For those of you hoping that RIM could pull off a handset capable of challenging the incredibly slim and futuristic tree-borne Android handsets in the touchphone hardware arena, you’ll have to dream past the Storm 3. From the looks of it, we’ll be getting a fairly minor ” refresh” of the Storm 2, according to our tipster, with upgrades more designed to accommodate BlackBerry 6 than anything. As seen on the the slide, the phone will double the Storm 2′s RAM with 512MB, the camera will be bumped up to 5 megapixels, and the WiFi is being shifted to 802.11n — a spec RIM is already rocking on the Pearl 3G, so not unprecedented. Outside of BlackBerry 6 and that (supposedly) blazing new WebKit browser, we’re probably most enthused about the ” coming soon” 3G mobile hotspot functionality, something that’s made our Android handsets invaluable as of late. We were already hearing the Storm 3 and Curve 3 (another refresh, says our tipster) were holiday possibles for Verizon, and the bottom of this slide points to an ” ___ember” month.
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