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Leaked RIM BlackBerry 9000 photos show derivative Apple iPhone exterior

"Engadget Mobile has some shots of the much-ballyhooed RIM Blackberry 9000 'in the wild,'" SteveJack reports over in our Opinion section.

"Uh oh, RIM shareholders. If this is all RIM's got, you guys and gals might want to quickly add "former" ahead of that suddenly scary description of one of your portfolio positions, as it's now painfully obvious that RIM has learned nothing in the past 15 or so months since Apple unveiled the iPhone," SteveJack writes.

"It's the same old, same old in an iPhone-inspired wrapper. And that should fail to inspire much confidence in RIM," SteveJack writes.

Read the full article over in our Opinion section, along with the opportunity to provide reader feedback, here.

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