Rumor still has it that the BlackBerry Storm ?3? 9570 refresh was cancelled but it is amazing to see how far this device made it. If it is cancelled it was cancelled at the last minute and if it is not (as some rumors suggest) then it is/was pretty close to release. The latest piece of evidence was pointed out to me by DavidH which noticed that Microsoft has compiled a binary of the Bing for BlackBerry app for the BlackBerry 9570 at:
http://static.appserver.m.bing.net/binaries/rim/v1/9570/bing.jad
If you don’t have a BlackBerry 6 device you will get an error that you are missing a universal search module which is required for the application to run meaning it needs BlackBerry 6. I tried it on my BlackBerry Torch 9800 and it worked like a charm. David pointed out that this finding can possibly mean that the device will still launch as Microsoft wouldn’t have made or be hosting this app if it wasn’t planning to support the device. Verizon Wireless and Microsoft are pretty cozy when it comes to putting Bing on their handsets so it would be no wonder that they would be making sure it launches with a Bing client. This build is made for a touch screen and requires OS 6 so there really is no use for it without a BlackBerry 6 powered Storm which is what the 9570 was supposed to be…
What do you think? Could this possibly be a pump fake by Verizon and RIM?
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