The BlackBerry Torch 9800 slider phone - the one that has been shown off in a number of spy shots in the last few weeks - has had a bit more dirt dug up on it.

New photos have emerged (shocking, we know) of the new BlackBerry, with comparisons to the Bold 9700.

Some are positing that this will be called the 9700a or the 9800, essentially a slider phone update to the popular new Bold.

Bigger, longer - faster?

The photos show the new slider phone next to a BlackBerry Bold 9700, highlighting that it's much thicker and a little longer (which you'd expect with an extra expanse of screen and keyboard wedged in there).

However, despite the myriad pictures leaking out of the phone, we're starting to doubt that this phone is actually in the works.

Each of the leaks look like further pictures of the same phone - so until we start seeing it turning up in other locations we're not sure this isn't much more than a retired prototype.

Add to that the fact it won't even turn on, and we're starting to worry even more - so here's hope the internet's intrepid spy-cam lovers can unearth some more dirt.

From BB Leaks