Comments on: RIM CEO says AT&T still testing Blackberry Bold

By: Turf Gal

Turf Gal — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:48:08 +0000

Forget the att blackberry bold. Go get the Motorloa Q 9Q from Verizon. It is better and usefull to use.

By: David

David — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:23:20 +0000

@maxpayne79

Next time you want to call us the good old crappy USA, take off your jean jacket, jean shirt and jeans and shove a bold up your ass, then get your girlfriend to call you from her iphone. You would be flying a USSR flag if it were not for us. Give your self a hand, your country did do something in the last 100 years besides play hockey, o yea the Blackberry. The good old crappy US loves to laugh at your cloths, speach, maple leafs, and credit report commercials you film there. We will put a boot in your ass, yes I said boot, not “a boot”, that’s not a word shit bag.

By: RockinRocky

RockinRocky — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:47:37 +0000

Please, ATT is just holding off till the sales of the 2nd gen iPhone die down to just a few a week, (nationwide). Then they’ll let loose the iPhone slayer! But, I HAD to get a .net phone since mine developed ‘BRAIN DAMAGE’! And I could not wait til 2010 for ATT to release the Bold, so I pre-ordered a G1…. Hope I like the Android!!

By: Lil

Lil — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:31:04 +0000

For what it’s worth I was at my local ATT owned store today & talked to the manager. He said that they do not have a firm release date at present and, most worrysome to him, they have not sent out display materials, accessories or anything else BB bold related yet. He advised me to wait & that it should be released soon but that he thinks that that means before Thanksgiving

By: TRV$

TRV$ — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:49:49 +0000

@BGR staff and all posters. This is how I know BGR is first choice of phone blogs. I submitted a pic of the samsung milky demo phone to BGR which they posted. Yes those are my meats wrapped around the silly white phone. a week later we get the confirmation email from our warehouse director, who oversees orders for our company’s 200+ stores, saying we can now order this handset followed with this sentence: “Picture of A637 at bottom. Best I can get at the moment”… the pic? It was the one BGR posted from the pic i sent them. That to me shows how legitimate this site is on getting/posting relevant info before anyone else.

So yeah, keep up the good work BGR, bias or not you guys rock.

By: ill

ill — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:51:50 +0000

yea seems everyone is confident about all these “release” dates.. i think we should learn our lesson by now.

By: jsa

jsa — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:39:06 +0000

Went to the local AT&T store yesterday. The sales guy said that their staff received trainging on the Bold this week and that it would be available in his store in about 2 weeks. For what it’s worth, he seemed very confident about this timeframe.

By: blah

blah — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:17:20 +0000

Obviously pressure is on to bring this to market, but at the same time RIM could have alleviated the pressure by keeping better wraps on the product until it was done with testing.

To blame AT&T is not totally fair. AT&T has not announced a date for this product, and it ALWAYS puts devices through stringent testing cycles of about 12 weeks before announcing technical acceptance. Up until that time, a product that doesn’t meet expectations is sent back for defect repair, or even in some cases dropped.

Let AT&T and RIM do their work to get the product ready. Until then, enjoy your Curve/iPhone/whatever.

By: AlbertWesker

AlbertWesker — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:01:27 +0000

LOL @ Jordan..

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:55:16 +0000

this just in, they have changed the name of the bold, it is now going to be called

“the blackberry cock tease”

That is all…

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:06:48 +0000

It serves RIm right to give e the “exclusive” to, what has clearly been established as, the shittiest” 3G network in the world!
How were RIM’s sales this quarter?

By: Tyrone D.

Tyrone D. — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:40:33 +0000

I’m very irritated about the delay but after reading this, I’m a little happy that AT&T/RIM are taking their time to release a solid device. I really don’t want to deal with issues the iPhone 3G users dealt with on AT&T’s network. I’ve tested a few different phones on the 3G network in Boston and they’ve run rock solid for me. I’ll wait patiently to get this phone because I know I won’t buy anything else..

Unless, I try the Storm and I like it, than I will switch to Verizon.

Take it easy ya’ll… both phones are coming and they will be worth it.

By: Crooklynnyc

Crooklynnyc — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:35:14 +0000

smh.this is nonsense.Fuck Rim and att. g1 replacing my icraphone until nokia comes out with the replacement for the e90

By: MaxPayne79

MaxPayne79 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:32:54 +0000

ya’ll people need to relax a bit. it’s just a phone. Jesus. Up here in canada we’ve had it for two months now and ya, it rocks but it’s got 3G problems from what i can tell. But then so does my e71 and my girls iphone so maybe its the network. But seriously, you need to go get urselves some girlfriends and play with that. I know they’re not easier than a blackberry…i hear ya but…but to get into arguments and bashing people over opinions on a phone??? like, hello..lol 1. grow up and 2. go do something. Just remember that by the time the phone comes out in the good old crappy U.S. of A., u won’t even remember just what the f*ck u were bitchin’ about on this blog, know what im sayin.

By: jayjay

jayjay — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:27:42 +0000

@EvilHomer

I don’t know if you noticed, but most “other” sites don’t get the scoops BGR does or are just too lazy to try. That’s why we keep coming back here!! The problem with that though is the other sites either post a link straight to BGR or give a summary of the negative remarks. That’s where blog sites go wrong. Everyone wants to be up to date with posts so they quote BGR or another site. Pretty soon the opinion of the original source is taken as fact.

By: mrHiDefinition

mrHiDefinition — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:04:18 +0000

I am not happy that they have pushed this phone back so much but I am willing to wait until AT&T and RIM get it right. I rather have a device late then have one early with so many bugs a new firmware update is needed every week for it to function. But in all fairness, I might have a little more patience since I currently have an iPhone 3G and a BlackBerry 8310.

Either way, I hope this issue with AT&T gets resolved asap so everyone can purchase their Bold.

By: Blackberry Bold

Blackberry Bold — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:53:07 +0000

What AT&T doing right now is testing my patience.

By: Perspective

Perspective — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:41:27 +0000

As a result of the delays, the phone is being renamed the Blackberry “Old.” Sorry, couldn’t resist.

By: Evilhomer

Evilhomer — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:24:03 +0000

@Anonymous loser: BGR is not the only site that’s been posting negative information about RIM lately. I have read many of the same stories on other blogs. Why don’t you do us a favor and spend some time researching other sites and spend some quality time away from here. You are just about the biggest bitchin’ little baby I’ve ever seen.

Just ask yourself one question. Is it really important whether the delay of the Bold is AT&T’s or RIM’s fault? Will laying the blame at either company’s feet get one in your pocket any faster? What the hell does it matter to you at the end of the day if BGR thinks it’s RIM’s fault. Are you so pathetic that it is going to disrupt your little world what their opinions are about RIM?

You’ve been told by several members of their staff that they like and use RIM products. If they didn’t like them, you think they don’t have enough phones laying around their shop that they couldn’t use something else?

Why don’t you do us and yourself a favor by bringing your ranting down a notch or two?

By: Vango

Vango — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:19:17 +0000

I got just one fact. Just one little fact that I found out by my little old self:

A fleet (7) Att tech vans were parked in my neighborhood the other day. I approached and talked with one of the techs. In short, (with some gentle prying) he told me that Att’s network has been in need of an upgrade for quite a while, and that the iPhone simply put the magnifying glass on the subject. Now Att is scrambling to fix things. He wasn’t sure about phone (Bold) delays, but felt no doubt that if a 3g phone were to be delayed at all at this point in the year, then it ‘could’ be due to the network issues.

Today driving home today I saw 1 Att van set up to access the cell tower on the back side of my neighborhood.

All those vans dong cell work….sounds like an upgrade in progress to me. A fast upgrade at that.

Ask yourself just one little non-biased question: would one phone’s highly publicized problems prompt a quick, but silent network upgrade, while simultaneously proving problematic to a second (as yet to be released) highly publicized phone? Or another question: would one phone’s highly publicized problems prompt a bunch of CEO’s to be vaguely mum? ……yes and yes.

Of course there are Bold OS issues. Anything with an OS now a days gets updated/upgraded on the fly.

So RIM launched in the summer as advertised. Att is launching “later this year” as advertised. One specific, one vague. Either way ….we wait.

By: goldciv

goldciv — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:45:00 +0000

Off subject, I think VZW has 2 world phones (RIM8830, Z6c), with 3 coming out very soon (storm, u810, and a usb modem that also supports 2100Mhz).

FYI

By: jvijil

jvijil — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:37:35 +0000

yeah i got tired of waiting for this fucking phone and bought a nokia e71. smaller and more compact than the bold with all the same features(:

By: Marc Flores

Marc Flores — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:16:59 +0000

@NickyHilton Thanks! The 8320 does rock… UMA calls are the best when stuck deep in an office building or anywhere reception is bad.

@Seabass Your name reminds me of the character from Dumb & Dumber. Maybe we should send you to AT&T and bully the Bold from them!

“Kick his ass, Seabass!”

By: Seabass

Seabass — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:06:27 +0000

I don’t care about the blame game!!!
Just give the the Bold.

By: NickyHilton

NickyHilton — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:55:45 +0000

@MarcFlores

I think you have pretty hot phones! You have a lot of phones! I also can’t wait till the Bold comes out. I have a pink colorwared Blackberry 8320 on T-Mobile and I love it to pieces!

By: gquaglia

gquaglia — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:47:08 +0000

The Bold will be out of date by the time its released. Compared to what’s out there, it looks like a bit of a dinosaur. Its too big and ugly as hell. I can’t see why so many are stroking it to this piece of plastic.

By: Marc Flores

Marc Flores — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:02:10 +0000

@Anonymous loser Glad you enjoyed my other posts, but we’re not taking it easy on AT&T, either… hence my remark about them admitting they can handle 20 Bolds per iPhone, and now we’re hearing they’re still in testing. And nothing makes me more furious at the carrier I primarily use when I call almost every week (strictly for this site) playing “clueless consumer” in order to squeeze out info for the Bold… only to be hit with, “We’re sorry, we don’t know a thing about it.”

By: Anonymous loser

Anonymous loser — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:58:35 +0000

Marc, the only reason I spent time responding is I was disappointed. I enjoyed your posts about HTC, Motorola, Apple and Ballmer. Then I read this and I see these same unfounded BGR jabs at RIM while not giving equal time to bashing AT&T on this one.

Maybe its something in the water at BGR headquarters. Perhaps you guys should start importing Canadian water… that might soften your take on RIM & help you realize AT&T isn’t without blame for the Bold.

Oh yeah, you don’t care whose fault it is anymore… ever since it looks like its more AT&Ts fault.

By: Anonymous loser

Anonymous loser — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:46:45 +0000

My response to that Marc is to go back and read the last 15 posts about RIM products on BGR. I am not the only one that sees the anti-RIM slant in the writing of posts.

Better yet, lets just look at this post of yours. You start on the right foot with it not being important who is at fault (BGR has been claiming its 100% RIM). Then you move on to summing up basically AT&T is delaying this thing according to RIM (you left off some of the good stuff from the CEOs quotes that make it sound even more of AT&Ts fault). You finish with unfounded jabs at RIM.

Where did your idea go about it no longer being important who is at fault? Why did you choose to take a poke at RIM at the end?

Do you have any kind of rumor that made you write RIM is shuffling their engineers away from Bold? Or was this just another jab at RIM in an attempt to make the problems of the post appear like its RIMs fault?

Hopefully you can see the tone in your posts that make numerous people comment on BGR about being anti-RIM.

Put your post together with Kellys posts and many others and BGR begins to show a pattern of blaming or hating on RIM. Many times with little to back it up. AT&T is just as much, if not more, at fault than RIM on this one and yet BGR only goes after RIM.

By: AlbertWesker

AlbertWesker — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:35:02 +0000

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