RIM Engineers call touchscreen Blackberry “Apple Killer”

The RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis doesn’t like touchscreens, he personally has never been able to type on it and reports that none of his friends were able to type on them either.  But that  doesn’t seem to be stopping RIM from designing a new BlackBerry with just that, a Touchscreen model.  The Blackberry 9000 is dubbed to come out later on this summer and has been called the “Apple Killer” or A.K. for short.  Hopefully the CEO’s hatred for Touchscreen’s will push their engineers to revolutionize this industry, although I won’t be holding my breath, at least not for the short term.  As with most new model’s they seem to carry extra overhead baggage such as glitches and incompatibility issues.  But as we have seen with the iPhone & iPod it usually takes a couple of generations before they get all of the kinks out.  Gizmodo reports.