It’s felt almost as if the BlackBerry smartphone rumor mill has been a bit of too quiet — dare we say burnt out — since the Torch hit the scene (BlackPad notwithstanding, in fact). That’s all changed with a pair of interesting leaks care of Boy Genius Report. Behold a successor to the Bold 9700, the R020. The tri-band UMTS / quad-band EDGE device is gonna disappoint some with an identical 624MHz clockspeed and a pair of.44-inch 480 x 360 screen, but it surely does have twice the RAM (512MB), a 5 megapixel camera with AF and flash, and needless to say runs on BlackBerry 6. If the purported leaked slides are correct, a device of such magnitude ought to be launching inside the October timeframe. Trying to the CDMA side of things — which suggests likely both Verizon and Sprint — we’ve got a 9670 ” Oxford” (at the very least by codename) flip phone with a whole QWERTY keyboard, 5 megapixel camera, 360 x 400 internal display (240 x 320 for the external), usual amenities like WiFi and GPS, and the hip new BB6. No touchscreen on either phones, as far as we will tell, but perhaps that’s a blessing for people that fret smudged screens.
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