The iPhone and its 3G-toting successor aren't the only all-touchscreen offerings for smartphone fans. There's no rule saying that anyone wanting an attractive touchscreen smartphone have to buy it from Apple (but capacitance multi-touch sure does make the decision hard to avoid). RIM, makers of the BlackBerry smartphone lineup, has their own iPhone-fighting handset bearing a [...]

Rumors, being what they are, should be taken with a grain of salt. That said, the newest rumor to leak out of Waterloo indicates that RIM is brewing up a serious all-touchscreen contender to the iPhone. The rumored handset, known as the RIM BlackBerry 9500 "Thunder" is said to release as a Verizon Wireless/Vodafone exclusive [...]

Codenamed "AK" (for Apple Killer), the BlackBerry maker from Canada is reported to be developing a super-secret competitor to the iPhone. While the BlackBerry 9000 made waves recently with a launch delay, certain speculation hinting that the BlackBerry 9000 would be equipped with a touchscreen has fallen through. But, that doesn't mean that RIM isn't working [...]