The RIM employee was probably thinking of that touch screen mockup that someone made a while back.
Everyone knows that was never intended to be passed off as a real device.

Either way, this thread is entertaining.

yea it is entertaining, but...the RIM employee specifically stated that the 9000 series will not look like the pictures floating on the internet, its completley revamped and is due out exclusively to AT&T in either June or July.

By any chance... was the RIM employee riding a unicorn and wearing a pointed hat?

nothing like poisoning the well...huh?
I realize he hasnt posted many times but, 20 people bad mouthing him...bit too much?

He may actually believe what he is saying is true...who knows, we'll just have to wait.

Must be a RIM employee who is kept out of the loop?!? A lot of them are now carrying these devices around. Fact is that there is a few people at least on this forum who have actually seen the 9000 in person, just keeping their mouths closed due to NDA.

just like i said, you can take what i say with a grain of salt, i have recieved this information from a very reliable source, and i dont work for RIM but have been using their devices for a long time....we will have to see what the outcome is

hahahaha
the op is sooo much cooler than you, dude, he TOUCHED it.

No its a Liger!

why/how is this thread not closed?

It's cuz threads like this are made of win.

Yes of course, I just wouldn't expect that here.

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.

OK, I'll give it a shot.

Seen. Touched. Sucks.

Amazing what you can do without verbs.

Um... Technically, all three of those words are verbs.
In your context, 'Sucks' is not used as one... but it certainly could be.

Sometimes people will mask the truth within a untruth, and sometimes new people actually have intel that long time members of a forum do not. I have no sources, and have no intel, but I do have a strong interest in the next BB and that it has 3G. If Scotts11 has reliable info it will prove itself, if not then that too will also show itself. What I don't get is the amount of bashing that goes on here compared to other forums I visit in the tech world. It just amazes me.

I appreciate it ppcmd

Speaking from a person of authority at BGR, while the sort of sentiments you posted are more than welcome and always appreciated, they are also rather short-sighted. Do you really think that everything BG or I write about on BGR comes from personal hands-on knowledge about what's going on? No. We have people who email us all the time about various things within the industry. We have people who tell other people who tell other people who tell us about things, although that string of source leaks tend to be fairly reliable (hence why I vaguely report on some rumors that I normally wouldn't otherwise). Now that doesn't mean everything is sourced from others, as I often have first-hand knowledge about things within this particular niche of the industry (a la BlackBerry Desktop Manager 4.5 screenshots and today's BlackBerry 9000 information).

But I just wanted to clarify that for you.

"Seen and touched the 9000"...sounds like a movie you'd expect to see at a bachelor party.

cliff notes please.

Wasn't that the title of Wilt Chamberlain's biography?

I can't believe I missed this. But this will compete with my other favorite thread for Apr.

So, our Jibi here is the same Jibi from BGR? Just wanted to be sure.

You just figuring that o