14 DAY TRIAL // Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is expected to soon come to the market with some new, highly-appealing handsets, including the already long rumored Storm 3, and a touchscreen-enabler Bold smartphone.
It is all only in the rumor side for the time being, as nothing was announced officially on either of the two handsets, but there are great chances that the phones will actually arrive on shelves in the near future.
The Blackberry Storm 3 handset made it to the headlines quite a few times before, and was expected at one time to arrive on shelves prior to the fourth quarter of the ongoing year, but the device is still unannounced, and it might remains so for a while still.
As for the aforementioned touchscreen-enabled Bold smartphone, it might be a new version of the previously rumored Magnum/Dakota, which never made it to the market.
According to a recent article on CrackBerry, the Blackberry Storm 3 is not to be mistaken for the BlackBerry Storm 2 (9570) refresh spotted into the wild a few months ago.
The BlackBerry Storm 3 sports the codename of Monaco internally, and is a totally different device, though no info on its specs list emerged for the time being.
As for the second Blackberry device rumored today to be on its way to the market in the not too far future, it sports the codename of Montana, and is said to be a re-designed Dakota/Magnum smartphone.
No specifications are available for this device either but, based on what was previously known on its predecessor, we would assume that it sports a touchscreen display and a QWERTY keyboard in a candybar form factor.
Whether this device would share the same fate as the older device, which never passed the prototype state, is still unknown, but we might hear more on it pretty soon.
RIM would not be the first handset vendor to plan a device with these features, as Motorola, Palm and even Nokia already made similar moves into this area (with Pixi, DROID Pro and the recently launched Touch and Type Nokia phones).