You can take our minds completely and totally blown tonight, as we have encountered these photos of what appears to be a new BlackBerry device ... a vertical slider. The source (BlackBerry leakage) does not seem able to confirm the legitimacy of the photos, but mostly we are convinced that this is a variation on a RIM device. BB Leaks While speculation about the possibility that the storm is 3, Kevin Michaluk over at BlackBerry suggests that this can not be a device to market, rather, a first version has been scrapped, similar to the Magnum floating phone on the internet recently (although Kevin suggests that our friends in Canada may well have plans for something in this form factor). What we can safely say, however, is that this device, along with the new BIS 3.0 upgrades integration of Gmail, so the next RIM WebKit browser, operating system and a new rumor to help push things in the territory of that dream that was declared back in 2008 smartphone. Coincidence? We think not.

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