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Who Does Cingular Really Love?

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Do you remember when Steve Jobs officially announced the iPhone back in January? Cingular had information about the iPhone, them being the exclusive carrier and all, moments after Jobs’ Macworld 2007 keynote introducing the iPhone began. Up until last week or so, the picture of the iPhone you see above was the one plastered across Cingular’s website… All this for a device that isn’t coming out until June and, at the time, hadn’t even received clearance from the government to be sold in the US.

Who does Cingular really love?

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BlackBerry8800.com is Live

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It would only make sense that with the official announcement of the BlackBerry 8800 the launch of BlackBerry8800.com would happen around the same time.

The home for Research in Motion’s most highly anticipated device since, well, the last highly anticipated device has that BlackBerryPearl.com BlackBerry.com look and feel to it.

Go have a look…

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The BlackBerry 8800 Has Been Officially Announced

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After months of speculation, rumors, and conflicting feelings, the BlackBerry 8800 has been officially announced today at the 3GSM Conference in Barcelona.

The BlackBerry 8800 smartphone offers another winning combination of superior hardware, software and service embodied by an extremely elegant industrial design,” said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at Research In Motion. “We spent a tremendous amount of effort refining the BlackBerry 8800, inside and out, and that effort will be evident to customers. From the premium finish to the vivid screen to the exceptional sound quality and the unmatched usability, the BlackBerry 8800 is a standout choice for mobile professionals.

Read the full press release…

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What Is So Great About The BlackBerry 8800?

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I have been thinking about the BlackBerry 8800 a bit lately seeing how it is about to come out in a week and a half. It has trackball, is a bit thinner than the BlackBerry 8700, and has removable media. Other than that, what is so great about the BlackBerry 8800?

Now that the release of the 8800 is near, I don’t really find myself all that excited about it. Even though the 8800 isn’t coming out on Verizon just yet, I am not so sure that I would upgrade to it if it was. In fact I know that I wouldn’t if they were offering the same cameraless version that will first come out on Cingular.

Are you going to get a BlackBerry 8800 when it first comes out. If so, why? Let us know via the comments.

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Cingular BlackBerry 8800 Coming Feb. 20th

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BlackBerry Forums moderator Stinsonddog is confirming via BlackBerry Cool and BlackBerry Forums that he has received an invitation to an exclusive event hosted by Research in Motion co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie as well as the president of Cingular’s Business Markets Group, Kent Mathy on February 20th.

You are invited to join Research in Motion® and Cingular, now the new AT&T, as we reveal new solutions for enterprise productivity and extend the service, expertise and applications that you have come to expect from us.

Mark February 20, 2007 on your calendar for this exclusive event.

It looks like RIM and Cingular are holding launch events much like they did with the release of the BlackBerry 8700. Stinsonddog says that there will be events in New York on the 20th followed by an event in San Francisco on the 22nd.

Stinsonddog isn’t posting the link in the email he received, however, is saying that the picture of the BlackBerry featured on the launch event webpage header is named 8800c.

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BlackBerry 8800 Like Device Coming To Verizon In Q2

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Rumor has it that Verizon will get a hybrid CDMA / GSM BlackBerry built on the BlackBerry 8800 series device in Q2. Like the BlackBerry 8800, the new Verizon BlackBerry, code named Cyclone, will have a media player, removable media, AGPS and Bluetooth 2.0.

Details are still a bit scarce. All we really know is that the BlackBerry Cyclone will look like a BlackBerry 8800 and come out sometime in the Spring.

If this rumor is true, I cannot wait.

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