Comments on: Blackberry Thunder touch screen photos

Even this new Blackberry seems unlikely to challenge the iPhone.

[geolemon]

I'm VERY surprised to even see a BB that looks like this - BB CEO stated up, down, forward and backward that having a real, QWERTY keyboard was one of their core competitive advantages, and that their customer studies confirmed that.
I believe [in response to the inevitable iPhone comparison question in the interview] that he even directly criticized the lack of tactile feedback from a touch screen.
Is this really real? It's not April 1st...

[Tinman52]

I don't know if that's the case. I think the Dare's virtual keyboard works great.

[breedin_hips]

Very excited to finally see Blackberry stepping outside their comfort zone!

[Precifijo]

It would have been soooo Nice if the BlackBerry Bold's screen had touch capability. Picture that.. a full qwerty keyboard, a trackball and a touch screen... wouldn't that have been nice??

I have an ipod touch for multimedia specifically so I could keep my Blackberry as my communication device and the primary reason was the full QWERTY keyboard. Typing on a touchscreen is far less accurate and efficient. Hopefully this is a positioning thing for one model only.