I have said before that I am not a big Blackberry fan. I do like the trackball navigation that the devices use. The downside to the trackball is that the little balls can be prone to breakage, and a broken balls is no laughing matter. One friend has had to have his ball replaced twice now.

I am sure that many other Blackberry users have had issues with the trackball breaking at one point or another as well and some suitably blurry spy shots of a new Blackberry device called the Onyx have surfaced with an optical track pad.

BGR isn’t sure, if the devices in the image are prototypes or if they are early production units. We can only wait and see, but the optical track pad will stop the viscous cycle of ball breakage for many Blackberry users.

[via BGR]