A recent interview with Verizon Chief Marketing Officer Marni Walden provides some information on what the future holds for BlackBerry devices at Verizon Wireless. This interview confirms the upcoming arrival of three new RIM devices with the carrier later in the year.

For a while it seemed Big Red was relying heavily on RIM for it’s Blackberry devices, especially with the beginning of the Blackberry “Touch” and “Storm” series. However, since then things have gone quiet on the Blackberry front with the carrier, as they moved their focus almost entirely toward Android and the iPhone. But with this latest news, it seems they may be rekindling their partnership a bit.

The BGR interviewed Verizon Wireless CMO Marni Walden about these new devices and what she had to say was quite interesting. Much of their discussion was focused on 4G, Android, iPhone, and Windows 7,however they did eventually make their way into discussing Blackberry devices coming this year. Marni pretty well confirmed the launch of 3 new Blackberry devices this year.

Walden said, “RIM is still very, very important in the enterprise space. It does resonate in some of the consumer space as well, particularly with BBM. We’ll have three devices this year that we will bring to market with RIM. We’ll continue our partnership and it’ll be important for now going forward.”

Will one of them be a 4G LTE PlayBook?
Is there a CDMA Torch 2 coming to VZW?
The BlackBerry Bold 9930 is likely to be one of them.
What are your thoughts on the other two?
Hit up the full interview at BGR and let us know what you think.

source: BGR

We’ve all heard rumors that the Storm3 has been cancelled, but from the looks of it, it seems that the phone is alive. The Blackberry Storm3 has been caught in Best Buy’s Mobile Genie – a system used to transfer contacts from old to new phones. Now this doesn’t prove that the phone is soon to be released or released at all for that matter. Just take it for what it is, hope for all you dedicated Storm fans.

The Storm 3 was rumored to be released with the new Blackberry OS 6 and follow in the footsteps of its predecessor with the Sure Press touch screen.  The Blackberry 9570 also has a 5MP camera, 512mb RAM and most likely 624Mhz processor.

Source: crackberry.com, engadget.com