The Wall Street Journal has reported Research in Motion will be holding a press conference next Tuesday to unveil its new BlackBerry. All indications are the once darling of the executive class will be trying to catch up to the field by introducing a touch screen model, capable of pinching and scrolling thru features, and will be sporting a slide out keyboard, just like the modern big boys.

BlackBerry loyalists will probably appreciate the new features, but the whole world will be watching and some will be holding their breath that this won’t be a repeat of the Storm disaster. That’s really not fair, as the Storm was a good phone, it just came to the party late and was pretty much “ho-hum” by the time it was introduced.

RIM needs a hit to regain a grip on a market it once dominated. Can they do it? Tune in next Tuesday and we’ll see what we see.