Lucky old Engadget have some brand new images of the upcoming BlackBerry 9000-series smartphone, showing RIM’s latest efforts in updating the OS design. The hardware matches up to the leaked image we first saw a while ago, managing to be restrained as well as purposefully attractive, while the all-important guts of the handset have been brought bang up to date with WiFi and HSDPA. Check out the video of the GUI and menu animations after the cut!

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Of course, all the slick animation in the world won’t sell handsets if they’re not in the stores, and the latest rumor is that RIM won’t get the 9000-series out of the door until August. By that time the 3G iPhone may well have launched, putting RIM at a serious disadvantage.