Research in Motion and AT&T are holding a joint press event next Tuesday, August 3rd, in NYC where it is expected that the BlackBerry 9800 Slider running BlackBerry 6 will be officially announced.
The BlackBerry 9800 Slider is currently rumored to hit AT&T on August 15th. If that indeed turns out to be the launch date, it will be interesting to see the type of marketing that AT&T and RIM put behind the 9800.
[Via BGR]
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BBLeaks is reporting that BlackBerry 6 and the BlackBerry 9800 Slider are now supported in BlackBerry App World. Rumor has it that the BlackBerry Slider will launch on AT&T August 15th, so, it makes sense that support for the device and BlackBerry 6 would start to appear.
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According to John Albright of the BlackBerry Paterners Fund, the BlackBerry 9800 Slider, which has yet to be officially named, or, even announced by Research in Motion, will launch on AT&T August 15th. The first BlackBerry device to sport a touch-screen and a slide down physical keyboard is suspected to be the first BlackBerry that will run RIM’s highly anticipated BlackBerry 6 operating system.
[Via MobileBeat]
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If this image is not Photoshopped, and, there is no reason to believe that it is, it may be the first picture of the BlackBerry Bold 9800 Slider in the wild.
See what CrackBerry forums member GoBlue has to say about this photo… after the jump…
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TheCellularGuru.com was able to get their hands on live shots of the BlackBerry Bold 9800 Slider running the new WebKit based BlackBerry Browser. If BlackBerry 6 has any legs at all, this device will be a big hit.
[More pics after the jump]
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According to Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam, Research in Motion may be among the first manufacturers next year to offer a device on Verizon’s new Long Term Evolution (LTE) network that they are rolling out later this year.
Verizon released a video of their LTE in action at a Boston Pizza shop last week and the network saw download speeds of 8.55 Mbps. A BlackBerry with that kind of speed begs for streaming video, so, it will be interesting to see if the first LTE BlackBerry will have a full touchscreen like on the BlackBerry Storm or like the new BlackBerry 9800 Slider rumored to be coming out on AT&T in June.
[Source MSNBC via BerryReview]
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