AT&T BlackBerry 9700 unboxing
While it is set to go on sale November 22nd, business customers on AT&T have been able to order the 9700 starting yesterday morning. If you got in early enough, there’s a good chance your unit shipped out the same day just as ours did. Here’s a quick unboxing for anyone desperately waiting for their BlackBerry 9700s to arrive, and you can always re-read our BlackBerry 9700 review in case you really want to tear your hair out. Also, if anyone else picked up an AT&T unit, or even a T-Mobile unit for that matter, we salute you, friends. BlackBerry fiends need to stick together…
P.S. We’ve been told most AT&T store locations actually have BlackBerry 9700s in stock as of now, but they’re not supposed to sell them until the 22nd.
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@A seems like alot of people in the major cities are going away from the iPhone because it’s a better phone for calls. People are reporting better signal in NY and SF so business people, that make as many phone calls as they do email checking are able to do more of both.
Weird how the blackberrys have better reception in these cities. I have a 3G[S] and I live east of. SF and I never have call issues. 2394k down and 265k up. It’s good to me.
This is true in a lot of rural areas as well. When I had a blackberry i never dropped calls and always had really good reception where I live, but as soon as I got the 3Gs that all went away. Im not getting good reception in the same areas and frequently drop calls…Im making that move to the 9700 as well, iPhone is fun but not a true phone….
I meant going away from the iPhone for a crackberry
I don’t know if the 9700 is really a $200 difference over the previous models being sold on Amazon for a PENNY, the Curve 8900, the Storm 9630 and the Bold 9000 http://macspotlight.blogspot.com/2009/11/blackberry-bold-curve-and-storm-for.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxkJiW8Webk
How did you guys get it early i wanted to pick mine up today but not sure how to go about doing so. I know the stores have them in the back. Is there a secret code I have to utter?
Thanks
I’m just waiting for in to get in the store. My sales rep says he will sale it when he gets it. should be fri. but saturday will work for me. Just one day early
My Tmobile 9700 came with 5.0.0.330, picked it up monday on release day, been great so far.
How much better is this unit? How the browsing going to be on the this 9700. I’m with ATT right now, I’ve tested the PalmPre, next in line is the Verizon Droid, as of now I dont see myself giving up my BB. I think its a good phone, I wish the browsing was much better, over all its not bad.
You do NOT have to wait till SUnday. My local AT&T company store in Jacksonville had them in stock and they scanned at the register so my store sold me one. I hear other stores are doing the same so the 22nd is kinda a soft date. Call your local company store and see what happens
I guess I almost turned into a BBWhore myself and fell for the esthetics. It sure is a swanky looking phone though – got distracted by the looks and forgot about the OS and actually using the damn thing. Too bad…nice keyboard, nice looks, nice size, nice battery life…ya, knew that trend wouldn’t last.
BlackBerry Review: http://bit.ly/blackberry-9700-comparisson