I don’t know if you guys remember this, but, John Mayer was one of the first people walking around with a BlackBerry Bold. He even blogged about unboxing it when he got it back in mid-May.
Well, it would appear that Mr. Mayer has moved on from the Bold and on to the BlackBerry Storm.
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For some strange reason than I cannot even begin to comprehend, AT&T decided to release the BlackBerry Bold on today of all days. There is that little presidential election taking that is expected to have well over 130 million people casting ballots, so, good luck AT&T on capturing any news cycles beyond gadget blogs… Brilliant marketing move…
Even though the BlackBerry Bold was just released today, it really isn’t the new BlackBerry everyone is talking about. The BlackBerry Storm is the device that really has people excited and rumor has it that it will be out in the next couple of weeks or so. Don’t get me wrong, the BlackBerry Bold will do extremely well on AT&T, but, I think that missed marketing opportunity and price will keep it from having BlackBerry Pearl / BlackBerry Curve type appeal.
That being said, I believe that if Verizon is smart about things, the BlackBerry Storm will cost less than the BlackBerry Bold. Waaaay Less… And if it does it will absolutely sell like mad.
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Verizon BlackBerry Pearl 8130 and BlackBerry Curve 8330 users may be happy to know that BlackBerry Device Software v4.5 is now officially avaialble for download.
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Don’t worry about getting the BlackBerry Bold today. It will still be there tomorrow. Your right to vote in this election, however, won’t be.
Vote!!!
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I case you won’t be sitting in front of your TV or computer following the polls in today’s election, Viigo has added real-time election results feed to their popular BlackBerry RSS news reader.
If you don’t already have you can get it here. You definitely can’t beat the price…
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Just like they said it would be, after the two or three other times that they said it would be, the BlackBerry Bold is now officially on sale on AT&T’s website.
As I’ve said before, the AT&T Bold is expensive. It will cost you 400 bucks up front but they do give you a $100 mail-in rebate that most people willing to shell out $399 will forget to mail in.
I won’t be surprised at all to see another $100 instant rebate or something tacked on to the Bold before the holidays…
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In case anyone in the UK planning to buy the GSM-only BlackBerry Storm from Vodafone was wondering, the FCC has just cleared the device that so many AT&T and T-Mobile subscribers wish they could get.
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AT&T Mobile CEO, Ralph De La Vega, was on CNBC this morning talking about tomorrow’s relesase fo the much delayed BlackBerry Bold.
De La Vega said AT&T is projecting record service revenues from the new BlackBerry around the world. He said the device is already generating record revenues in Japan and in other countries where it was introduced. He continued, “BlackBerry Bold is so powerful and fast, we are expecting it to replace PC use in many cases, and data revenues will far exceed the AT&T’s subsidy cost of marketing the device.”
It looks like AT&T is expecting to make money hand over fist with the BlackBerry Bold…
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