The new browser, which will be available this year, was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

RIM has long been criticized for its browser, which reviewers (including this one) have said is out-of-date compared to competing handsets that use Apple, Google and Palm operating systems.

The new browser is key to preserving the company’s large consumer adoption base, which has been growing thanks to two-for-one carrier deals and despite an overall lack of innovation in software from the company.

Four months ago, RIM debuted the Storm2, an update to its fully touchscreen BlackBerry, which made all the right moves on the hardware front but still felt behind in terms of software.

The Canadian company last year bought browser specialist Torch Mobile in a bid to revamp its browser.

There's information that one of the main iPhone's competitors – Research In Motion (RIM) – has plans to offer a device which will be very similar to iPhone.

The name of new phone is Blackberry Thunder 9500.

I wasn't wondered when LG and Samsung offered phones with iPhonish design, but RIM… It's very interesting.

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