More BlackBerry Bold 9800 pics surface: AT&T and virtual keyboard in, SurePress out?
By Ross Miller 
posted May 23rd 2010 6:13PM
posted May 23rd 2010 6:13PM
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Hmm, well its a start.
@sonola777
As a Blackberry Curve 8310 user who got stuck on AT&T because all his friends had iPhones, this looks to be amazing as an upgrade choice for me.
Frankly, I wasn't impressed with the Bold or Bold 2 enough to upgrade to them, and I was seriously considering a Palm Pre, but this looks to blow the Pre out of the water if it holds to the hype.
Also, F^&# AT&T. They need better phones.
@elthran
(*yawn*)
(hand covers mouth as he does it)
@elthran
God I'm so tired of this bitching....
No one "forced" you to join AT&T. And if you want you can leave at any moment. Quit with the waterworks. Join sprint and get the evo 4g if you want...I don't care. Neither does AT&T.
You can join sprint and get their "any mobile, anytime" deal and you'll get unlimited talk to anyone regardless of what network.
So really quit bitching.
@TheLondonExchange actually you're bitching way more than him, and you're more annoying too
@sonola777
mkay.
@TheLondonExchange "Forced" wasn't even in his comment. You ever consider he didn't want to pay an ETF fee before you dug your claws into him?
@TheLondonExchange ruining the name of jolly old london! VOTE DOWN!
@N900 If he's still rocking a curve 8310 then i doubt he's still under contract. I'm defending LondenExchange though.
@Edobe I meant I'm not defending londonexchange though his tirade was uncalled for
@N900
You nailed it, I wasn't forced to join and quite frankly I never had a problem with AT&T's network and I like their rollover minutes, but I got stuck with them cause of the super-high ETF fees when I wanted to get a Droid. I put off on the Nexus One cause of all the reported hardware issues, and I already made my comment on Bold 1 & 2.
All I'm really bitching about is that AT&T needs new phones that are not the iPhone, namely cool Android stuff. Their current practices and announcements seem to indicate they are moving in that direction, but lets face it, the blackflip sucked.
I think this phone might, might, become the leader in their non-iPhone smartphone area. But the Pre-like design sells it for me. The real question is will the hardware specs outmatch the Pre significantly enough to warrant the most-likely higher cost Blackberry?
@Edobe
Believe it or not, I am still under contract for another month. I got my 8310 before I started reading up on tech so I had no idea there would be a Bold a month later.
Much facepalming ensued.
@Edobe No, no I understand. That is an old phone, I should have looked that up.
@elthran AT&T has unlimited mobile-to-mobile any carrier for ... *gasp* ... FREE! No one is "keeping" you on AT&T but yourself.
@barkerja AT&T = Sprint. :sigh: One of those days ... It should read "Sprint has unlimited mobile-to-mobile ...."
@elthran Why did you get stuck on AT&T just because your friends are on AT&T? Do you also stick your head in the oven because they said to?
@kangoljas
I have to imagine sticking your head in an oven is quite a bit different than joining a wireless carrier...Wait this is AT&T we're talking about, never mind.
@elthran
Me too, I'm still rocking the 8310. I want a new phone. I already pre-order
an evo. After seeing the video and camera quality i'll probably give it back.
I love att, good customer service. Unfortunately I think att is putting all of
it's effort into the iphone. No desire, no galaxy s, no anything worth getting anytime soon.
@sonola777 Yep, and because its RIM. It'll be popular once again, particularly, in Asia. At least, it has a better form-factor than the 9670. Still waiting for the BB magnum though. http://j.mp/magnum-RIM-impressions
@insky LOOOOOL!
Wa wa wa wa waaaaaa
@futurerheza
Todallyyy!!!
SurePress is a good idea, but it's poorly implemented. I welcome tactile feedback.
@archkron I agree, the technology is stellar but they really did not utilize it in any way, surepress to me always could have been a way to bring mouse hovering features onto a mobile handset. I really hope they further develop it but i doubt they will. That being said i dont know why the bottom is so awkwardly rounded... it should mirror the top
@SteveyAyo The bottom looks like regular blackberry bottoms.
@Ellianth not really, if you look at other blackberries you will see that the top and bottom are very symmetrical shapes which gives them a very refined and clean aesthetic that this one is lacking a little bit... as a matter of fact almost every phone is like that. It almost looks like they rounded the bottom almost as an homage to the Pre, like the top is traditional BB and the bottom is all Palm
Please tell me that is not SurePress...
@kapanak
And...it isn't. YAY!
Hurry up and release this bad boy, I'm bored of my 9000!
Capacitive touchscreen plus webkit plus keyboard just might be the way to go. Just make sure it's a GSM device RIM...
@Plazmic Flame If it's AT&T it's GSM...
Omg, I loved SurePress!! That sucks for me, but I didn't think they'd put SurePress on this phone anyways. Looks interesting and kinda cheap. I loved my Storm 1 and Storm 2 though, they should just bring those phones over to AT&T. Hell, those are probably the only 2 phones that could get me away from the next iPhone, well the Storm 2 for sure, the Storm 1 had some screen issues, but I still loved it anyways ^-^
@Cold Dead Fingers well they are making a storm 3
@Cold Dead Fingers
Funny fact. Those Storm's happen to be GSM capable world phones. I believe they come unlocked, so it's as easy as slipping in an AT&T SIM card and you are good to go. You even get 3G with it.
@SteveyAyo Oh ya? Well, the iPhone would probably be out by then, and i'd have to hope that the Storm 3 gets released for at&t but if it does, then I might return the iPhone.......maybe
@theeligundry Sorry, I marked you negative when I meant to mark positive, but they don't come unlocked. They are 100% GSM capable but you still need to manually unlock the phone and then you can only use t-mo or at&t edge network.
@theeligundry
@theeligundry
they are world phones but they lack comparability with AT&T's 3G network. You can use them for calls and texts, but without wifi you can't get online.
Every announce of design sense?
@centizen ounce. Autocorrect is a pain sometimes.
If it has SurePress they blew it
Only if they had thought of this 2 years ago
It looks so tiny in that picture though...like a mini Blackberry.
I really want a side by side with another phone. Just to get an idea of how big it is.
@TheLondonExchange Looks to be comparable in size to the iPhone to me... it seems like the person handling it in that picture might have some meaty paws.
@TheLondonExchange check the source links, i thought the same thing too but the other pictures make it look much more normal sized
@TheBrizz
I'll check out the source pics....
I hope there will be Android, WM7 phones in this form factor.
@Dking7 Dell Lightning for WinPho7... and i think there is one for Android but cant remember the name
@SteveyAyo
you're probably thinking about the Flash but it's got a pixi form facto.
@n8equalsd well that sucks, i guess android doesn't have one yet... of course they are about to get a grown up sidekick made by htc and that will be epic