Nextel

 
The BG does it again, this time getting his hands on the ‘08′ - ‘09′ Sprint roadmap which tells us the that a new iDEN bearing BlackBerry called the BlackBerry 8350i that supports Nextel Direct Connect will appear in Q4.

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Just over a year ago we told you that if you were on Nextel and wanted a new BlackBerry that you needed to switch carriers, however, about 6 months or so ago, we started hearing rumors about a new Nextel BlackBerry running on the iDEN PTT network that would come sometime between this fall and [...]

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One of the questions asked here on RIMarkable quite often is when is the next BlackBerry coming out for Nextel?
Let me first say that I don’t have any rumors to leak, however, my gut tells me that if you want a new BlackBerry and you’re still on Nextel’s network, you are SOL. I seriously [...]

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Rumor has it that in the Fall of next year, Sprint will be releasing a new BlackBerry that will bridge PTT networks between Nextel and Sprint subscribers. One of the main reasons that Nextel subscribers have been so slow to move off the iDEN network over to Sprint’s CDMA network is because of imcompatability [...]

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As I look back over the year, one of the questions that was asked quite often by RIMarkable readers was when is the BlackBerry xxxx coming to Nextel? The last Nextel BlackBerry to hit the street was the BlackBerry 7100i over a year ago back in Q4 and many sources say that Sprint / [...]

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I have a question for those BlackBerry insiders that read RIMarkable from time to time. Have we seen the last BlackBerry device on Nextel? Although they haven’t admitted it yet, Sprint seems to be slowly but surely phasing out the iDen network even though there are hoards of corporate subscribers who rely on [...]

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Now that the $35 billion merger of Sprint and Nextel is complete, the new combined company will start to trade on the NYSE with the stock symbol S.  The real question is, however, whether or not RIMarkable should combine the Sprint and Nextel categories into one new Sprint Nextel category?

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Five GPS-powered productivity tools, formerly only available on Nextel Assisted-GPS handsets, are now available for the BlackBerry 7520.
The productivity tools include:

ArcSoft Comet Tracker — which uses GPS to locate and track workers, maintain electronic timesheets, and dispatch tasks
Corrigo Connect — a wireless web-based work-order and dispatch management solution for service organizations with installation, maintenance and [...]

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