RIM is not a company well known for staying on the razor edge of new technology, and their adoption of 3g technology has been molasses slow. However, it looks like the speed-lusting crackberry addicts will have their dreams fulfilled with the rumored Blackberry 9000 phone.

Frankly, its a little more Motorola q9-ish then I would have hoped, but its nice to see 3G at all.

The specs?

One of the BlackBerry 9000 devices will sport a screen with the dimensions of 480 x 320 (or maybe that’s 320 x 480), 1GB of on-board memory, and an Intel XScale PXA270 processor at 624MHz, clocking in slightly faster than the 620MHz ARM 1173 processor found in the iPhone. The BlackBerry 9000 will also sport the dual-threat of GPS and WiFi as well as introducing 3G support (multi-band HSDPA) to the GSM carrier family devices, answering the prayers of many of us. At this point in time, there’s no update to the camera, which remains at 2 megapixels, although we’re hearing there is the possibility of seeing a 3.2 megapixel camera at launch.

Big ups to BGR for the story.