Blackberry Bold Touch Dakota - GSM BB combining Bold and Touch, coming end May
The BlackBerry Dakota is rumoured to be launched in late May.
It holds basically the same form factor as the Bold series, but mixes a full QWERTY keyboard with a touchscreen. Besides using a touchscreen, an optical keypad will be available to navigate the screen.
This phone, which is said to be internally known as R005, and nicknamed "Bold Touch" is expected to offer a 2.8-inch capacitive screen with a resolution of 640 x 480 a 5MP camera, equipped with flash, will capture video in 720p, and BlackBerry OS 6.1. Also available are 4GB of internal storage and 768MB of RAM.
A great addition is the 3G mobile hotspot that has been added, not to mention the NFC connectivity. The Wi-Fi N, Bluetooth and MicroUSB port come as no surprise.
In addition, the Dakota is going to ship with the new BlackBerry 6.1. The new version of the BlackBerry platform now supports Magnetometer and Digital compass APIs, OpenGL-ES 2.0, event-base geo-fencing location APIs and much more.
Specifications
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
Tri-band UMTS
5 megapixel camera with HD video recording, flash, and image stabilization
4GB of built in storage, 768MB of RAM
2.8-inch VGA 640 x 480 capacitive screen
WiFi b,g,n on 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies
3G mobile hotspot!
MicroUSB port
Bluetooth
NFC
Magnetometer
Accelerometer
Proximity sensor
10.5mm thin
Launches with BlackBerry OS 6.1
A leaked spec sheet for the BlackBerry Bold Touch Dakota reveals that the phone will be humming with a 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor on board. With a 2.8 inch LCD VGA display and a 35-key QWERTY keyboard, the handset will be another attempt by RIM to compete with the Apple iPhone and Android handsets.
One thing to note is it lists the Dakota’s processor as ‘QC 8655′, which looks to be the Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM 8655. It is great to see that the Dakota will be running on a solid processor for 2011. The Dakota will run on 5GHz WiFi and have 8GB eMMC, which means you may be able to use all the internal memory for app installs.
Sources: phonearena.com, crackberry.com, phonedog.com and BGR.com