Crackberry has some new details on the up and comming Blackberry Thunder touch screen phone keyboard.

• Localized Haptic Technology - when you press on the Thunder’s screen, it pushes in “just” a little bit (the whole screen is sort of like a big button) and you get immediate “real” feedback – you hear an audible clickety sound, and can feel a buzz in your finger where you actually pressed on the display.
• Full QWERTY and SureType entry – hold the phone in landscape mode and you can take advantage of a full-qwerty keypad. Use the phone in portrait mode and you can enter data on a SureType keyboard. You will be able to choose/change your screen/keyboard orientation at anytime.
• “Amazing Implementation!” – Apparently typing on the Thunder is a “really easy and enjoyable experience.” It’s an overstatement to call the Thunder an iPhone killer at this point, but it is safe to say when it comes to entering text the Thunder’s keyboard makes the iPhone’s keyboard look like a chump. RIM always criticized Apple for putting out a virtual keyboard that was “unusable.” It seems RIM is going to show Apple how it’s done… How Do Ya Like Them Apples?

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