Sprint announced yesterday that they will carry the recently announced BlackBerry Curve 9350 starting September 9th for $79.99 on a 2-year contract. Check out the press release after the break…
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It looks like the Sprint BlackBerry Torch 9850, which, for a brief time was available for pre-order at Walmart for $99.99 on a new two year service plan ($141.99 on a 2-year extension), is quite popular. The full touch screen BlackBerry 7 device is backordered after just one day.
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Sprint announced last week that the company has canceled plans to carry the Sprint 4G BlackBerry PlayBook which would have run on Sprint’s highspeed WiMAX network. Paget Alves, president of Sprint’s business markets group, said “It’s an interesting concept, it just hasn’t caught on with business customers as much as they would like.” Although the cancellation of the Sprint 4G BlackBerry seems like another black eye for RIM, I believe this decision has a lot more to do with Sprint’s bad bet on WiMAX when the rest of earth is going to LTE.
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When Sprint officially announced that they would be carry both the BlackBerry Bold 9930 and the BlackBerry Torch 9850 starting this fall we thought they actually meant they would launch in the fall. It looks like they meant “like in a couple of weeks”.
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After RIM’s announcement introducing new BlackBerry 7 smartphones this morning, Sprint followed up with a press release of their own confirming that they will carry both the BlackBerry Bold 9930 and the BlackBerry Torch 9850 on their network. What was interesting about’s Sprint’s announcement, however, is that they won’t offer any new BlackBerry 7 smartphones until fall.
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Even though the touch BlackBerry Bold 9900 was the only next-generation officially announced back at BlackBerry World 2011 this past May, several new BlackBerry 7 devices or in the works, and, it looks like they will be officially announced tommorow, July 26th at an event RIM is calling #BB7FanNight.
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Sprint has officially updated their branded version of the BlackBerry Bold 9650 to OS 6.0.0.600. If you haven’t been installing unofficial versions of BlackBerry 6 on your device, you may want to check out OS 6.0.0.600, as, it is a fairly significant bump beyond OS 6.0.0.415, Sprint’s last official update. OS 6.0.0.600, of course is a free download, and you can pick it up from the link below.
Download OS 6.0.0.600 for the Sprint BlackBerry Bold 9650
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This really shouldn’t come as too much of a shocker now that we have a bit of a better understanding of what BlackBerry Bridge is, does, and doesn’t do (BlackBerry Bridge doesn’t provide internet connectivity), however, Sprint is going to charge for Bluetooth tethering which will give your BlackBerry PlayBook internet connectivity via your BlackBerry device’s CDMA broadband connection.
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I know that all the news over on Verizon right now is about the iPhone 4 which will be hitting their network on Feb. 1oth, but, contrary to popular belief, most Verizon BlackBerry users won’t be switching over to iPhone (although quite a few might). It has been a while since a high end CDMA BlackBerry device hit Verizon shelves and there a lot of BlackBerry Storm, Tour, Storm2, and even Bold 9650 users that are looking to move on to a higher end BlackBerry device.
It usually takes about 6 months or so before a CDMA variant of a device comes out after its GSM counterpart which means we should see a BlackBerry Torch ready for Sprint and Verizon sometime around the middle of next month. Let’s hope that, like with the BlackBerry Bold 9650 over the Bold 9700, the CDMA BlackBerry Torch has a little more under the hood. Just being on AT&T was enough to make me return my BlackBerry Torch, but, I wasn’t terribly impressed with the hardware either as the device just seemed under powered.
Both Verizon and Sprint are long over due for a higher end BlackBerry, and even though the Torch was a little less than expected when initially released, I’d gladly use it seeing how I am one of those corporate BlackBerry users that will be on the BlackBerry platform for the foreseeable future…
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