The world has been waiting for a QWERTY/Touchscreen candy bar BlackBerry and it looks like the wait will soon be over. Well, who knows how soon but the first pictures of the BlackBerry Dakota have appeared. The Dakota is a Bold-style BlackBerry with a touchscreen. BGR got its hands on the exclusive photos.

The Dakota supposedly has HD video recording, NFC, 3G Mobile hotspot capable, and a magnetometer. See below for the full specs.

Features:

Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE

Tri-band UMTS

5 megapixel camera with HD video recording, flash, and image stabilization

4GB of built in storage, 768MB of RAM

2.8-inch VGA 640 x 480 capacitive screen

WiFi b,g,n on 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies

3G mobile hotspot!

MicroUSB port

Bluetooth

NFC

Magnetometer

Accelerometer

Proximity sensor

10.5mm thin

Launches with BlackBerry OS 6.1