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Blackberry 8100 takes aim at consumer market

Long known as the tether that keeps businesspeople tied to their offices, the RIM Blackberry has become an essential part of business around the world. Not content with just keeping people in suits addicted to their products, RIM appears to be looking to go after the regular consumer market with a new, thinner version of their popular smartphone. The upcoming Blackberry 8100 will come loaded with consumer-friendly features such as a digital camera and a music player, with memory expandable via a mini-SD slot. The 8100 will ditch the space-eating QWERTY keyboard that comes on its current models in exchange for a SureType thumb keyboard, enabling the phone to take on a narrower shape. [Read]