BlackBerry 9000 hard specs, you excited?
While most of this has actually been leaked and confirmed by us previously, it’s always good to get a second confirmation, right? We just a hold of the final specs for the BlackBerry 9000 (they aren’t sure if they’re going to give it a name like the Pearl or Curve). So here we go:
- Radio – GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA
- Bands – Quad-band GPRS/EDGE: 800/850/1800/1900MHz
- HSDPA: 850/1900/2100MHz (praise the lord!)
- Expandable memory – microSD
- Display – HVGA Color LCD (480×320)
- TrackBall Navigation
- Camera – 2MP (Boo!)
- Wi-Fi – a,b,g
- A-GPS
- Battery – 1500mAh
- High quality material, high-end finish
- Software – 4.6
So there you have it — full specs on the much-awaited BlackBerry 9000. Ah, the carriers! AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, and Vodafone are indeed the launch carriers with AT&T having a U.S. exclusive and being the first carrier to launch worldwide. What would we do without our carrier ninjas? First yesterday’s document and now this! Shout out to y’all, you know who you are!
I spoke with a tmobile regional sales rep, prior to going to ATT and he defended their network in one aspect.
I quote “T-Mobile is an EXCELLENT solution if you are female, appreciate slow outdated networks, are under 16 years old, take drugs, and talk on the phone all day long, and if the call gets dropped, no one cares.”
If this model fits you, then you are the target customer!
Tmobile is a good carrier but do not expect them to be in the game in 12 months. They are good C- rated carrier, if you dont believe me check them in consumers reports they get a below average rating in Janruary 08 issue!
What about a successor to the Pearl with the new upgrade?
to address the conern about the A-GPS
i too wsw quite worried about the lack of plain ole GPS…
but i did my research and i am quite pleased.
From wiki….
Conventional GPS then had difficulty providing reliable positions in poor signal conditions. For example when surrounded by tall buildings (as a result of multipath), or when the satellite signals are weakened by being indoors or under trees. Some newer receivers are far better.
In addition, when first turned on in these conditions, some non-A-GPS units may not be able to download the almanac and ephemeris information from the GPS satellites, rendering them unable to function until a clear signal can be received continuously for up to one minute.
An A-GPS receiver can address these problems in several ways, using an Assistance Server:
The Assistance Server can locate the phone roughly by what cell site it is connected to on the cellular network.
The Assistance Server has a good satellite signal, and lots of computation power, so it can compare fragmentary signals relayed to it by cell phones, with the satellite signal it receives directly, and then inform the cell phone or emergency services of the cell phone’s position.
It can supply orbital data for the GPS satellites to the cell phone, enabling the cell phone to lock to the satellites when it otherwise could not, and autonomously calculate its position.
It can have better knowledge of ionospheric conditions and other errors affecting the GPS signal than the cell phone alone, enabling more precise calculation of position. (See also Wide Area Augmentation System)
Some A-GPS solutions require an active connection to a cell phone (or other data) network to function, in others [2] [3] it simply makes positioning faster and more accurate, but is not required.
As an additional benefit, it can reduce both the amount of CPU and programming required for a GPS Phone by offloading most of the work onto the assistance server. (This is not a large amount for a basic GPS – many early GPSs ran on 386/16 or similar hardware).
So I guess the question left is: Does the type of A-GPS in the 9000 still work if it does not have access to a data network?
OH BOY!!! A 3G BB with WiFi and GPS I guess I might know what my next locked phone is…
That’s exactly what I want to know as well Jerry! If the A-GPS in the 9000 will work without wireless/data connection(connect directly to satellite) and can you turn the A function off to save data traffic/charges?????????
Can someone please answer that?
my verizon plan is up in mid May would this phone be worth switching to AT&T??
Yes, but will it do HTML e-mail?
What does it matter? Tmobile is not 3G anyways. And even though they will roll it out soon, its UMTS 3G and not HSPDA. Its not like you will be able to unlock this and expect 3G love on Tmobile. You will get EDGE speeds no matter how hard you try.
There is a reason why Tmobile has a cheap network with no 3G and rolling out an old 3G network that the world is upgrading FROM. They don’t have the funds charging cheap rates to catch up with the other guys. Enjoy your cheap rates because a cheap network with cheap data is all you will ever get. The world is going to 4G and Tmobile is going to slower 3G technology? They will always be behind. I pay more for AT&T and I am so happy because I get awesome 3G from my phone, and awesome 3G for my laptop.
Buyin it!!!!!!!!!!!!
well…when it’s released…getting tired of the Curve
Can i unlock it and move it to t-moble’s future 3 g if it ever comes. My verizon contract has been up since Jan and I am ready to jump ship and get a flashy phone but Att is not cool and I want GSM.
How much for this thing? No way that is worth close to $1k.
Any word on the browser? Does it do Flash?
I wonder if they will have this phone for Sprint anytime soon?
Yeah….I did notice the Rogers at the bottom….maybe we’ll get them before the US!
) I’m waiting for the “Pearl 3/9100?”
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa….
Whats this touchscreen blackerry “storm” business?
I want to believe it, but I can’t believe any blackberry rumors that I can’t read on this website.
If they would add Video-out you could connect to a remote virtual desktop and really get close to providing the Nirvana Phone.
http://nirvanaphone.com
T-mo is actualy blackberrys highest rated carrier, they have the most blackberrys on a single network and also produce the most blackberry customers as far as t-mos 3g it is only umts for now by years end it is going to have the hspda rolling in the markets also, they are turning the stuff on testing to make sure it will work correctly, blackberry would rather deal with t-mo then any of the other carriers, and as far as coverage , t-mos coverage is bar far the worst the have the highest voice quality and rember the ad campaing that att had saying fewest dropped calls? then all of a sudden the add campaign stopped? that is because it was proved that they had more dropped calls on average per subscriber then t-mo …
So what’s with the lame 88xx keyboard on this new high end 9000? Is that not the worst full qwerty keyboard RIM has EVER come up with? Does anyone actually enjoy typing on it over say the Curve keyboard?
@Ryan,
I assure you AT&T is not concerned with T-Mobile as far as competition goes and did not drop the lowest dropped calls add campaign because of TMO. AT&T and Verizon are the two largest carriers by subscriber count in the US and that is where the real competition at the front of the pack is – between the two top carriers.
Actually he’s right, and you are wrong (regarding the dropped calls). At&t was forced to drop it because it’s a known falsehood. I have been with Tmobile for 3 years, I switched to Cingular for 2 days and had the 1st 3 dropped calls I’ve ever had since using Primeco back in the day…..Please research before posting again, thanks….
@Dayne,
I don’t need to do any research I work in the wireless industry and have worked with the data the claims were based off of. I said the add was not dropped because of TMO, I did not argue that it wasn’t true. In any case AT&T no longer uses the Lowest Dropped calls claim. My point is that AT&T is more concerned with what happens with the number 2 carrier (Verizon by sub count) that TMO
As for Ryan’s claims that RIM would rather work with TMO over any other carriers, that doesn’t even make sense. RIM wants to work with everyone, that is how they make sales. According to BG RIM will be releasing the 2G BB flip on TMO, as a temporary exclusive I assume, and that makes the most sense as all the other carriers would want a 3G BB now or in the near future.
Here is a good link regarding GPS and A-GPS
http://wmexperts.com/articles/gps_vs_agps_a_quick_tutorial.html
I have talked to RIM and T-Mobile will have in the 4th quarter. They just couldn’t get the UMA to work correctly to launch any ealier. But YES TMO will carry.