The New and Improved BlackBerry

Early Word

Updated Apr. 25, 2017 4:58PM EDT / Published Oct. 08, 2008 3:19AM EDT

BlackBerry may be the fogey of smart phones—hell, even John "the Google" McCain uses one—but the company hopes to take it to Apple later this year. Time reports the new BlackBerry Storm will aim to best the iPhone in navigation and confirmation. The biggest innovation is the "click-screen"—the entire display actually depresses like a button, providing a tactile feedback that pure touch-screens, like the iPhone's, do not. Each letter will also light up as you touch it, so you know whether you hit the right key, and BlackBerry has added a cursor that will follow your finger on the screen.

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The New and Improved BlackBerry