Indosat and Research in Motion yesterday introduced the BlackBerry Curve, and the BlackBerry 8800 to Indosat customers in Indonesia.
Our cooperation with RIM is part of our strategy and commitment to continuously enhance our service to customers,” said Mr. Guntur S. Siboro, Marketing Director at Indosat. “We are excited at the launch of these smartphones, as they are instrumental in providing the rich mobile experience that today’s mobile users are seeking.
Read the full press release here…
So, now that both the BlackBerry Curve and BlackBerry 8800 are available on both major GSM carriers in the United States, which one would you choose if you were in the market for a new full QWERTY keyboard BlackBerry?
Personally, the only reason that I can see buying a BlackBerry 88xx device is because your job, or places you need to go to do your job, prohibit camera phones. Not long ago, however, many BlackBerry users were dead set against digital cameras in their devices.
Has the tide changed? Costs aside, if you had to pick one, which BlackBerry would you go with?
Is it just me or does the BlackBerry 88whatever kind of seem like the BlackBerry you get when the BlackBerry you really want isn’t available to you?
We just ran a very scientific poll where we asked RIMarkable readers which of the trackball bearing BlackBerrys they like and, with the exception of one person, the very few that said BlackBerry 88xx qualified their response with because it is what is available to them right now.
The BlackBerry Curve and the BlackBerry Pearl ran away with it. Could this be why RIM is coming out with additional hardware configurations of the same devices? Usually we just see a GSM model followed by a CDMA model and then RIM moves on to the next model all together. Look, however, at all the different variations of RIM’s latest BlackBerrys.
Rumor has it that T-Mobile has pulled the their branded version of the BlackBerry 8800 from their upgrade program. Could this mean that they are making room for the Wi-Fi enabled BlackBerry 8820?
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BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion, along with AT&T, Antenna Software, and CRM Media, will host 4 free CRM seminars at various locations throughout the U.S. and the attendees will receive free BlackBerry 8800 devices.
The convergence of field sales applications and the wireless revolution is vital for todays enterprises,” said Sheryl Kingstone, director of Enterprise Research Group, Yankee Group and keynote speaker at the events. “Enterprises can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the sales force by implementing mobile solutions that deliver on the vision of a 360-degree view of the customer.
If you cannot make one of the free CRM seminars in person an online webinar will be held August 1st from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Free BlackBerry 8800s, unfortunately, are only available to participants able to attend one of the four dates that follow in person.
- New Brunswick, N.J. — July 17, Heldrich Hotel, 9 a.m. – noon
- Boston — July 19, Langham Hotel, 9 a.m. – noon
- Chicago — July 24, Hotel Monaco, 9 a.m. – noon
- San Francisco — July 26, Mission Bay Conference Center, 9 a.m. – noon
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PC World has just come out with it’s list of the 100 Best Products of 2007 and somehow the BlackBerry 8800 was rated #5 just after the Nintendo Wii at #3 and Verizon’s FiOS at #4.
I must say that I am scratching my head on this one. I don’t think that the BlackBerry 8800 is the 5th best BlackBerry out right now let alone the 5th best product. I do admit, however, that I have very large hands which makes using the BlackBerry 8800 keyboard very difficult. When I tested the 8800 I found myself wishing that it had a stylus. My impressions of the BlackBerry 8800 pretty much went down hill from there.
The Intel Core 2 Duo at #2 and Google Apps Premier Edition at #1 round out the top 5. You can see the entire list here.
Now that T-Mobile is carrying the BlackBerry 8800 everyone is doing reviews of it as though it is significantly different than it’s AT&T cousin. To make a long story short the T-Mobile BlackBerry 8800 is just as average as the AT&T version and has all the same issues such as:
- Muffled call quality
- Keys too close together
- Crappy Media Player
- No Wi-Fi
I am sure that there are other issues listed in the T-Mobile 8800 review over on ZDNet.
T-Mobile BlackBerry 8800
Our friends across the pond over at airtime manager in the UK have been testing the pre-release version of the BlackBerry Curve for a while now and they’ve put up a full review here. One of the things that stands out to me is just how much smaller the the BlackBerry Curve is than the BlackBerry 8800.
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I was just taking a look at the T-Mobile BlackBerry 8800 that was officially announced last Friday and released today on the T-Mobile site and I have to say that I am a bit surprised at the price. T-Mobile has the BlackBerry 8800 listed at $349.99 after a $200 instant rebate. This is $50 more than what Cingular has their 8800 listed for and I’ve seen the the Cingular model as low as $99.
T-Mobile BlackBerry 8800