BlackBerry Onyx To Loses Trackball, Gains Trackpad
The leaked-to-all-hell BlackBerry Onyx may have undergone one last change before manufacture: judging by this shot nabbed by BlackBerry Underground, it’ll also have a Curve 8520-esque optical trackpad.
This feature has been a persistent rumour since the original Onyx shots hit the web, though the fact that it contradicted the actual photos of the device didn’t do much to convince us of its credibility.
In the context of early reactions to the Onyx leak, this apparent late change makes a lot of sense: the handset was characterized as a best-of-all-worlds device, keeping all the best features of non-touch BlackBerrys without sacrificing compactness. Grabbing the optical trackpad from the 8520, then, is an obvious move. [BlackBerry Underground via BGR]
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A few months back i attended a Blackberry Training Workshop. There i met a programmer who described this ‘trackpad’ to myself in front of the blackberry employees. To their astonishment and how the guy got his hands on such device they cheekily denied knowing of this ‘trackpad’ and then took him aside telling him to be quiet.
Although i never saw the trackpad first hand. Comparing the photos above with what i was informed about seem to go hand in hand.