It looks like the first RIM BBX phone may probably shrug off the ‘London’ moniker and opt to emerge as the BlackBerry Surfboard. The news may not come from an official source, but speculations on this front have been riding the web for quite some time now.
The last we reported on this tidbit, a sneaky shot of the forthcoming BlackBerry London phone had floated out into the open. And it’s very hard to imagine such rumors to be the work of playful imaginations when an actual picture surfaces. The photo shows a chic touchscreen device stamped by the BlackBerry logo on the base.
The overall design appears to disagree with the aesthetics of RIM offerings which have been moving through the production lines so far. It’s not just the hardware that may beg to differ, but the software too. Speculations abound that the Surfboard, or the London, could boast of being the first ever BBX OS based smartphone from the company.
TechCrunch has a post citing that RIM filed for the ‘BlackBerry Surfboard’ trademark in the Canadian Intellectual Property Office way back in July 2010. Though the manufacturer is expected to have dropped the idea of naming any product as such, they may have picked it up again and could actually be toying with it currently.
That’s because the company is stated to have filed for an extension of time in May of this year. What’s more, RIM could have also been considering the ‘Surfbook’ name for their PlayBook if another trademark filed in 2010 is anything to go by.
Are we the only ones dismissing BlackBerry Surfboard as one of the least catchy names tech world has been unfortunate enough to stumble upon?