If you thought RIM had completely run out of ways to mildly remix its existing portrait QWERTY formula, think again -- the transition from trackball to optical pad has opened up a whole new world of exciting opportunities, and it looks like the venerable
Curve 8900 might be the next model to get the refresh.
BerryReview appears to have scored a shot of the alleged 8910 in its most natural environment -- a desk calendar -- preserving the Curve series' typical broken-up keyboard style (as opposed to the connected keys you see in the
Bold line). Otherwise we don't really know much, but naturally, the new model is said to be running BlackBerry OS 5.0 under the hood (in other words, it'll look pretty much like every other BlackBerry you've used in recent memory). More on this puppy as we get it.
Update: Unwired View points out that
there's a Bluetooth SIG certification for an 8910, so this is all lining up pretty nicely, isn't it?
posted January 11th 2010 10:01PM
that just looks like a pressed plastic mold to me.
@jacksplat I agree, it looks like those fake phones you see at cell store.
@jacksplat Gripes. It looks like the past dozen QWERTY Blackberrys released....
@jacksplat Also, that plug there is a micro-USB cable with a "Genuine Motorola Accessory" sticker. Looks just like the plug for my Moto V9x.
@Ryan Deen There isn’t much information on the phone just yet, but it will probably be running BlackBerry OS 5.0. The 8910 has also shown up at the Bluetooth SIG certification, so that’s some sort of confirmation on the device.
It'll be cool if this one will be release on Asia as well. More details: http://bit.ly/blackberry-8910-more-details
If the only thing that's different is an optical track pad, I'm not interested.
@N3SSQuiK Seriously who is interested in Black Berry anything any more. I don't think there is a company more out of touch.
@Soljin Well, considering they still have a very large market share and teenage girls love them for whatever reasons i would say they are very relevant AND in-touch. They are business devices which have slowly filtered through to the general market, and RIM's biggest problem is going to be changing up their devices without spoiling the form factor which makes them so popular. (Here's lookin' at you Storm)
@Soljin I am pretty sure Blackberry has the largest smartphone marketshare in the US, hopefully They will just stick to business and not interfear with the app phone market.
@Soljin
Totally agree, they are very out of touch with the consumer market that they are trying so hard to penetrate. As I heard somewhere, "Blackberry may be the leading smartphone right now but it doesn't feel like the future."
@Soljin Well, RIM's market share is continuing to grow, quarter after quarter, so I think their investors will tell you that whatever they are doing is working just fine.
http://gizmodo.com/5404274/the-year-apple-and-rim-ate-everyone-elses-lunch
3G? 3G? 3G? 3G? 3G? 3G? 3G? 3G?
The keys look flat instead of round like on the other Curve models. Or maybe I just haven't seen a Curve recently...
I'm sorry but THAT is a poor image. makes the phone look bad.
But good wishes to the new born berry.
I've already had a friend buy one from Sprint the other day. It is not much different from the old Curve but it does feel a lot more solid than its predecessor.
In a world of sleek and, well, just plain better looking smart phones this one looks like the inside of the Nebakanezer... ug.ly.
@grumpyOldMan
Come on, you are just a "grumpy old man" sir!
Moving along, with the current lineup of Blackberries, do we really need this thing! Not necessary in my opinion, I'll stick to my 9700 and the CDMA guys can jump on the 9650 bandwagon as soon as its out, which should be soon enough!
@grumpyOldMan If you are referring to the Matrix hovercraft, I am pretty sure you spelled that wrong.
@revoltracers
You sir are correct. It is Nebuchadnezzar. My apologies.
@grumpyOldMan
"i dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone" :(
It doesn't look like a real blackberry.
Maybe once the browser becomes usable.blackberry has a lot of great features, but the browser just killed it for me
@synergy OPERA MOBILE.
Why are all the new black berries excatly the same as the old? They need a new OS, faster phones and more apps.
Also they should focus on a storm 3 with a webkit browser that supports flash and more apps
RIM's Blackberry doesn't seem like it's progressed much since the original release of the Bold 9000. The OS is dated, the browser is a joke, and those 2.8" screens are beginning to look really small.
Funny hearing all the technophiles here complaining about the BB's browser - as if they can't figure out how to download Bolt, Skyfire, Opera, etc.
Wow, the hating on Blackberry is something to see. How many of you have actually *owned* or even used one for longer than two minutes in a phone store? I like my Bold - does anything I could really want to do, fantastic keyboard and the screen is amazing. If I have one gripe its the fact a few common symbols ("&", for example)are relegated to secondary key combos. The other is the fact that AT&T blows.
@psycros It's quite expensive in my country, even with a contract. But I agree that its feature set looks quite good.
@psycros I had a Bold for almost 6 months, and Skyfire was in a closed beta at the time . Bolt browser was faster, but it used a terribly ugly font, it was also very buggy. I used to defend my BlackBerry just like you did, but I realized I was just trying to justify my purchase. I ended up getting another iPhone, which I just sold. Getting the Nexus one, hopefully android will make me happy.
Stupid comment system!!! HOW does a blog this popular, and part of AOL no less, NOT add simple things like proper threading and a MY PROFILE button????
@psycros:
You nailed it with "part of AOL," really.
Fake BlackBerry. RIM never makes the answer button icon upside down.
@Comment Shit nevermind.
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@Comment HAHA big laugh you made my day.
Although it doesn't look bad, it could be photoshopped. But it doesn't look like a true Blackberry, not sleek enought.
crackberries suck palm is back to take back what was once there's.
@young hov 718 That would be awesome!
Blackberries all look the same now, but I guess if aint broke, don't fix it!
@XChrisX Yeah same with all three generations of the Iphone.
@Wil2Win Agreed accept there are only 3 iterations of the iPhone, and many of the blackberry. And to be fair the last two really look nothing like the first one which is arguably the best looking one depending on who you ask. At the end of the day, I guess the business people using blackberries are probably non tech people such as ourselves so they don't really care about new hardware, and software as long as it does what they need it to do.
Test!!!! 123
In my times I have had Windows phones, symbian phones, iphone and blackberry and I really wasn't a fan of blackberry but so many people treat phones like religion.
This one looks like they do with cars, just put on a new fender and call it "all new"
Slow news day
If only the 8910 had UMA and T-Mobile compatible 3G! I don't like the Bold 9700. Nothing beats that "broken keyboard" on the Curve 8900 for fast typing without looking at the keyboard.
Oh this looks nice...Oh wait, we've seen it before as the Atlas... :)
Blackberries have the largest marketshare in the US and are more relevant than Android which is getting so much press for no apparent reason.
Has anyone seen the Sprint commercial with the Purple BlackBerry? It looks just like that, with the optical trackpad, but Purple.
Is it just me or are all these BlackBerry's "In The Wild" not that interesting? I feel as though every 3-6 months there's a new BlackBerry "In The Wild" but none of them have an OS improvement.
Wish this BB haters would quit dick riding Google and Apple.
This phone is NOT COMING TO THE UNITED STATES.
This is a revamped version of the Atlas which has already been shown like 4 fucking months ago but with a trackball, Atlas is the Eastern Asian version of the Bold 9700. Its got the same Marvell 624mhz processor and 256MB of RAM and 3.2MP camera, trackpad and is ONLY 2G.
I think RIM went with the 8900 curve style because the keyboards are most likely easier to swap for where they will sell this device.
Anyways like i said, old news and you'll never fucking see it anyways.
@devildrifterx
Wow omg i was about to post this too.