True iPhone killer: the BlackBerry Terminator

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

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“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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