Blackberry 8800 now on Cingular
By Thomas Ricker 
posted February 21st 2007 7:47AM
posted February 21st 2007 7:47AM
Straighten your ties and button your suit jackets, RIM's promiscuous debutante -- the Blackberry 8800 -- is up and dancin' on on Cingular's website. $500 list, or $300 after $50 mail-in rebate and 2-year contract, the 8800 brings everything we expected: quad-band EDGE, GPS, microSD expansion, Bluetooth 2.0, push-to-talk suport, and 5-hours talk / 24-days standby in a 0.55-inch device weighing just 4.73-ounces. 3G data? No. WiFi? Not this time. For that we'll have to hold tight for the anticipated mid-year launch of the 8820. [Thanks, President and everyone who sent this in]
Anyone have this yet? Does the Cingular/AT&T MediaNet Plan work on this unit for SMS, MMS, and Internet? or does it have to have the BlackBerry Internet Service in order to use the listed functions? I have one of the other model BlackBerry and without high priced package from BlackBerry/Cingular they don't work. Anyone?
I will wait till Sprint gets the phone, Sprints phone as modem is the best and by the time sprint get the phone it will have a camera my 7130e does all the things the 8800 does and the 7130 is easier to carry ...and its paid for!
Al, From all my experience with Cingular, you need the BB plan for the internet to work. Has anyone gotten this yet? I'm trying to figure out how much it is going to cost with a one year contract, and nobody at Cingular seems to know
I know the phone is not supposed to have a camera... but go to the Cingular site and compare it to the Pearl... It says they both have a camera!!!
I have the Pearl and wasn't planning on switching, but if the camera is actually there I just may have to!!!
Perhaps they traded the addition of the camera for the lack of WiFi??
Anyone actually seen the phone??
There is no Camera. If the website states that there is a camera then it is in error.
The device has to have a BB plan, no other data plan will work.
Yet Sadly, still no camera. Why Rim...