{"id":210128,"date":"2010-01-21T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/20015ad3687ee8e121ca7420695e71f2"},"modified":"2010-01-21T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T18:45:00","slug":"article-blackberry-touchscreen-prototype-spotted-offers-qwerty-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/210128","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: BlackBerry touchscreen prototype spotted, offers QWERTY keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/1\/91899-x2_8c4f76.jpg\" alt=\"BlackBerry Magnum\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a BlackBerry fan, you&#8217;re probably familiar with the rumors and rumblings over the years about a touchscreen, QWERTY-equipped device.&nbsp; Previously known as the &#8220;Magnum,&#8221; intel over the past few months has uncovered a codename shift to &#8220;Dakota.&#8221;&nbsp; The pictures seen here, taken by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/cellguru\" ><em>The Cellular Guru<\/em><\/a> and posted on the internet today, appear to show some sort of BlackBerry prototype.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not entirely sure if the device is a Magnum or Dakota prototype, and since there&#8217;s no OS screenshot, it&#8217;s difficult to make an assumption as to what model it is.&nbsp; What&#8217;s more, this could be an older prototype that was scrapped &#8211; a theory that I would actually side with, given the older design in comparison to today&#8217;s models.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let the speculation begin!&nbsp; How do you feel about a touchscreen and QWERTY combo?&nbsp; Personally, I&#8217;ve never been a fan of the design.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve always disliked devices that offer both, as I feel like you&#8217;re splitting your time between typing on the keyboard and navigating on the touchscreen (hence a continuous up\/down motion, all day long).&nbsp; What about you?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/crackberry.com\/first-live-images-blackberry-dakota-emerge\" >CrackBerry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/1\/91899-x2_8c5218.jpg\" alt=\"BlackBerry Magnum\" width=\"422\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pUqA4w1STmJFbaa9uwLlOjiy5pY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pUqA4w1STmJFbaa9uwLlOjiy5pY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pUqA4w1STmJFbaa9uwLlOjiy5pY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pUqA4w1STmJFbaa9uwLlOjiy5pY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/nN_rdDpM4-g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a BlackBerry fan, you&#8217;re probably familiar with the rumors and rumblings over the years about a touchscreen, QWERTY-equipped device.&nbsp; Previously known as the &#8220;Magnum,&#8221; intel over the past few months has uncovered a codename shift to &#8220;Dakota.&#8221;&nbsp; The pictures seen here, taken by The Cellular Guru and posted on the internet today, appear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}