BlackBerry 8800 & 9xxx Series
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I thought I would share some new info I received pertaining to the 8800 on Cingular, and the new 9xxx series
- The 8800 on Cingular is scheduled for a mid February release.
- The 8800 (Cingular model) will not have a camera like previously reported.
- The 8800 keys are very much like the 8700, just a tad shorter — easy to type!
- Cingular’s 8800 will not have Wi-Fi
- The 9xxx series will have 3G
- The 9xxx series will support a full backup and restore to microSD card!
- Not sure if this is just Cingular, probably all major carriers but BIS 3.0 will be rolled out at the 9xxx launch
- It will have a new processor
- The 9xxx series will have a completely new UI
- The 9xxx series is scheduled to be released Q4 on Cingular
Thats it for now, you know where to keep checking for the latest info.
Q4??? Ghaaaaaa…talk about dropping the ball (again). You’d think with the iPhone announcement RIM would try to push the release of a 3G phone with new features/new UI up as quickly as they could!
Thanks for the update…you are on top of things, per usual.
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Thanks for the update BG. A poster on Blackberryforums announced yesterday that, contrary to initial info, the first 8800 will be sans wifi. You have any info on that?
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Yes I did hear the Cingular 8800 will not have wifi
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BG: what’s the over/under on when actually the 9xxx will be released? Can it really be Q4 of ‘07? Just wondering whether to upgrade to the 8800 next month. . .
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Well I guess I’ll be waiting until Q4 then. I hope my 8700c holds out that long considering I got it the day it came out. I’m just hoping that we will see the date for this get pushed up.
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Great info…Thanks.
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What about the 8800 with the camera? Will this ever make it to Cingy….
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Why do you want the phone to come out so soon?? So it can have a thousand bugs wrong with it and then you will complain that they released it too early.
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BoyGenius, what about T-Mobile’s version?
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No matter when it comes out someone will find a problem with it and there will be bugs and patches to implement. I just like new toys and dealing with some early bugs is an acceptable side-effect of getting the newest gadget.
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I frkn KNEW theyd take out wifi.. sigh.. that would have been a big seller for me… now… since the 8800 will not have camera.. does that mean the 9xxx is the crimson?.. and it will have a camera?… sigh… more waiting? i cant wait..
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I just read in blackberryforums about an 8900.. any info on that?
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Yeah, what about T-Mobile? Geeze, I’m startin to feel like I’m on Verizon. It’s 6months to a year before we get cool stuff. :-/ Guess I’ll buy unlocked.
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I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have wifi simply because Cingular doesn’t offer a wifi/UMA service, not because the phone doesn’t support it. T-Mobile on the other hand has tons of hotspots and has been testing out it’s wifi service (HotSpot @Home as it’s called), so when it comes out on T-Mobile I have no doubt they will have wifi enabled. Only question is, when is it coming out on T-Mobile.
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Everyone and their mom has wi-fi now. It doesn’t make sense that a phone would be released with or without wi-fi capabilities because the first carrier that is releasing it provides wi-fi services or not. Releasing the phone with wi-fi would’ve only brought in higher sales numbers regardless of who the first carrier is to get the device.
To me it just seems that RIM was (again) slow to react to what the customers want when they threw together the spec for the 8800.
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Well, i’ve posted this before but i went to a T-Mobile corporate store and asked a REP what’s the next device after the blackberry and when will it come out. He immediately showed me the white Pearl, i was like…yeah, i knew about this one already, hehe but there’s another one besides the white pearl ( mind you, i’m intentionally making believe i dont know the name which i do) and another REP jumped up and replied, oh yeah! the crimson. I was like, does it come with a camera and he said yes and that it should hit T-Mobile sometime in February. Don’t know how accurate he is but hey…you never know.
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man… not cool, i’m eligible for an upgrade but it seems pointless to get the 8800 now. anyone know the pricing yet?
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I’m very curious about the “completely new UI”. Going away from the old icons and lists format?
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Any idea if this will support Cingular’s “push to talk” service? It’s all but confirmed officially that the 8700c will never get “push to talk” on Cingular. What about 8800?
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Yeah…that “have the Pearl 3 months before anyone else” thing must have sucked…
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Nice….
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This phone will definitely have PTT service, and definitely not have WIFI.
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I might have missed this, but what about the memory expansion slot and the media player? I don’t need an mp3 player but there are times I wish I had some music to listen to.
-Thanks
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That was already known, the 8800 will have the same features as the Pearl more or less
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