Whilst travelling, Kevin of Crackberry came across a T-mobile branded Blackberry 9700 complete with the trackpad, rather than the trackball, and spent a little time with the BlackBerry smartphone and also captures an image of the device with this BlackBerry Tour.

The T-Mobile BlackBerry 9700 is a sliver chrome version with a leather battery door and he says it felt different in the hand and felt like a sturdy handset.

It’s nice to finally see a 3G BlackBerry sporting the T-Mobile branding, so maybe this one is due sooner rather than later.