RIM says that it has solved the problems that held back the first phone and has upgraded the touch screen which was one of the biggest drawbacks.

Analysts have speculated that it has been harder for other companies to create reliable and intuitive touch screen technologies due to the patents held by Apple for the iTouch/iPhone.

RIM have labelled their technology “SurePress” which requires an actual push rather than a touch to get the phone to respond to certain tasks.  The first version of it was a train crash, so hopefully things will have improved, but then for people like me with fat hands, we’ll wait and see!

There are plenty of other changes which a too numerous to list, but one other key alteration is the keys on the side of the device which have been upgraded, the previous phone’s keys had a tendency to fall off!

I’ll be interested to have a little play around with this phone.  BlackBerry appear to have fallen behind with their devices recently and with competition such as the iPhone and the new Android phones, they need to up their game.  Perhaps they have with this phone?