The Boy Genius Report says that a summer launch for the BlackBerry Thunder may be delayed due to software and hardware design issues, according to a Research in Motion insider.
Yet another iPhone lookalike-not-workalike device, the first touchscreen BlackBerry is described as “in no way shape or form” ready for market debut and has glaring bugs that include an incredibly annoying touchscreen keyboard, a buggy interface, a touchscreen that ripples when touched, and an accelerometer that goes “bonkers” when the device is moved.
The source told BGR that “If Bold was any indication, Thunder won’t be ready for at least another 4-5 months.”
“Most of the people who have handled it thinks it’s a joke,” the source says.
Full article here.
This is a rumor, but, if true, it unsurprisingly sounds as if yet another “iPhone Killer” will be DOA.
From CrackBerry.com:
“Full QWERTY and SureType entry – hold the phone in landscape mode and you can take advantage of a full-qwerty keypad. Use the phone in portrait mode and you can enter data on a SureType keyboard. You will be able to choose/change your screen/keyboard orientation at anytime.”
At least RIM gets the idea of a universal landscape keyboard. It’s been a year and Apple still can’t figure it out.
When are people going to finally realize that, just because both phrases have the words “iPhone” and “kill” in them, that:
“iPhone killer”
and
“iPhone road kill”
are not the same thing?