Early New Year’s gift from BGR: T-Mobile release schedule revealed, BlackBerry Curve 8900 included
Maybe one of our ninjas was feeling inspired by that crazy new Dick Tracy watch LG has in the pipes because he decided to go super-sleuth and dig up the goods on T-Mobile’s upcoming release schedule for January and February, 2009. This screenshot of T-Mobile’s internal release schedule reveals pink’s upcoming lineup for the first two months of 2009 and T-Mobile well, February is most definitely your month T-Mobile people! You’ve got two major handsets dropping on the 18th: the 8 megapixel Samsung Memoir and yes, that’s right, the highly anticipated BlackBerry Curve 8900. Can you hold out another month and a half? Here’s what you’re looking at over the next two months:
- January 21: Sony Ericsson TM506 in scarlett
- January 21: Nokia 7510
- January 28: T-Mobile Shadow
- February 4: Motorola Renew
- February 4: Samsung t119
- February 18: RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900
- February 18: Samsung Memoir
Happy New Year, from your pals at BGR!
What’s the difference between the Curve 8900 and the original Curve? Why is RIM launching so many BB’s within six months – the Bold, Storm, Flip Pearl and now an updated Curve?
UGH…Enough already. I am SO tired of hearing the “Smartphone pundits” predict yet another *release date* for the Javelin (aka “Curve 8900″ ask “Curve 2″). We’ve been hearing it’s coming to T-Mobile *next month* since July.
By the way, these are the very same “TMO insiders” that assured us (without a doubt) that TMO was the first to get the Bold. We all know (now) *that* was bad information. So please spare us the *next week* stuff unless you actually know something.
Additionally, the feature-hysteria speculation is just out of control on these forums. I’m really tired of hearing all of this iPhone killer nonsense that never materializes. (The day I will sync and play my iTunes (M4P) library onto my Blackberry is far, far off, dear Smartphone pundits – so please stop telling me otherwise. AS IF Apple would EVER let that happen…)
I’ve called TMO Customer Service every week and they always tell me the same thing, “There are no new Blackberry devices on-deck for T-Mobile. Have you thought about a G1?”
Actually this week, I was told by TMO Blackberry Support that their chances of getting the Blackberry Storm next (in June or July 2009) were better than them getting the Javelin.
In an attempt to be coy, I asked if I could use and unlocked Javelin on their network and was told, “Don’t do that. Trust me, it won’t work the way you think it will”.
So, not to knock the geniuses, but where are they getting their information? Even if T-Mobile is lying to me, all of the *experts* have been way off and far-flung on their projections of T-Mobile’s Blackberry line-up.
If you ask me, TMO is getting out of the cell phone/SmartPhone business and more into the home phone business with their ever-growing line-up of low-end devices.
What’s next a TMO 3G JitterBug? It seems we stand a better chance of seeing that than another Blackberry.