Something tells us this isn't the
most anticipated yet-to-be-announced BlackBerry at the moment, but RIM's all about choice -- and, yeah, it remains to be seen who's going to choose the Gemini 8325 when it ends up shipping. The supposed
Curve 8300 successor (we thought that was the
8900, silly us) will mope along with the same EDGE data that powers the old model, suggesting that it'll hang out on the low end of the BlackBerry stable -- especially by the time it's actually released, whenever that happens to be. It's rumored to run BlackBerry OS 5.0 and feature a QVGA display, 802.11b / g / n (yes, n), and a meager 2 megapixel camera, so needless to say, the
Bolds of the world can rest easy for a while longer that their dominance in the QWERTY GSM BlackBerry game isn't in question just yet.
posted Mar 17th 2009 2:16AM
No trackball! =O
clearly there is a law that all blackberry's must have the same form factor.
Are we sure that this puppy's an actual one to be released? Perhaps it was a canned model? Looks like its about to compete with Peek or something...
what's the point?
How can it be possible that all BBs must look always the same?
I did own one, about 10 years ago, and it was nearly identical to the newest models RIM shipped this year.
I hoped that the Storm would herald a new styling direction for BB, but it seems that it was just an half hearted tentative to cash in on the touch screen craze.
I know that RIM can count on a solid fan base which includes the coolest Prez since G. Washinton, but how long can you go on selling variations on same theme?
In my opinion RIM (Research In Motion) should change its name to RIB (Research In Boredom)
Your 10 year old Blackberry looked the same?
Firstly, by that loose definition of sameness - ALL qwerty handsets ever built look the same. No surprise as they have qwerty keyboards with a screen above them. In fact, I am surprised by all of the recent Win Mobile and Nokia devices that look so similar to current Blackberries. But given the basics of the qwerty form factor, the curve looks nothing like your 10 year old Blackberry unless you are blind / a simpleton.
Secondly, what about the Pearl, Pearl Flip - and the Storm as you mention. Or the 7100/7130 series that was their first experiment with candy-bar phone designs? I'd say that for a relatively small smartphone maker, they have been pretty busy experimenting with designs and form factors during the last few years. They were late to do so (didn't get serious about nice looking devices until 2006) - but they have been pretty savvy on the design front these days.
If it's EDGE-only, why does the screen say "Radio 3GPP?"
3GPP is a mobile phone video format.
Spy sappin muh blackberry!
BB is so disappointing.....
Thats absolute b*ll*cks. the screen is bent? so is the writing on screen, the trackball is umm a track abyss!!! and the bit around the screen and the top 4 buttons looks like a bold's but done in negative so its white. oh and the keyboard is from a late curve. absolute rubbish if i might say so may self.
Yeah this is a fake.. bad photoshop. This would be a step backwards for them in design.