WES 2009 Rumors: LTE BlackBerry, BlackBerry 9630, 1GHz CPUs
From May 5 to 7 in Orlando Florida, RIM will will be hosting Wireless Enterprise Symposium or WES. While BGR will be there on the floor for the entire convention bringing you the latest BlackBerry news as it happens, we thought we’d give you all a little bit of a taste of what we know/believe is to come.
First off, expect to see the 8900 Curve make an appearance courtesy AT&T. As many people on AT&T who are running unlocked 8900s by now already know, the official AT&T service books have been pushed out which means that AT&T is doing the final prep work for launch. More notable and more exciting will be the official acknowledgment of the BlackBerry 9630 codenamed Niagara.
As you know from our feature review of the device, the BlackBerry 9630 blends the size and styling of the 8900 Curve and Storm with the heavenly keypad from the Bold all the while features a gorgeous 480×360 display, 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS, OS 4.7.1 and last but not least the lovable combination of dual-band 1xRTT/EV-DO from the CDMA side, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and the single and lonely 2100MHz band of UMTS/HSDPA from the GSM side. Happy, you boys and girls of red?
As far as a release date goes, we’ve heard Canadian CDMA carrier/s will get it as early as late May, early June and Verizon would be launching around the June/July timeframe. We were told a while back RIM was utterly disappointed with the Bold fiasco (announcing in May and shipping in 2012 on AT&T) but we’re guessing they haven’t learned their lesson yet.
BES 5.0 also looks to be a lock as the “gold code” is now being tested which means that RIM has gotten to the point where its just about ready for release to those whose lives revolve around port 3101. And keeping with the number 5.0, there is some talk that RIM is finally going to be up front about the existence of OS 5.0 despite the fact that we’ve been tinkering with it for longer than the Bold has been around with AT&T.
Now this next two are a bit sketchy, but a long time ago we told you that RIM wasn’t going to be embarrassed again by releasing a device like the Bold running on the outgoing 3G technology at a time when everyone in the World is holding their breath in anticipation of LTE. So with that in mind, we’ve been told that there is a possibility that RIM might take the wraps off of their work with an LTE device, or better yet show one off on stage or behind glass enclosures. We can’t say for sure this is going to happen, but we are comforted by the fact that RIM has indeed already begun trials of its LTE device. As for the second iffy rumor, it’s bound to happen at some point in time — though not necessarily at WES — so we’re just throwing it in here as a bonus. Apparently RIM is going to be releasing a device or two with processors that top off at 1GHz sometime within the next 9-12 months. Again, don’t hold us to this, but the whispers are getting louder and louder.
iWhat?
Rim rocks!
I’m still hoping for the Niagara in late May, but I guess early June would be OK.
Niagra, shmiagra!
Any full QWERTY keyborad on a phone is a waste of prescious space. Its a PHONE for crying out loud…not a computer!
Wow! New faster blackberries that still do nothing interesting except email. Seriously when was the last time you had fun on a blackberry? 2001? Don’t get me wrong, they are productive as all get-out. But between the teenagers who are using their mom and dads old curves for testing (and without BIS) and the 65 year old secretaries that were company issued the blackberry and don’t know BES from Pez and the litle Tweens that got the pearl on ATT because it was pink, there are enough posers out there that LTE and 1 GHZ processors would be completely wasted.
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I’m excited to see what the next berry will be like. I was originally going to get the Bold. But after numerous delays and the iPhone 3G my money went to Apple. While I lovethe tight itegration of my iPhone and MacBook pro, I miss my blackberry. It really is an addiction that never goes away.
Does mobile me email sync to blackberries? Anyone car to answer that?
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Eric speaks the truth!
I was a ardent TMO supporter, but their lack of development of real high speed network has been a serious let down. After 12 years I’m looking to move on.
RIM better be developing an advanced power management system to support 1Ghz processors. Otherwise, they won’t last any longer than any random WinMo phone. That would be too low a standard for any Blackberry user to tolerate.
1ghz they better be upping the resolution to at least 800x 600
an pull at least 30 FPS
Iphone on Verizon this summer eh? I’ll believe that when I see it. But I love posts that read “I know a guy and he’s legit, iphone on verizon this summer”.
Cracks me up. Yeah, you know a guy, yet it’s stayed out of the news? That’s pretty big news… which tells me it’s simply not true.
Where is the Sprint news out of WES? I refuse to believe that the Sprunt 2009 roadmap wasn’t completely and totally accurate and that Sprunt is not going to release the Niagra on the exact time frame it laid out(end of Q3).
Oh, who am I kidding?
Any new drop date info on the 9630 for VZW???
BGR Ninjas awake…
Release a blackberry running at 1 ghz? That’d be something to really look into!