April 4th, 2008
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Are you one of those Nextel BlackBerry users who refuse to switch over to the Sprint side of the house or over to a reputable wireless company who actually has come out with new BlackBerrys in the passed 3 or 4 years? Well, if you are, we may have news for your ears.
This past Tuesday at CITA Sprint CEO Dan Hesse announced that they are coming out with a new Wi-Fi enabled, iDen BlackBerry on the Nextel network later this year. I must have missed this earlier in the week, however, it may be just a little bit too late for this to have much impact.
I know that a lot of Nextel BlackBerry users waited as long as they could for a new iDen device to come out, however, it has been 3 years since the BlackBerry 7100i came out and around 5 since the BlackBerry 7520 came out.
Just think, since the BlackBerry 7100i came out, GSM and CDMA carriers have had the BlackBerry 8700, BlackBerry Pearl, the BlackBerry 8800, and the BlackBerry Curve devices come out in various configurations. Sprint has been saying for years that they weren’t going to come out with another Nextel BlackBerry and finally convinced their remaining BlackBerry users to switch.
The problem is that those Nextel BlackBerry users didn’t switch to Sprint. They switched to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. I guess that with all the trouble that Sprint/Nextel is having that they need to get those 37 remaining 7100i users some new gear for fear of losing them to another telecom as well.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on April 4th, 2008 with 16 comments.
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Rant Alert…
Can someone for the love of all things tell me why I cannot store contacts on my BlackBerry’s frigging memory card?
I am one of those people that has a ridiculously large address book. If think that I will ever call your number more than one time I see no reason not to create a contact for you. When you can go out an buy a 2 gig memory card for under $30 why should you ever have to make a decision as to if the lawn service guy or curb side bulk trash pick up is more important to you simply because your BlackBerry doesn’t have room for both.
So, once again, I sit here like I do every 2 or 3 months trying to go through all of my contacts and figure out which ones I don’t really need on my BlackBerry because of its severely limited internal memory.
This is so frustrating…
Written by Robb Dunewood on April 4th, 2008 with 22 comments.
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In case you haven’t heard, the Indian government said that they would put a ban on BlackBerrys (BlackBerry data that is) if Research in Motion didn’t provide Indian based telecoms that support the BlackBerry a means to monitor traffic being sent and received on RIM’s secure BlackBerry network. BlackBerry data is encrypted which prevents India’s Union Home Ministry from monitoring messages sent on the devices.
Research in Motion is, however, expected to provide a solution early next week, that will ease the concerns and meet the 15 day deadline set by the Indian government back in March.
“BlackBerry is cooperating and they are saying they will come up with a solution to the issue any day now”, said T.V. Ramachandran, director general of the Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI). “I am hopeful of seeing a solution even before 9th, I mean some time early next week.”
India currently only has about 400,000 BlackBerry users, however, the country is one of the fastest growing emerging markets and the BlackBerry is poised to do very well there so long as RIM can address the governments security concerns.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on April 4th, 2008 with 4 comments.
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It has been a good week and a heck of a passed three days for Research in Motion.
Fiscal year results that have almost doubled over the previous year especially when the iPhone has come on as strong as it has is impressive.
With the BlackBerry 9000 and maybe even a touch screen bearing BlackBerry coming out later this year, it will be exciting to see how RIM does this fiscal year.
Written by Robb Dunewood on April 4th, 2008 with 7 comments.
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