First BlackBerry Magnum/Dakota With A Touch Screen And Full Querty Keyboard

BlackBerry Dakota Mobile Review 2011

BlackBerry Magnum/Dakota pictures are making their way around the interwebs. Magnum, and more recently, Dakota, are code names for new BlackBerry devices with a full QWERTY keyboards as well as touch screens. We presume the different code names are for GSM/CDMA variants of the device.

GENERAL

2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
Announced Not officially announced yet
Status Rumored

DISPLAY

Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors
Size 640 x 480 pixels, 2.8 inches
* - QWERTY keyboard
* - Touch-sensitive controls
* - Optical trackpad
* - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off

SOUND

Alert types Vibration, MP3 ringtones
Speakerphone Yes
- 3.5 mm audio jack

MEMORY

Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Yes
Card slot microSD, up to 32GB, buy memory

CAMERA

Primary 5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, LED flash
Features Geo-tagging
Video Yes, 720p
Secondary Yes

FEATURES

OS BlackBerry OS 6.1
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser HTML
Radio
Games Yes + downloadable
Colors Black
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support, BlackBerry Maps
Java Yes, MIDP 2.1

* - BlackBerry maps
* - Digital compass
* - Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
* - MP4/WMV/H.263/H.264 player
* - MP3/eAAC+/WMA player
* - Organizer
* - Voice memo/dial
* - Predictive text input

BATTERY

Standard battery, Li-Ion
Stand-by
Talk time