Blackberry Dakota to have touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard
Some details about the BlackBerry Dakota, an upcoming smartphone from Research in Motion, have emerged on Boy Genius Report. The still-keyboarded BlackBerry appears to be an evolution of the BlackBerry Bold, and will have a capacitive touchscreen along with bumps in memory and storage.
The phone will be the first BlackBerry to have both a full physical QWERTY keyboard and a 2.8 inch VGA capacitive touchscreen sharing real estate on its front face. Among other things, this will be a relief for those of us who, when borrowing our friends’ BlackBerries, ignore the buttons and uselessly jab at the screen with our fingers.
The Dakota will pack 768MB of RAM and 4GB of storage in its 0.4-inch thick body, along with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and mobile hotspot support. It will run BlackBerry OS 6.1 and work on both quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as 3G networks (no mention of 4G) and has a magnetometer, acclerometer, and proximity sensor.