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The never-ending series of leaks regarding RIM’s BlackBerry London continues, with a new tech spec sheet supposedly giving us a detailed look at what’ll be powering the high-end forthcoming BB10-powered smartphone.
RIM is said to have three L-series BB10 models planned for 2013, the London, Lisbon, and Laguna. The London’s the most interesting for us lot, as that one appears to be the GSM unit designed for sale in regions like the UK where 4G is still a distant dream.
The spec sheet claims the BB10 London has a 4.2″ display running at 1280×768 resolution, with an 8-Megapixel camera, microSD card support, something RIM is calling “Face Detect” and your usual Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and DLNA connectivity options. It’ll be powered by a Texas Instruments OMAP4 processor, which is all well and good, but in a phone launching in 2013 that might struggle to impress those after a properly cutting-edge piece of hardware.
There’s bad news for those hoping for some 4G action on the next BlackBerry too, as the BB London currently lacks LTE compatibility. If the leaks are to be in any way believed, of course. [Rapid Berry]
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Having had the blackberry storm what seems like a long time ago, i do have a soft spot for blackberry’s
The storm wasn’t particularly good, except for that clickable screen, i loved that
never liked the blackberry’s with the tiny keypads as i have fat fingers.
I thik its a shame if they die, but i do think its to0 little too late.
am not sure what market they are aiming for, lots of businesses are using iPhones now which was a big sector for RIM.
I had the storm 2 and while in theory the pivoted touch screen was a good idea, it turned out to be quite off the mark for accuracy (all 3 of them, 2 of them had “accidents”). I really wanted to love my BB but the screen matched with it being dropped support wise almost immediately would put me off buying a BB again permanently. Shame though, is a cool looking phone
Looks like a half-decent handset. Shame about the OS.
Can i put Cyanogenmod on it?
I think it’s a really nice looking phone, maybe a touch dated though. If the silver parts are metal and not some cheap imitation plastic, then I’m very impressed. I wish there was a Android handset that was on par with Apple for build quality and materials. It would certainly make me consider jumping ship (premium build and Jelly Bean!).
I quite like the look of this thing. I wonder whether it’ll actually be worth buying though? I doubt it, somehow.
If DeLorean made phones….
Will it blend? That is the question.
I sill they’re still bent on ripping off Palm/HP’s implementation of a cards based interface.
Imitation is the highest form of flattery I guess…
see*, I mean SEE***. Quite how or why I typed sill is beyond me!
Android’s task switcher is a lot like Palm’s card interface as well, but at least the same guy was involved in developing both of those interfaces.
I think you mashed 2nd word ‘see’ and 4th word ‘still’ together there, and got ‘sill’.
I do this all the time. I think it’s because the brain is formulating the sentence a few words ahead of what the fingers are typing, and sometimes I’ll mix them up without realising.
Indeed, that would explain it. I quite like Android’s task switcher, so it doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me that it was made by the same guy.
I’m thinking of shafting my Pre 2 before the year’s out, it’s starting to show its age. Perhaps a HTC 8S…
TI has pulled out of the mobile chip business catch up with the times…ugh….. Well here are the specs since the writer has no clue on how to do research before post dribble on the net..
Verizon spec leak on BB10
BB10 phone will be powered by a 1.5-1.7ghz dual core Qualcomm S4 Snapdragon MSM8960 with 1GB of RAM. Onboard storage will be 16GB and there’ll be MicroSD capability.
Imaging is taken care of by an 8-megapixel, 1080p video capable primary camera with flash but there’s also a 2-megapixel front-facer for video calls.
The capacitive display will be 4.2-inches with a 1280×768 pixel resolution, a 15:9 aspect ratio and a pixel density of 355 pixels-per-inch (ppi).
Meanwhile, connectivity includes 4G LTE, 3G and CDMA, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi Hotspot, MicroUSB, DLNA, Bluetooth, Micro HMDI, GPS and NFC.
The whole package will be run from an 1800mAh removable battery pack.
The specs are well above the newest phones that are releasing this fall.. It beats the iphone 5 clearly and most androids, over all the hard ward is a good starting point.
If you’re going to write something about RIM and Blackberry you better make sure its accurate first! That picture of the new phone is wrong, the specs are a bit off and that is not how the new OS is going to look.