BlackBerry 9650 spotted in the wild again, 'Bold' branding confirmed
By Chris Ziegler 
posted April 8th 2010 3:49PM
posted April 8th 2010 3:49PM
posted April 8th 2010 3:49PM
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Sometimes I feel my 8900 is a bit to clunky for me. I dunno if I'm going to purchase another one anytime soon. Android is looking pretty sexy...
Going to a school that's right next to RIM's R&D park really gives you a sense of how terrible they are. Way to introduce nothing new in terms of features.
@Palpatine
Please elaborate. I also go to the same school you speak of and I do not understand what you are getting at.
I dunno about you, I have no clue what the features/specs except for 3.2 megapixel camera. So would you like to elaborate on that as well?
@Palpatine
im having a hard time understanding the correlation between your proximity to their offices and RIM's product quality
@spasewalkr
I know many of the co-op students that work there. The best ones have been drawn away by Apple/Google/Nvidia etc. That leaves...well, you get it :P
@oblivion From what I've read, the specs are very similar to the Blackberry Tour that was released last summer.
@Palpatine it's going to have wi-fi, a trackpad and a slightly changed keyboard by most rumors, and some say it will even pack more RAM, a bigger internal NAND chip and a faster processor, so it can run OS 4.5 the way it's meant to be run. i'd be lining up for one, since my tour is freezing like mad lately, but the evo has pretty much made my decision for me.
@DaveHazard OS 5.0, not 4.5. can't believe i said that.
@Palpatine
Perhaps the reason you know many of the sub-par as you claim people that are hired by RIM is that that is the crowd that is willing to tolerate you. Regardless of your experience I go to the same school and can say that your claims are most definitely not true. Most of our brightest folks are attracted by Microsoft, Google and RIM.
Looks good. I'm sure it'll sell shedloads and continue to cement RIM's position as top dog in the US smartphone market.
it looks like a sim card and a microSD card under the FRONT cover? with sim card, I doubt that's for sprint or verizon.
@htd CDMA+ GSM maybe
@htd just like the current blackberry tour and the old blackberry 8830 world edition, this is going to be primarily a CDMA phone, with a GSM slot for the sake of international use. locked to vodafone if you buy the phone from verizon, unlocked if you buy it from sprint, and the tour is quad-band (i let my cousin try my phone out on t-mobile before he bought his own blackberry) so this will be too. i've owned both an 8830 and a tour.
Another incremental upgrade for blackberry. Way to go.
I don't know, I love my 9700. Kills the iPhone in terms of email and messaging, IMO. And the keyboard is amazing. It's not fancy or flashy, but it's rock-solid.
But the battery on this CDMA version looks tiny compared to the 9700... what's the deal with that? One of this phone's strongest suits is that it can go 2-3 days on a single charge. I doubt this one will be able to do that.
@PF judging from my tour since its last software update, people who buy this can look forward to charging their phone twice a day with rigorous SMS use, moderate internet use and little to no voice calling.
Blackberry suck and boring won't be buying any no more
I have a 9630 Tour and I love the BlackBerry as a communicating device. There is nothing out there that beats it build quality and speed in communicating. However RIM really needs to step up their browser, battery, processor, and memory. They have been stagnant since the Bold 9000 was released. Give us a highly underclocked SnapDragon (read increased performance and much better battery life), give us 1GB app memory, give us the webkit browser, and give us 1500+ mAh. Thanks
@pauldovi try Opera Mini. it works on my Bold 9700. its not perfect but it sure beats the native browser.
Blackberry is so done if they don't start innovating very quickly!
When is that damn slider with the webkit browser comming out!
3.2 MP camera? Someone should tell them it's 2010.
3.2 MP is so 2009
Camera quality has little to do with megapixels. You can put a tiny 50mp sensor behind a crappy plastic lens and what comes out looks worse and is less usable than a 2mp sensor with a decent lens.
@lorennerol You know that. I know that. Most people reading engadget know that. But the average consumer only see's numbers. Blackberry should understand that
The slot below the battery looks a lot more like a SIM card slot, which means GSM...unless this will be one of those "SIM care pre-installed" international phones like the Storm2 and all.
@caseyman, thats exactly what it will be. just like the current tour.
It is going to be a world phone (CMDA primarly with a slot for a SIM card for world travel) just like the Tour. I have to say that I dislike that it is now a Bold and not a Tour, but I will be happy to get rid of the stupid trackball on the Tour! I'm over the trackball issues so glad that it's going to be replaced.