BlackBerry Bold 9650, Pearl 3G Exposed Early

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RIM’s biggest BlackBerry expo, WES 2010, is set to start tomorrow, and the big keynote unveil this year was expected to be two new phones, a new Bold full-size phone and a new slim Pearl with T9 keypad. Unfortunately for RIM, website TheStreet.com looks like they broke their NDA early and posted information about the upcoming phones. Ooops!

The first phone is the BlackBerry Bold 9650, in the full-size QWERTY-packing Bold series of BlackBerry phones. We don’t know much about this phone, since RIM didn’t detail the internal specs of the phone. It looks like the regular Bold 9700, with RIM saying it has a “high-resolution screen”, GPS and WiFi. It also has a 3.2-megapixel camera.

The phone was rumored to be a BlackBerry Tour 9630, except with a optical trackpad, instead of a trackball. If true, that would give it a 624MHz Qualcomm processor, 128MB of RAM and 256MB of flash storage with a microSD card slot. The phone will run on CDMA frequencies and is heading to Sprint.

The other new phone is the Pearl 3G, which takes some styling cues from the Bold series, but instead has the T9 keypad. It will have a similar 3.2-megapixel camera and “high-resolution screen”. Nothing yet on the internal workings of the device. It’ll be strictly a GSM phone, with it hitting Canada’s three major telcoms. RIM hasn’t announced any US carriers yet, but those three Canadian carriers run the same GSM frequencies at AT&T – could be something to watch.

Expect more details on these phones with RIM officially announces them later in the day.