The new Blackberry 9670 is the latest smartphone launched by RIM, and has given this handset quite an appealing and innovative look. This impressive device has been launched in the form of Clamshell, and thus has broken the record of the Candybar shape of Blackberry phones.

The new flip phone, Blackberry 9670, features the OS 6.0 of Blackberry, which is the latest that Blackberry has to offer. Besides the large flip-up screen, this handset has an accompanying big display screen on the front of the phone, thus providing the facility of a touchscreen in the exterior, and also facilitating the possibility of navigation among media and easy mail transfer.

With a 5 mega-pixel camera supporting autofocus and flash, the Blackberry 9670 handset features a full QWERTY keypad, an internal display of 480 x 360 pixels resolution, and an optical pad. Thus, if you are passionate about photography, then this shall fulfil your desires in this field. The photos from TheCellularGuru do provide a clear view of this latest smartphone.

The Blackberry 9670 phone also comes incorporated with HTML browser, Push mail, e-mail, SMS, MMS, downloadable and existing games, document editor, video player supporting DivX/ WMV/ XviD/ 3gp, media player supporting MP3/ WMA/ AAC+, that is, all the basic and necessary features expected out of a handset. Built-in features like multi-touch and pinch-to-zoom make this phone unique in the league of smartphones.

In the matters of connectivity, the Blackberry 9670 provides provision for Wi-Fi support of 802.11n, GPS and A-GPS, with fully operational Blackberry maps. Featured with a 512 MB of internal memory (RAM), this device provides for Micro SD internal storage slot, a 4 GB of internal storage, Bluetooth and a micro USB port. The handset is subsumed in metallic casing and provides a classy look and feel.

The recent video leak of this handset, which does reveal the hardware and the software specifications of the device, discloses the feature of the universal search, which shall enable the user to search by typing on the home-screen directly, without the need to click on the search button. To watch the video of the first look at the Blackberry 9670, click here.

The device is said to be of the CDMA league, thus it is mostly thought of being carried by Sprint or Verizon, among the major carriers. The other potential carriers may be the Bell and Telus, and to find the answer to the carrier, we just might have to wait a little longer! Some of the recent reports do suggest of the custom build of the phone for the Verizon and the Vodafone, and the other details of the price tag and availability are yet to come to surface.

But this is not the end of features of this handset, and apart from this leaked information about the handset, still more amazing attributes are remaining to come, and the only way is to wait for the same. So, till then, if you are a Blackberry fan, then keep a lookout of the latest updates of this handset!!

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