BlackBerry lovers,
AT&T beckons. Looks like the just-reviewed
Onyx is heading to AT&T and, as rumored before, so is the
Magnum. We've got no pics of the latter device, but it's being touted here as the "BlackBerry Bold portfolio evolution" and uses the same processor as the Bold. It's also got a HVGA touchscreen, QWERTY pad, quad-band GSM / GRS / EDGE, GPS, and WiFi. Want more? How about an apparently non-flip
Pearl 3G with 3.6 Mbps of HSDPA goodness, Bluetooth, 3.5mm headset jack, trackball, SureType, and aGPS. Rounding out this quartet is the
Gemini, with a 512MHz processor, 256MB flash memory, 128MB RAM, Bluetooth, QVGA LCD, 2 megapixel sans flash, trackball, QWERTY keyboard, 3.5mm headset jack, a microSD slot, possibly GPS, and sadly,
no 3G. There's no release date in sight, but hey, knowing they're on the way is half the battle, right?
posted May 24th 2009 6:54PM
Phones are far and away the biggest weakness in my nerdery.
That said, Engadget's current opening page with about 10 different phone stories fucking rocks.
Thanks for that, guys.
I would have to agree. In the past two years I've had over 7 phones... I'm really excited with all these new phones; pre, htc diamond 2, and the scourge of blackberry phones. How to choose?
Holy smokes, another frickin' BlackBerry. Is this number two or three for this month? RIM's share price should soar on Tuesday. RIM investors just get jizzed every time a new BB is introduced. Apple builds one iPhone a year to about 20 various RIM handsets. No wonder the iPhone can't keep up in sales. This Onyx got some heavy duty hardware. Palm might as well just pack it in with the Pre.
Talk about phone news today. Some really nice news coming through the vine.
It's a real shame there's no pictures of the Magnum... I'd like to see if, as rumored, there is no trackball (or trackpad).
Pearl 3G is also interesting, I can't remember hearing about that before. (Maybe it just got lost in the other 390572390679062 models RIM is creating)
AT&T post in 3...2...1...
so...... today must be "hack into AT&T's secret database and steal tons of restricted info" day, am i right?
Basically. Except I don't think there's any hacking necessary. Not when you have an informant on the inside. Am I right, Engadget?
Wow love the Onyx in all black, looks great!
Hope the T-mo version looks the same.
WTF happened to the keyboard?!?
My thoughts EXACTLY. I think this is an older slide, because the phone all around doesn't look as appealing as the unit Crackberry reviewed.
Looks more like the Curve keys. Aren't those better?
But yeah, it looks different than the one that Crackberry reviewed.
I'm confused about all QWERTY 9xxx bb models with similar look :S
I want a onyx for verizon!
Why the fuck are there so many
The same reason there are so many iPods? Different feature sets and different price points.
I can't wait to find out more about the Magnum. Hopefully it uses the Bold's keyboard and retains all its other features while improving on them.
Gemini has a trackpad. Must be old slides....
That or AT&T "soft launches" these phones by "leaking" them to engadget, et al now. Either way, lots of good phone news for AT&T owners today! The HTC Android phone is really peaking my interest, and the Eon looks like it has some good potential.
dammit, this was a reply to @trevor.
engadget commenting rules! :)
When the F is T-Mobile going to get a decent Blackberry? We're still stuck with the 8900... Yo, boys in pink... 3G? GPS?
Enough with the Google, cupcake, android crap... call the guys up north and get a damned decent Blackberry on line already!
My tmo 8900 is too sexy. I have wifi+uma+edge(which is considerable fast on tmo, and only a little slower than att 3g), and i use it all day.
My GPS works flawlessly too, so I dont know what YOURE complaining about.
After getting repeatedly scooped by Crackberry on the Gemini and Onyx, is nice to see you back on the game Engadget!
@ oxfdblue -
The 8900 actually does have GPS. But I completely agree - a 3G BlackBerry for T-Mobile is *way* overdue.
thats not an actual onyx, thats a javelin with a black chrome bezel, mine looks just like that, maybe you should actually look at the pictures of a real one......http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/10/blackberry-onyx-in-the-wild/