With the imminent launch of the BlackBerry Storm2 and BlackBerry Bold 9700, an official BlackBerry OS 5.0 announcement by Research In Motion is expected to take place fairly soon. A support document published by RIM has identified the BlackBerries that will be upgradeable:
- BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8200 series smartphones
- BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphones
- BlackBerry Curve 8350i smartphones
- BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphones
- BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphones
- BlackBerry Storm 9500 series smartphones
- BlackBerry Tour 9630 smartphones
The support document outlines a couple of caveats. The upgrade will be offered at the discretion of carriers and devices must have more than 64MB of memory to support this version of BlackBerry Device Software. (i.e., no upgrade for some older Curves such as the 8300, 8310, and 8320).