This last week has been filled to brim with great news flooding the front pages of the BlackBerry blogosphere. The top headlines this week of course centering around the official release of the new BlackBerry 9800 Torch and it’s new operating system, BlackBerry 6.

With plenty of tidbits of information regarding BlackBerry 6 circulating the net over the last several months, we BB junkies have had ample time to speculate over which (if any) of RIM’s current devices would be eligible to run this new operating system. Today I’m happy to report that there is finally a definitive answer to this debate and it comes straight from the man himself, Mike Lazaridis. In his most recent post over at Inside BlackBerry, (announcing the Torch 9800) Mr. Lazaridis took the time to comment on the status of some of the current BlackBerry devices already in use.

“…I know many of you are also wondering about support for existing BlackBerry smartphones. I am happy to report that BlackBerry 6 will be available in the months ahead (pending carrier certifications) on some of our leading smartphones, including the BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100, BlackBerry Bold 9650 and BlackBerry Bold 9700.”

This is certainly good news for many of us out there and perhaps a little disappointing to others, however the fact that we will indeed see BlackBerry 6 on some of these current devices is a promising sign that there could be more devices joining this list in the future. We’ll keep you posted.