One of our anonymous sources hit us up with two new pictures of the upcoming BlackBerry Pearl 9105 with its T9 keyboard. As you probably know by now this variant of the upcoming Pearl line will have a regular phone keyboard not a SureType keyboard which is a first for RIM. RIM has also thrown in some new input options to make use of this new keyboard which includes support for:
- Compound words
- Context learning
- Auto word learning
- Using contacts as a data source
- predictive typing (Probably based on T9)
- Including spell check variations of words in predictive typing
Should be interesting to see how RIM pulls this off. Our source let us know that these pictures originally came from the Google Group id-BlackBerry-archive at this link but it seems like that thread was deleted. Kudos to whomever put it out there!
riyan pradiyar Not Registered
Posted: April 19, 2010 at 9:12 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9700
if I’m not wrong id BlackBerry is the largest indonesian BlackBerry mailing list, so it could be true, last time they post real pic of the original bold and onyx before it released in USA
jacobian Not Registered
Posted: April 20, 2010 at 4:13 AM EST
well I am still using my gemini.I prefer qwerty keyboard nowadays.