Comments on: BlackBerry Prediction: The BlackBerry Pearl will become the best selling BlackBerry yet… http://www.rimarkable.com/blackberry-prediction-the-blackberry-pearl-will-become-the-best-selling-blackberry-yet The Official, Unofficial BlackBerry Weblog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:00:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: misslaura http://www.rimarkable.com/blackberry-prediction-the-blackberry-pearl-will-become-the-best-selling-blackberry-yet#comment-19663 misslaura Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:04:46 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/?p=855#comment-19663 is there a date for the pearl to come out with cingular wireless? is there a date for the pearl to come out with cingular wireless?

]]> By: scott http://www.rimarkable.com/blackberry-prediction-the-blackberry-pearl-will-become-the-best-selling-blackberry-yet#comment-18168 scott Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:58:54 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/?p=855#comment-18168 rich, the leaked memo only says it will be available for $199 see here: http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/08/09/the-blackberry-pearl-8100-gets-a-name/ rich,

the leaked memo only says it will be available for $199

see here: http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/08/09/the-blackberry-pearl-8100-gets-a-name/

]]> By: Rich http://www.rimarkable.com/blackberry-prediction-the-blackberry-pearl-will-become-the-best-selling-blackberry-yet#comment-18165 Rich Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:53:36 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/?p=855#comment-18165 This is kind of off topic but you said that the BlackBerry Pearl will cost $199. I am assuming that this is with a contract. How much will it be without a contract? This is kind of off topic but you said that the BlackBerry Pearl will cost $199. I am assuming that this is with a contract. How much will it be without a contract?

]]> By: Robb Dunewood http://www.rimarkable.com/blackberry-prediction-the-blackberry-pearl-will-become-the-best-selling-blackberry-yet#comment-18164 Robb Dunewood Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:27:53 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/?p=855#comment-18164 BBAdmin, Eventually, all the major carriers will carry the BlackBerry Pearl and the cumulative numbers of it's sales will add up across all carriers. For this reason alone it should jump to number one. Amit, Outside of Public Sector Organizations, I don't think that absolute zero tolerance for camera phones is as widespread as you think. There are more camera phones sold today in North America than camerless phones. BBAdmin,
Eventually, all the major carriers will carry the BlackBerry Pearl and the cumulative numbers of it’s sales will add up across all carriers. For this reason alone it should jump to number one.

Amit,
Outside of Public Sector Organizations, I don’t think that absolute zero tolerance for camera phones is as widespread as you think.

There are more camera phones sold today in North America than camerless phones.

]]> By: Thought http://www.rimarkable.com/blackberry-prediction-the-blackberry-pearl-will-become-the-best-selling-blackberry-yet#comment-18162 Thought Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:03:34 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/?p=855#comment-18162 Amit: as for the camera and corporate security: this phone is aimed at a different market...the general consumer. RIM does not expect this device to be bought up by Fortune 1000 corporations in large units and distributed to their personnel...this is for the guy or girl at the mall or Best Buy who walks in and wants a cool phone... I agree with Robb...this phone should sell extremely well. It's a wonderfully designed device. Amit: as for the camera and corporate security: this phone is aimed at a different market…the general consumer. RIM does not expect this device to be bought up by Fortune 1000 corporations in large units and distributed to their personnel…this is for the guy or girl at the mall or Best Buy who walks in and wants a cool phone…

I agree with Robb…this phone should sell extremely well. It’s a wonderfully designed device.

]]> By: BBAdmin http://www.rimarkable.com/blackberry-prediction-the-blackberry-pearl-will-become-the-best-selling-blackberry-yet#comment-18161 BBAdmin Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:49:48 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/?p=855#comment-18161 I can see it becoming the most commercially recognised BlackBerry as it'll attract the mass consumer, but best selling....wait and see. I can see it becoming the most commercially recognised BlackBerry as it’ll attract the mass consumer, but best selling….wait and see.

]]> By: Aaron http://www.rimarkable.com/blackberry-prediction-the-blackberry-pearl-will-become-the-best-selling-blackberry-yet#comment-18160 Aaron Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:12:52 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/?p=855#comment-18160 I think some people may be turned off by the long loading time of the device. However, this may be the device that enters into the consumer market. Maybe. I think some people may be turned off by the long loading time of the device. However, this may be the device that enters into the consumer market. Maybe.

]]> By: Amit http://www.rimarkable.com/blackberry-prediction-the-blackberry-pearl-will-become-the-best-selling-blackberry-yet#comment-18155 Amit Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:44:34 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/?p=855#comment-18155 I will take that bet... I don't think that the BlackBerry Pearl will do nearly as well as you think it will for the simple fact the most companies have policied forbidding cameraphones on their premises. I will take that bet…

I don’t think that the BlackBerry Pearl will do nearly as well as you think it will for the simple fact the most companies have policied forbidding cameraphones on their premises.

]]> By: Robb Dunewood http://www.rimarkable.com/blackberry-prediction-the-blackberry-pearl-will-become-the-best-selling-blackberry-yet#comment-18152 Robb Dunewood Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:36:52 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/?p=855#comment-18152 Scott, My guess is the T-Mobile, like with the Blackberry 7100t, is paying a pretty penny to be first with the Pearl. From what I hear, it will be out on Cingular shortly after T-Mobile, not that 6 months period of exclusivety crap that Cingular had on the 8700c. It will be a while before it comes out on Verzion but every 7130e user that I have asked said they will get the Pearl as soon as it does. Scott,

My guess is the T-Mobile, like with the Blackberry 7100t, is paying a pretty penny to be first with the Pearl. From what I hear, it will be out on Cingular shortly after T-Mobile, not that 6 months period of exclusivety crap that Cingular had on the 8700c.

It will be a while before it comes out on Verzion but every 7130e user that I have asked said they will get the Pearl as soon as it does.

]]> By: scott http://www.rimarkable.com/blackberry-prediction-the-blackberry-pearl-will-become-the-best-selling-blackberry-yet#comment-18151 scott Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:44:10 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/?p=855#comment-18151 "Unless the hardware on the BlackBerry Pearl has more bugs than a Treo and the software is less reliable than Windows Mobile, RIM can’t help but make a killing off of this device." i would think it's borderline impossible for the coders to have effed up the pearl so much that it would approach the bugginess of a windows mobile device. that wm treo is crap. as for making a killing off of it, i agree, but it won't be from being on tmo at first. i know maybe one person wih a tmo phone - everyone else is vzw or cingular. after briefly looking at the carrier numbers (cing: 50m, vzw: 43m, tmo: 17m), i question whether or not it makes sense to launch it on the guy way back in 3rd place. sure, they'll get some new subs, but not enough to really make a dent in the rankings. could inventory concerns been part of the reason to go with tmo? “Unless the hardware on the BlackBerry Pearl has more bugs than a Treo and the software is less reliable than Windows Mobile, RIM can’t help but make a killing off of this device.”

i would think it’s borderline impossible for the coders to have effed up the pearl so much that it would approach the bugginess of a windows mobile device. that wm treo is crap.

as for making a killing off of it, i agree, but it won’t be from being on tmo at first. i know maybe one person wih a tmo phone - everyone else is vzw or cingular. after briefly looking at the carrier numbers (cing: 50m, vzw: 43m, tmo: 17m), i question whether or not it makes sense to launch it on the guy way back in 3rd place. sure, they’ll get some new subs, but not enough to really make a dent in the rankings. could inventory concerns been part of the reason to go with tmo?

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