Remember a little over a month ago John Mayer was able to get his hands on a BlackBerry Bold?
Well, it would appear that he has switched back to a BlackBerry Curve.
I wonder what made him change?
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The Boy Genius is reporting that two “high level sources” have confirmed that the BlackBerry Bold is delayed until August on AT&T due to software issues with battery life and overheating.
It doesn’t look like these issues are affecting releases of the BlackBerry Bold up in Canada seeing how Rogers has already sent out BlackBerry Bold Launch Party invitations. AT&T hasn’t even certified the BlackBerry Bold so it is going to be a while before it comes out down here.
Research in Motion hasn’t set an official date for the release of the BlackBerry Bold on AT&T so I doubt that they will say that they’ve pushed it back on todays earnings call. I would be will to bet, however, that someone is going to ask about it so it will be interesting to hear what they will say.
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I just received an email from Research in Motion about the BlackBerry Bold. Unfortunately there wasn’t a release date listed, however, there was a link to this nifty BlackBerry Bold Video.
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Word on the street is that the Rogers will will launch the BlackBerry Bold up in Canada on July 15th. BlackBerry Cool reader RogersDude69 is reporting that Rogers is holding a series of BlackBerry Launch Events for business executives.
One could presume that this launch will be for a device that actually has been announced so we believe that it is a pretty good bet that the it will be the BlackBerry Bold.
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We aren’t quite sure how long it has been there but the BlackBerry Bold has made its way onto the AT&T web site. Unfortunately, AT&T hasn’t narrowed down a release date beyond later this year. We, however, are prepared to say that we are certain that the AT&T BlackBerry Bold will be released closer to today than to December 31st.
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The iPhone Blog, sister site to CrackBerry.com, has just released a video comparing the iPhone vs. the BlackBerry Bold. I have to admit that it is pretty fair even though the review is done by someone in love with the iPhone enough to start a blog about it.
Come on, can you imagine someone so into a mobile device that they would set up a web site dedicated to it and spend countless hours talking about it?
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As many CDMA BlackBerry users know, Verizon, Sprint, and other CDMA wireless providers generally don’t get new BlackBerry devices for up to a year after they are released on GSM carriers. There are rumors on the street, however, that point to a CDMA version of the BlackBerry Bold coming out on Verizon and Sprint not a year after AT&T, but a couple months later.
That’s right boys and girls… Verizon and Sprint may get a CDMA based BlackBerry Bold by summer’s end. Infosync World is reporting that the BlackBerry Bold will hit Verizon and Sprint in September of this year. That is just 2 months or so passed the release date of the BlackBerry Bold on AT&T.
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John Mayer posted unboxing pictures of his pre-release BlackBerry Bold on his blog yesterday and has already been spotted out and about with it.
[Via Celebrity BlackBerry Sightings]
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I don’t think that too many people that follow Research in Motion would be surprised if we told you that AT&T would be the first U.S. based wireless carrier to offer the BlackBerry Bold which was just officially announced earlier today. We can expect to see the Bold ship anywhere from within the next several weeks to, more probably, the next several months.
For me, the book is still out on the BlackBerry Bold. Although I’ve heard that the keyboard may not be quite bad as that found on the BlackBerry 8800 series devices, those keys look awfully crammed together. I cannot wait to here some of the reviews on the BlackBerry Bold keyboard that will come out of WES this week.
Just like we know that AT&T often gets new BlackBerrys first, Verizon usually gets them darn near last. Research in Motion staggers development of CDMA versions of new BlackBerry devices often by as much as a year after their GSM counterparts. We’ve already been asked the question “When will Verizon get the BlackBerry Bold?” at least a dozen times. All that I can say with a fair amount of certainty is that it will be a while.
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