Comments on: BlackBerry Bold hits Rogers on June 25th?

By: mrp

mrp — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:52:14 +0000

I stopped by rogers store earlier today and they have not heard anything. Apparently it’s not unusual that they would have no advanced warning, the inventory manager calls to tell them how many units they will be getting.

In this case, the inventory manager has not called yet.

I don’t think we’re going to see it until end of july or august.

By: pop!

pop! — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:11:08 +0000

so when is it?

By: Travis Brown

Travis Brown — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:10:40 +0000

Or they’re just not saying anything. They might know and not tell you.

By: mladen

mladen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:08:59 +0000

So is July 17th the expected release date now? I called Rogers customer service but they are so retarded and dont know anything.

By: Aleks

Aleks — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:33:16 +0000

anyone know if the blackberry bold goingto be for us cellular?

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:55:54 +0000

I’m a huge Apple fanatic (an iBook, MacBook and iPod Video owner) and I don’t think I will ever own an iPhone.

There are a million reasons…one of the big ones being the keyboard and how you cannot get QWERTY in landscape mode, and there’s no haptic feedback either. I love picture messaging, but having to know the correct email extensions for each of my friends can be extremely annoying.

And having to send my phone to Apple for service (particularly for the battery) doesn’t appeal to me either considering I’ve had a battery failure on my iBook already, and I can’t get my iPod to hold a charge for more than 2hrs anymore.

I don’t necessarily love the design of the Bold, but that’s not as important to me as are the features and the durability of the unit.

By: Hep

Hep — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:30:06 +0000

Thanks BGR for giving us the best intel out there. So many other BGR wannabes think they know what they’re talking about. From what I’ve seen in my quest for info about the Bold, you’re the only one with credible stuff (which others quote). Keep up the good work!

By: GBallew

GBallew — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:33:30 +0000

@MRL.

Shut Up, you don’t know what your talking about. The Government even uses Blackberry’s because of how secure emailing on it is. Find some way for Apple to be that secure, but I don’t see that happening for quite some time now. I think its funny how Apple has been in the phone market for just under a year and people are predicting its takover of all things mobile. Is it a nice phone, by all means yes. Is it the “End-All” phone? by no means what-so-ever will it be. All it did was usher in a new era of advancement, just like the RAZR did. So stop all of this talk about the iPhone dominating the phone market, it just aint gonna happen.

By: john

john — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:31:50 +0000

I CAN TELL YOU ALL AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE RELEASE DATE IS JULY 17TH, NOT JUNE 25TH

By: Mike B

Mike B — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:11:25 +0000

Sure, busienss people need email, but they also won’t want to live without a decent internet browsing experience on their phone either. The web is the only reason I have an iphone. I don’t even use the ipod functionality.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:14:39 +0000

@mrl14 Yeah. You’re an idiot.

I’m not too sure about BB’s and Macs but I know that the Bold will be iTunes ready. Lets put that one towards the top of the list, “Why You Don’t Need/Want an iPhone”.

By: Mr. Ah So

Mr. Ah So — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:59:27 +0000

Sam Said: The Rogers website says “Something really big is coming July 11!”. I wonder what it is…

Coulde it be.. Godzilla des ka?

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:28:25 +0000

The Rogers website says “Something really big is coming July 11!”. I wonder what it is…

By: bj

bj — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:26:15 +0000

Rogers is also releasing the iPhone on july 11th. if you click “learn more” on the Rogers site, it will show you a clip from the press release stating that they are also releasing the iPhone 3g.

By: jdslim

jdslim — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:28:19 +0000

@mrl14

I agree with your comment about itunes. It would be nice to be able to use itunes on a blackberry. But wait the Bolds new OS will support itunes and all the other aplication that RIM is known for.

Hmm guess I don’t agree with your comment then lol. Nothing against the Iphone or Mac os but the sad truth is that without full and secure outlook echange support they can’t really compete with RIM and other corporate PDA’s. Apple makes an awesome product but not until the corporate mindset changes will apple be able to compete with windows and be a corporate standard..

Funny how PC’s (personal computers) are lossing ground to MAC for personal use but PC’s really don’t have competition when it comes too corparate use.

By: bigbmc26

bigbmc26 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:07:01 +0000

“I hear the units have been at AT&T’s distribution centers for a while now.”

Where do you guys get this stuff from? There are no RIM 9000s in any AT&T warehouse or distribution center. The thing hasn’t made it to field testing yet!

By: shlammed

shlammed — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:02:42 +0000

what it comes down to is this. everyone can live without the iPhone…noone NEEDS movies or music in their hands. but on the flip side…try making a business person live without their BlackBerry…they’ll probably kill you first.

By: shlammed

shlammed — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:01:16 +0000

@mrl14

you are honestly the most retarded person I’ve ever seen on this site with that post.

hahahahahh…RIM will fail
LOOOOOOOOOOL

honestly…get a clue dude.

By: j.p.michaels

j.p.michaels — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:40:22 +0000

With all the fuzz about the 2 new Galdiators on the 3G market, how much will the BB9K be?
I think this will be also a factor of success or no success. The Iphone 3G priced about 50% below the first release, that’s very aggressive to start with.

By: SApanda

SApanda — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:31:01 +0000

Is that for Rimm as a whole or for an individual carrier?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:53:30 +0000

I have heard tale that the SIM in the iPhone will not work in any other device.

By: Serbon

Serbon — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:42:14 +0000

Actually, official launch is on July 08, 2008 (6:00PM).
I received registration confirmation for event( reply bellow).

“polished | passionate – Registration Confirmation for Roger BlackBerry Bold Event
Your registration information has been successfully submitted. Your confirmation code is: XXXXXXXX. Please make note of this code as you can use it to return to this website to provide feedback and photos after the event.

You will be one of the very first people to experience the elegant, ultra-sophisticated BlackBerry® BoldT smartphone.

polished | passionate

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
XXXX Nightclub
XX XXXX St.
6:00pm to 9:00pm”

By: Pouya

Pouya — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:56:42 +0000

Have people who are so excited about a 3G Iphone and are going to switch actually tried typing an email on one? It’s a horrific experience. If you want it to look cool, that’s fine, but let’s not get carried away in thinking the iphone can do stuff the new blackberry can’t.

By: rajja

rajja — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:22:15 +0000

Rim fail….. you look at the sales and tell me who sale 2units to every one iphone. I will say the iphone looks great but that’s about it. you call the BOLD crap but yet all the stats are the same if not better than iphone. http://blackberryforums.pinstack.com/showthread.php?t=76066 lets see what you apple fanboys can say to that!

By: mrl14

mrl14 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:31:36 +0000

You guys are waiting for the crappy Bold to come out? Get over it. RIM is dead. The Bold has the same lame keyboard as the 8800 series phones…where is the Bold with the curve style keyboard?

Their OS is horrible. Their integration can’t even compare to the iTunes simplicity of setting up an iPhone and installing apps. RIM’s lack of integration with the Mac is the reason they will fail. Mac users speak, they turn their friends onto great products, but unfortunately, the the Bold won’t be one of them.

This is it for RIM. Over the next 2 years Blackberry’s will be phased out of businesses in favour of more powerful, modern operating systems. Stop doubting Apple, you’re just going to lose. I’ve seen it happen time and time again.

By: Oz

Oz — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:41:48 +0000

Does anyone know generally how long before a new Berry is released in the States it would come to Europe (specifically Switzerland)?

Cheers,
Oz

By: ros

ros — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:17:47 +0000

What will make up my mind is if Rogers allows WiFi browsing on the Bold. They have recently released a version of the Pearl with WiFi but browsing is locked out. (Shame on you Rogers)
Data plans also will be a factor. We all know how expensive BB packages can be and also how much data an iPhone can eat up.

By: Conrad

Conrad — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:17:34 +0000

@ wifiguy

I imagine the sim card will work for both but the bb has a different data package so probably no dice (although I’m no expert and may well be wrong). When the Motorola Q9h?, whatever it’s called, came out on ATT, i wanted to test drive it in the worst way. But my ATT guy(s) were saying that I wouldn’t be able to get back on the same bb plan if I bailed on the Q9. So I stayed put with my bb. And after I put the opera mini browser on it, I was/am pretty happy. Way better than the native browser.

@ Ryan

Yeah, I’m almost in your camp about RIM snoozing and losing my business on my next phone. iPhone 3G is very enticing, very sexy, and I LOVE APPLE PRODUCTS. BUT… I’m not doing w/o my MMS, my cut/paste, my keyboard. I’m just not. I’m with Shelley on this one. So good luck with that.

@ Nokia E71

So close and yet so far. 2.5 headset jack?? Why!? No thanks! No USB? Again, no thanks. And that bizarro keyboard lay out? No thanks.

By: WickedRabbit

WickedRabbit — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:13:25 +0000

For Rudy,
I doubt Apple is giving ATT anything for selling iPhone. Wasn’t there just an article that finally came out that said that AT&T won’t even make money on the iPhone for at least 2yrs? So, that would be incentive enough right there. They won’t want anything that may hurt the iPhone sales to launch at the same time because they need to sell as many as possible to actually make money on it sooner.

If they could, they probably wouldn’t release the Bold at all this year. My guess, is that AT&T doesn’t launch the Bold until late August for that very reason and the only reason it’ll hit by August is because RIM said summer release.

By: G.Quagmire

G.Quagmire — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:16:24 +0000

@ Ryan

“I personally think that RIM is going down…Because there are SO many future BlackBerrys that it’s too hard to keep track of… why would anyone buy the Bold when we already know of the Javelin, SeaWolf and Thunder?”

Dude, there are only 3 “announced” new models. Well, 3 unique form factors anyway (QWERTY/Bold, Flip phone/Kickstart, touchscreen/Thunder). All the rest of those names are just variations on one of those 3 models. When the dust settles, there’s probably only going to be 1 name for each. That’s not so much to keep track of, especially considering at least half of those are either rumors, vaporware (at this point), or R&D development names.