The full touch-based BlackBerry Thunder 9500 has been awash in rumors online. Now several official photos have leaked to prove that the Thunder is a real deal and it will boast a spanking new Blackberry Touch UI OS.

If you have accidentally felt that you may be riding the tech wave with your super latest high tech mobile phone, RIM might just be able to prove you wrong. While we are still waiting for an official announcement, meet the BlackBerry Thunder.

The BlackBerry Thunder 9500 will run on a new Blackberry OS that's fully touch-centric and will sport an extra large touchscreen TFT display (it's not really a mere 2.5-incher, sorry folks, our bad!) with 360 x 480 pixels resolution. Most importantly it will be a hybrid device, working in GSM and EV-DO networks supporting EDGE/HSDPA and built-in GPS.

The Blackberry 9500 Thunder Superb Mobile for $190.00-$1203.00.

Blackberry 9500 Thunder Specification:

• 2G Network GSM / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• DisplayType:TFT, 256K colors
• Size:360 x 480 pixels, 2.5 inches
• Ringtones Type:Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3
• Customization:Download
• Vibration:Yes
• Memory:
• Call records10 dialed, 10 received, 10 missed calls
• Card slotmicroSD (TransFlash)
• Data:GPRS,Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
• HSCSD:Yes
• EDGE:Class 12
• 3G:Yes
• Bluetooth:Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
• Infrared Port:No
• USB:Yes, v2.0

Blackberry 9500 Thunder Features:

• Messaging:SMS, MMS, EMS
• Browsers:WAP 2.0/xHTML
• Games:Yes + Java downloadable,
• Battery:StandbyUp to 350 h
• Talk-time:Up to 5 h
• Others:
• Built in GPS receiver
• GPS support
• Java MIDP 2.0
• MP3/ M4A/ AAC/ eAAC/ WMA
• Java MIDP 2.0