touch to come out!

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