Now here’s a smartphone that looks to be taking a few hints from research In Motion’s BlackBerry smartphones; the HTC Maple, a sort of BlackBerry look-a-like.

The HTC Maple, sports a fully QWERTY keyboard, trackpad, and a 2 megapixel camera, with a BlackBerry-ish form factor. Not a great deal of information is available on the HTC Maple as yet though.

It seems the HTC Maple centralises around social networking via a feature called “Inner Circle” so Maplers can keep in touch with friends and family in the usual manner. We’ll of course update you as and when we know more.

Source — cnet.de