You can consider our minds completely and utterly blown tonight, as we've just stumbled upon these photos of what appears to be a new BlackBerry device... a vertical slider. The source (BlackBerry Leaks) doesn't seem to be able to confirm the legitimacy of the photos, but we're mostly convinced that this is some variation of a RIM device. While BB Leaks Slider Phone Cover for BlackBerry Curve 8300, 8310, 8320, 8330 Green Protector Case
speculates on the possibility of this being the Storm 3, Kevin Michaluk over at CrackBerry suggests this might not be a phone headed to market, rather a prototype concept which has been scrapped, similar to the Magnum handset that floated onto the internet recently. What we can say, however, is that this device coupled with those new BIS 3.0 Gmail integration upgrades, that forthcoming RIM WebKit browser, and that rumored new OS would help push this into the territory of that dream smartphone we pleaded for back in 2008. Coincidence? We think not.www.engadget.com
