Sprint’s BlackBerry 8350i in the woods
For those of you clinging to your iDEN network with dear life, you probably never thought this day would come. Well, it has, and we’ve got some live pictures of Sprint’s BlackBerry 8350i. One of our ninjas took some time out to photograph one for us and gave us a quick rundown. Here we go:
- The 8350i has a 2.5mm headset jack, not a 3.5mm one, and it comes with a 2.5mm headset in the box.
- Ships with the much beloved plastic holster, not the leather holster we’re accustomed to.
- There’s a small size difference. It’s around 2mm taller and 1mm thicker than the other Curves (8300, 8310, 8320, 8330).
- The PTT button can not be reassigned as a convenience key.
- Instead of using the same battery as the Curve, the 8350i uses the BlackBerry 8800-series batteries.
- The side keys are now black instead of being chromed
- We were told the device isn’t a real beast in terms of the signal department. “It can’t get a stable signal to save its life once it boots up”
If that’s not enough for you, we’ve got all the snapshots in the gallery. Just make sure you’ve got your hardhats on, this thing screams CAUTION.
Click on over to our Sprint BlackBerry 8350i gallery!
I wouldn’t believe this nonsense telesales isn’t taking any orders yet this guy manages to get one…sure
888-882-4030 They’ll take an order now, and ship it monday, Tell em BURD_DAWG sent ya…
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got my confirmation from local order at the store . My device shipped today 2nd air should see it monday , tuesday. I didn’t beleive it till the store provided me a tracking number for my order.
I think I did like (4) pre orders to make sure I get this phone… didn’t get a tracking number like tritan… wish they would give me something like that then I can rest easy… one rep told me they’re prepping for monday… she said its going to be a mad house… and not to even bother going to the stores cuz they will not have this phone… only through telesales… I asked at what time they’re open so I can be the first call… and even with my pre orders, I’m going to try and the the first one on the phone w/ t sales… good luck everyone!!
Hey BURD_DAWG…YOU’RE AWESOME…THANKS FOR ALL THE GREAT INFO YOU’VE BEEN POSTING ABOUT THE 8350i…CAN I GET THAT PROMO CODE…garciai1@comcast.net…thanks man!
Just ordered it on sprint.com–$150 before the $100 rebate as an upgrade for me.
Byrd Please hook me up w/that $25 promo code..my email is youngNobleLuciano@Yahoo.com
the phone is available online right now!! BD thanks for all the info throughout…. GBU!
Going to go pick mine up at lunch time…my rep ordered it Friday and it is being delivered today!
Otterboxes now available for 8350i!!! Just ordered mine in anticipation!
Use code CES2008 for 15% off! Or TECHBARGAINS20 for 20% off orders over $60!
http://www.otterbox.com/blackberry-cases/blackberry-curve-push-to-talk-defender-case/
Thanks for all the info all! The wait is almost over!
Deafboy thanks for the info on the otterbox discounts. Ive got my BB and its working fine. The otterbox is on the way
Pre-ordered on Monday @ 11:00 a.m. Just received a phone call tonight (Wed) from a Sprint Rep verifying and CONFIRMING my order!
A n t i c i p a t i o n!
That got damn UPS! Those butt holes never deliver anything on time. My fiancee waited for those fucker all day and they never showed. I checked the tracking website and the driver put in the system that no one was available to sign for the package. He never made an attempt. You can’t even get respect from the UPS drivers when you live in the hood. Bastards!
OK, so I went down with my new best friend (8350i) to the sprint store to get some crap, They had nothing… so he tried to seel me curve stuff, everything he tried to sell me would not fit right, I tried the otter thingy and it didn’t work, so if you get ANYTHING at all, make sure the packaging says it is specifically for the 8350i, because they are bigger, a little, so those soft surronds barely fit, kind of covered the push to talk button, and like I said the otter thingy for the curve would not work, so just make sure whatever you get is for the 8350i.
Also, man this thing is awesome, hate to say it, But worth the wait, if you think about it, were such whinners, I know, but I don’t care, But it is way cool, I downloaded google earth and it works awesome. I went from an i90 to this, so I got allot to learn, but it is so fun, Today I had a dr apt and my dr was an hour behind, I didn’t even notice cause I was trading stock options on etrade and time was like—————–> LUV IT FOLKS.
So I got mine last week, cause I complained about needing to test it on all the network changes I been making on iDEN switches, so they finally got it to me last Thursday and Like I said before, I pre-ordered on on Friday to, so now I got 2, WHAT, so I am putting the wifey on it now.
We should eventually set up a site somewhere, where we can all get eachother im addresses and talk, and PTT eachother, we gotta resurect this iden stuff man, there was a time when if you had this, YOU WERE THE JUNK! well I still think its the best out there.
only issue I have been having is trying to track a satellite, but like I sid, I went from an i90 to this, so I got allot to learn Homie mcnomie’s…
Right on yall, I love it so much, hey, when I activated it, there was one other issue, they kept asking me for an MSN number, well there is no msn number anywhere, I had to go to a specialist, so if you run into them asking for an msn number, tell them they have to do a conversion of some sort, they have to convert you IMEI to an MSN, so if you get there, do that.
PEACE OUT! yeah, I said peace out, who’s gonna make fun of my ghetto talk…. hee hee, Im so not ghetto, but I luv typing ghetto….
so IMEI coverts to your MSN, MSN is not your mobile subscriber number either, TRIED THAT.
K IM RAMBILING, Back to google earth!
SAWEEEEEEEEEEET
Ben,
116*42*6908~ hit me up if ou wanna holler about some iden crap…
FYI: MSN = BBPIN+BB at the end of it. (IE: 401B56C8BB)
Has anyone else experienced the DC not working properly? When some trys to beep me it won’t go through. Is it because this person is not on my contact list? It says user busy A0.
HELP!!!
THEY DIDN’T ACCEPT THE PROMO CODE BURD_DAWG…
The 8350i is the best phone sprint/nextel has came out with sence the merger.
Has anyone else have a problem with getting pictures? Sometime they come right through, others they won’t load the picture up.I have all the signal for them to be sent and recieved messages (NXTL).Please help????
same here terry, not only having troubles receiving pics but regular text messages are not coming through… i have to shut off/restart the phone and then i start receiving messages… about to get on the line w/ sprint to see what’s up w/ that…
one thing i must say, i don’t know if sprint made some improvements to the iden voice network… but going from the i730 (which sucked and everything sounded digital) to the hyrbrid (cdma/iden – good combo)and now this 8350 (so far so good… no dropped calls, no digital voices…) i think sprint did something because the quality is very very good, almost like cdma-ish… let me not jinx it… lets see how it goes from here on out…
Anyone know if it will work with Boost? I’m sure it does because most other Nextel phones do, but I just wanted to make sure before I drop $400 on one.
RE: Otterbox Design Recall Email
Price you pay for being on the cutting edge…
We have identified a design issue with the holster on the 8350i Defender Case. The latest model of the device re-located the magnet that puts the phone in “rest” mode. Thus, our current holster does not function as designed. We are currently offering a recall with free shipping back if you wish to return the case you purchased or you can “keep the unit” and we will automatically send a New Re-designed Holster with the correct magnet placement in mid to late January. We apologize for this error and the inconvenience caused. Thank you for supporting our products and we hope to remain your favorite choice for protection of your handheld devices!
I own it. It’s 100 x better then the 7100. No issues so far. It’s clear and has a few toys. I got it for 150.00 so that to me is a deal.
I can’t recieve any picture mail from anyone. Can anyone help???? Please… i love the phone,just can’t picture mail. second device n still same problem.
I got my 8350i blackberry phone today and “IM NOT HAPPY” at all with this phone. this is the mew 7100i all dressed up and “NO WHERE TO GO” this phone has all kinds of software problems, from texting, picture mail, to the Web browser. this phone uses the old out dated nextel system so it dont support the blackberry software application so what you have is a blackberry phone with a mobile wab browser.
so this phone do not support blackberry software of application that is why you is having all the “PROBLEM” with this phone. sprint need to “UP DATE THE OLD OUTDATED NEXTEL SYSTEM FIRST. SO IM SENDING THIS PHONE BACK TO SPRINT