More leaks: BlackBerry Touch (Monaco) and BlackBerry Bold Touch (Dakota) TV Commercials Leaked

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Thursday, April 14th, 2011

With the seemingly endless series of leaks that have been going on for the past few weeks, there’s really not much we don’t know* about RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry handsets. Photos? Leaked. Videos? leaked. Specs? Leaked.

Now to round things out, even the TV commercials for two of the devices (the full-screen Touch and the hybrid touch/keyboard Bold Touch) have leaked. A heads up, before you click through: these commercials kind of suck.

Both commercials were conjured up by N4BB.

BlackBerry Touch Commercial:

BlackBerry Bold Touch Commercial:

30 seconds of icons floating around a cityscape followed by a nigh-instant glance of the device? Guh. These commercials could be for pretty much any phone on the planet. Vagueness and ambiguity has been tried before, RIM — it doesn’t work in the phone world.


* Well, we don’t know what they smell like, but it’s probably safe to assume the answer to that is “like plastic.”

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