BlackBerry Storm 9570 Cancelled?

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The mysterious touchscreen BlackBerry that was originally purported as the Storm 3, then just a refresh of the Storm 2 may be gone. We’re of course, referring to the RIM BlackBerry 9570, an alleged hardware refresh of the BlackBerry Storm 2 which tipsters claimed offered things like 512MB of RAM and BlackBerry OS 6.

A tipster contacted website BBLeaks.com, who is apparently a BlackBerry developer, and he was told this from RIM:

Thank you for your hard work and diligence in preparing your application to support the upcoming hardware refresh of the BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone (model number 9570, codename R027). Regrettably, RIM has decided not to pursue this device further and has ended the program.

However, rest assured that you will have the opportunity to leverage the work you’ve put in thus far in preparing for the new OS, as BlackBerry 6 will be making its way to more Verizon products in the near future, including the BlackBerry Bold 9650 and the BlackBerry Curve 9330.

As you can see, we’re skeptical. Time will tell how accurate this is.