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2011 CDMA BlackBerry Roadmap Leaked!

January 28, 2011 by Robb Dunewood 4 Comments

Crackberry has gotten a pretty big scoop on all the devices that Research in Motion has planned to be released in 2011 on CDMA networks like Sprint, Verizon, and Alltel. We’ve already started hearing rumors about some of these devices, but, this is a roadmap with a few devices we didn’t know about as well as expected release time frames.

First up we have the BlackBerry Curve 9330. No big deal here, as, this device has been around for a while. In Q2 it looks like RIM will be releasing a CDMA BlackBerry PlayBook. We know that Sprint will be releasing a WiMax PlayBook in the summer and have heard rumors about a 3G and even an LTE variant coming in Q2, but, this is the first time that we’ve heard of a CDMA PlayBook.

Q3 will be big for CDMA BlackBerry Devices. First we should see the BlackBerry Montana, a CDMA version of the BlackBerry Dakota. We should also see the BlackBerry Monaco, a 1.2 GHz BlackBerry Storm successor. We should see the next CDMA BlackBerry Curve, the Sedona, in late Q3 or early Q4. Wrapping up the year we could see the BlackBerry Malibu, a full touchscreen BlackBerry Curve like device that we hadn’t heard of before.

All in all, it could be a big year for RIM on the CDMA device front. It’s unfortunate that most of these devices won’t come out until the second half of the year, but, that is always the case when it comes to new devices. We wish that the would be released when first hear about them…

Rumor: AT&T May Skip Past The BlackBerry Bold 9780 And Go Straight To The BlackBerry Dakota

January 24, 2011 by Robb Dunewood 4 Comments

Many AT&T BlackBerry users have been wondering what the delay on the AT&T branded version of the BlackBerry Bold 9780 is seeing how the device has been available on T-Mobile since mid November of last year. Rumor has it, however, that AT&T may skip over the BlackBerry Bold 9780 and go straight to the, yet to be officially announced, BlackBerry Dakota…

Fudzilla is reporting that its sources are stating that AT&T is move the last of it’s BlackBerry Bold 9700 inventory and that it has no intention on ordering more.

The new Bold, or Dakota if you will, is a bit closer than we were first led to believe. Apparently from the whispers we hear, AT&T could have the new member of the Bold family on the shelf for sale as soon as early or mid-spring, but significant quantity is likely not expected at the store and authorized reseller level till very early summer.

If the release scale for the BlackBerry Dakota, the first QWERTY BlackBerry with a fixed touchscreen, is accurate the rumor that AT&T may forgo the BlackBerry 9780 seems very plausible. This seems to be the route that Verizon took with the BlackBerry Storm 9750, deciding to hold off on the device possibly for the rumored BlackBerry Monaco.