The folks at BlackBerry Leaks got hold of two photos of a BlackBerry in slider form factor. Some good coverage and commentary can be found at CrackBerry so I won’t repeat any of that here. I can say one thing, I was chatting with a number of RIM employees recently at MWC and they were loosely throwing around the idea of a slider as a possible future direction for the Storm line. I didn’t make much of the comments at the time, but perhaps those folks knew what was about to come.

My take: In light of Verizon’s rumored dropping of the Storm devices from its lineup, this ‘leak’ might be just what RIM need to restore some momentum to the Storm and keep it relevant in the touch form factor.