The hot question right before we ticked over to 2008 was whether the image below is the new BlackBerry 9000? Yes? No? I don’t care! If your answer is – I don’t care, then I’m with you. However for those that do care, these images were taken from an eBay auction that got delisted. I’m not saying that these images are or aren’t the real deal, except that it raises more questions than answers.

According to the forum posts, this device does NOT sport a touchscreen, 3G is being tested on a few devices and RIM is working on the ability to send HTML emails. Looking at the physical aspects of the device, it does have an external microSD slot, digital camera, micro-USB port for charge and sync.