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Are you one of those people out there who prefer to wait RIM’s Blackberry Thunder to 3G iPhone? Hmmm, I hope you are. Surrounding by the hype of 3G iPhone price plan announcement and Apple store line up, somebody from Blackberry Syncs (they’re cool, cause we used to get such information like this from BGR) hit most of major mobile blogosphere with such a cool pictures of this RIM’s first touch screen device ever. Ugghhh look at this Apple, jealousy …. never!

Below are the quick specs of this Blackberry 9500 or Thunder via BGR.

It is a full touch screen BlackBerry — no slide out keyboard — with only 4 physical keys. Those are the send / end phone keys, the BlackBerry menu key, and the back key. Here is the most interesting part, though: it will launch as a worldwide lifetime exclusive on Verizon and Vodafone! We’ve heard the unit will be a hybrid device with CDMA EV-DO Rev. C (for clarification, Rev C., known as UMB is practically dead. If the device will indeed launch with a 4G solution, our bet is on LTE), and GSM HSPA for traveling internationally. Verizon and Vodafone will have the same unit. Currently, the model number is the BlackBerry 9500, though it’s very early and that’s likely to change. This is HUGE for the Verizon lovers. For once they’ll get an exclusive device, but Verizon will have a sales quota for the device and if they don’t meet those numbers, we’ve heard the exclusivity will then dissolve and it’s over. This will be extremely interesting to see play out.

And an update information of OS and screen resolution from Blackberry Sync.

BlackBerry Thunder will launch with OS 4.7

It will sport a 360×480 resolution, which makes it slightly bigger than the iPhone

Note:

Don’t trust anybody till the September comes. That’s the month where RIM is planning to launch this iPhone contender. See you till September by then.

Source: Blackberry Sync

Image courtesy of Blackberry Sync