• True iPhone killer: the BlackBerry Terminator

    Devin Coldewey

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    Wednesday, October 1st, 2008


    “Put down your iPhone. You have 20 seconds to comply.”
    “I think you’d better do as he says, Mr. Jobs.”
    “You now have 15 seconds to comply.”

    Yeah I know that’s from Robocop, not Terminator, but the latest BlackBerry device, the Terminator, looks more like ED-209 than a hunter-killer. It’s got all the usual stuff — infra-red vision, dual low-caliber guns, video recording, 3.5G. The keyboard looks a little awkward to operate when it’s in combat mode, but I think RIM probably knows what they’re doing. It’s strictly AT&T of course, but I don’t know if it’s quite deadly enough to switch carriers.
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