• The BlackBerry Bold Touch Gets Handled In Its First Hands-On

    Thursday, April 7th, 2011

    Greg Kumparak is the Mobile Editor at Techcrunch. Greg has been writing for the TechCrunch network since May of 2008. Greg was born just outside of San Jose, and now lives in the East Bay of California. → Learn More

    RIM’s doing their damnedest to keep their BlackBerry World announcements a secret, but it just doesn’t seem to be working. Just last week, a photo gallery of their next full touchscreen device (don’t call it a Storm) leaked out. This week, it’s something even more exciting: the BlackBerry Bold Touch got pawed at.

    Combining RIM’s pretty-much-universally loved Bold keyboard with a touchscreen display on top, the Bold Touch is something straight out of any BlackBerry addict’s most private dreams. It is — at least in concept — the best of both worlds. BGR spent a bit of hands-on time with a pre-release unit, and here’s the gist of what he had to say:

    • The keyboard is “great and spacious”
    • The device itself is “extremely solid”
    • The touchscreen is “very responsive”
    • The Bold Touch uses a new battery that RIM hasn’t used before, though there’s no word on what the new capacity is.
    • Global release tentatively scheduled for June/July, with it being announced at BlackBerry World in May

    What do you think: would you carry it? If you’ve strayed from the BlackBerry, is this enough to pull you back in?

    Be sure to check out BGR’s full hands-on gallery over here.

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