HTC Maple, a Blackberry lookalike?

According to CNET, a HTC smartphone is supposedly due to be released and for now, is codenamed as HTC Maple.

Upon the first look, RIM's Blackberry comes to mind as the designs are very similar. See illustrations below for references:

HTC Maple

Blackberry Bold

Judging from the pictures, the 2 phones certainly look alike. Whether HTC will market this phone in Asia is still unknown but it would be interesting to see how its phone will fare against the Blackberry, the king of business phones.

Even my company is using Blackberry for all its managerial staffs and above, which in my opinion is a waste as our company is a statutory board, not a private-owned entity.

Nonetheless, let's see how the mobile phone sector will heat up with this new entrant.