RIM's secret BlackBerry roadmap leaked

Unseen Curve Touch outed

Secret slides of future products from Canadian mobile-maker RIM have tipped up on the Internet.

Although many of the BlackBerry models included in the 2011 roadmap have been leaked in recent months - including the next generation Curve (codenamed Sedona) and Bold Touch (codenamed Montana) - the raft of presentation images, many of which are scarily marked 'STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL' reveal a never-before-seen device in the form of the Curve Touch.

Described as 'the accessible all-touch BlackBerry', the Curve Touch seems to be RIM's first smartphone offering without a keyboard of some description, instead it follows the iPhone's lead by relying entirely on touch-screen text input, which should give BlackBerry purists food for thought.

The Curve Touch sports a Qualcomm MSM 8533 CPU running at 800MHz,  according to the slide which also shows a CDMA radio chip, though we're sure a 3G version will be in the pipeline at some date.

Looking not a little like a slightly chubby iPhone 4, the Curve Touch also will also have a 3.25-inch 480x360 HVGA screen, a trackpad and navigation keys and a single 5MP camera with 'HD' video recording.

1GB of flash storage and 512MB of RAM will be complimented by a hot-swap MicroSD slot according to the convincing slides acquired by Crackberry.

Due to hit reality in late 2011, the BlackBerry Curve Touch will also feature a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip which will allow it to be used as a wave-to-pay debit card, which looks like it might be the next big thing in mobile phones.