BlackBerry will introduce a new smartphone on August 3

The Canadian company RIM will present on Aug. 3 new BlackBerry 9800 smartphone. About this citing an anonymous source close to the company.

The smartphone will be made in the form of a slider with a touch dislpem and will work on the basis of the new BlackBerry OS 6, which will also be presented in early August.

It is expected that the BlackBerry 9800 smartphone to compete with iPhone of Apple. This device is a Canadian company will be primarily focused on consumer-rather than corporate customers, as the previous model BlackBerry.

Note that in April 2010 RIM introduced the smallest version of the BlackBerry. Pearl 3G smartphone is equipped with a screen resolution of 360 by 400 pixels and weighs about 90 grams. However, in the near future in Russia to go on sale smartphone BlackBerry 9520.

BlackBerry smartphones are the most popular in the U.S.. BlackBerry enjoyed almost 42 percent of all smartphone owners, while the share of iPhone is about 21 percent.