Vodafone Roadmap: BlackBerry 8xxx
Remember the BlackBerry 9000? It looks like that wasn’t a BlackBerry 9000 at all, but rather another device in the BlackBerry 8000-series! According to this document, which completely validates all our predictions of specs for the device, the BlackBerry 8xxx will see a commercial launch on Vodafone in May of this year. The specs one more time? 624MHz processor built on the new Tavor chipset, full HSDPA with tri-band UMTS (850/1900/2100), a "half VGA" screen (480 x 320), a frickin’ 1500mAh battery, GPS, Wi-Fi, a 2 megapixel camera, and will be targeted to the high-end BlackBerry users. Again, we’re looking at a May release for Vodafone, so we can’t imagine AT&T is going to be far behind, they might even get it before! Hit the jump for the full slide!
Steffi, HSDPA is a backwards compatible evolution of UMTS. Said in different words – it is UMTS, but much faster than UMTS. At least in Europe practically all 3G UMTS operators have upgraded their network to 3.5 HSDPA speed (here in Spain 7.2 MB/s).