Sheesh

but... how is that imitation? it looks just like a polished up blackberry curve, not like an iphone...

@Kevin-

At first glance, I'd agree with you, but if you just look at the overall size, shape, and colors of the new crackberry, it looks strikingly like an iPhone with a hard keyboard.

Both are black with silver back, both have rounded corners with silver looking trim.

Try this...hold your iPhone up close to the picture of the crackberry with the camera turned on...center the frame so that the keyboard and flower screen are all that you'll get a picture of.  Take the picture, go to the camera roll, view that picture.  Now hold up your iPhone next to the crackberry in this article, almost identical twins.

There's no doubt in my mind that the crackberry was influenced by the iPhone's design and form, even if it's keyboard makes it a not exact clone.

Urgh! Still ugly as hell.

Try again, RIM. I hold my iPhone, I look at that photo, and I sigh.

Making some thing look like an iPhone is a stupid idea and only goes to show you its a "me too" product. Apple will continue to innovate and provide products people actually love to use not forced to use.

Apple has done in one year what Rim has been trying to do for years. In one year Apple has turned the Blackberry a legacy product and technology.

Don't get me wrong I am not saying the iPhone is perfect but as a mobile platform that can evolve it kicks these guys in the teeth.

This has to be an April Fools' joke. There's no way a business could seriously release something that ugly on the world without a disclaimer to warn parents to shield the childrens' eyes.

the blackberry on the right hand side with the purple background looks like it is running on the google android OS