Strange thing to say, especially around here, but one of the biggest bits of camera based news is actually about what DOESN’T have a camera any more: the Blackberry.

See, for the longest time, there were a large quantity of office workers who were forbidden from bringing their Blackberry devices into the office because of the possibilities that proprietary information could be spirited away in the memory banks of a phone-camera’s photography system.

Even Dilbert mocked this concept half to death–after all, most information could have been just as easily stolen by burning it to CD or DVD, not to mention copying it to a USB thumb drive or just emailing it out of the building outright, not to mention the possibility of printing it out and tucking it in your pants somewhere.

But now, office workers can have their Blackberries once again, because they now come without cameras.  The Blackberry Bold 9000 is part of a several model lineup of Blackberries that, despite all rational thought, has lost the feature that made so many of them verboten at the office.

Well, whatever makes the sales, I suppose.  It’s still kind of strange to think that they’d have to remove an option to make the deal, but considering how things are set up, it just might work.

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