BoyGeniusReport reported that RIM is going to launch in Q3 this year the first ever touchscreen Blackberry smartphone, codenamed Thunder. Comes with no physical keyboard, the Thunder has only 4 keys. The new touchscreen BlackBerry handset called 9500 Thunder coming to Verizon and Vodafone as an exclusive device.

They claim it will be feature four physical keys (send, end, menu, and back), sport a hybrid CDMA EV-DO Rev. C / GSM HSPA radio, and could include a 4G LTE component.

P.S. The device you see in the pic is actually a mock up created by people over at BGR.