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Here is little something something we had in our inbox this morning. Is the Sprint BlackBerry Curve going to ship tomorrow? There are so many rumors floating around right now that it is really hard to tell. All I know is that I knew that Sprint wouldn’t get the Curve before Verizon.
It looks like someone over at BGR had this in their inbox this morning as well. Maybe this rumor is true… I guess we will find out tomorrow…
Depending on which rumors your follow, the Verizon BlackBerry Curve 8330 may only be a week or two away. In my opinion, it has been the most eagerly anticipated BlackBerry of all time. Our “How Long Will It Take Verizon To Release The BlackBerry Curve?” post has gone well over the 1000 comment mark and about 20% of all searches on RIMarkable about the Verizon BlackBerry Curve.
Do you think that all this will translate into individual device sales unlike anything that we’ve seen on a particular BlackBerry model before?
We seem to keep going back and forth on the release date of the Sprint BlackBerry Curve 8330.
When Sprint first announced the BlackBerry Curve they said that it would come out in April. Then we heard a lot of rumors that the launch of the Sprint Curve had been delayed, possibly all the way into June. Just the other day Engadget Mobile reported that the Sprint Curve indeed would ship in April. And today, we see that the device won’t be available via the Sprint Store until June 1st.
Now, The Sprint Store technically isn’t Sprint, but, an authorized Sprint reseller. One could gather, however, that if Sprint’s authorized resellers aren’t carrying the device until June, the device probably isn’t coming out until June.
What do you think?
There have been a lot of rumors floating around that the release of the Sprint BlackBerry Curve had been delayed, however, the folks of at Engadget Mobile have put those rumors to rest. According to their sources at Sprint the BlackBerry Curve 8330 is still set to make its debut here in the States this month.
Engadget didn’t have an exact date but we predict that the Sprint BlackBerry Curve will ship within the next week and a half.
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Bell becomes the second North American carrier to launch the BlackBerry Curve 8330 and man, do they make you pay for it if you don’t go with a contract.
The Bell BlackBerry Curve 8830 starts at $549.95 with no contract and goes down from there to $249.95 if you sign your name on the dotted line.
We are still waiting for the BlackBerry Curve 8330 to make its debut down here in the States, however, rumor has it that Sprint may release their branded version as early as next week.
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The Verizon BlackBerry Curve Is Officially Here!
CITA Wireless starts up in Las Vegas tomorrow and Verizon was first in line to make one of several pre-show handset announcements.
You’ve got to give it to Verizon on this one. They pretty much kept the release of the BlackBerry Curve 8330 under wraps. Most people thought that it would come out announce before the Sprint version, however, only few thought that it would come out be announced in March.
The announcement of the BlackBerry Curve 8330 will, unless RIM announces a BlackBerry with a touch-screen, will dominate the BlackBerry news until WES. I am going to try to hold off until then on getting one of these, hoping that that Verizon will announce it in black. I don’t know, however, if I am going to be able to wait that long.
Read the full press release here…
I am not sure why, but, there is something that I like about the BlackBerry Curve in all black.
As many of you may have already heard, there are some pretty solid rumors that the CDMA BlackBerry Curve 8330 from Sprint will hit their network on April 20th.
We just talked about an April launch of the Sprint BlackBerry Curve and posted a live picture of a test device last week. I have to admit, however, that the screen grab from BBGeeks of what looks to be marketing material from Sprint, the all black version looks kind of sweet.
I know that there are a lot of RIMarkable readers out there that are waiting for the CDMA version of the BlackBerry Curve, the BlackBerry Curve 8330, to come out as patiently as they can. Thanks to the quick eye and quick thinking of Howard Forums member blackdogs377, who nabbed a screen shot of the BlackBerry Curve 8330 on Telus’ website, we can report that the much anticipated release may be very near.
We’ve been hearing a lot of rumors that the BlackBerry Curve 8830 may actually come out this month. Even though I am on the record for stating that I didn’t think it would debut before May, I hope this is one of those times that I am wrong.
Telus has pulled the promotion for the BlackBerry Curve 8830 from there site, however, whenever there is smoke, there is usually fire. As it’s always been, it’s just a matter of time before the 8830 debuts, however, it’s looking like it will be a smaller amount of time than what I, at least, thought that it would be.