The Boy Genius Report: BlackBerry 8700 4.2 OS & 8800 Confirmed

By Engadget

Once again by way of the Boy Genius, we managed to get a first look at the 4.2 OS for the BlackBerry 8700 which now adds voice notes, Push-To-Talk, file explorer, .wav attachments, mp3 player, bluetooth file transfer, GPS support, among other very cool things.

As you can clearly see, Boy Genius was dead on: the model number you ask? 8800. QWERTY keyboard lover? You're so in luck. The codename on this model? Gamma Ray. Camera? Business users rejoice, none so far.

In a recent ALX file from RIM, it has the following entry:

"GPRS/rimGammaRay.sfi"

As a comparison, here is the entry for the 8100 (aka Pearl aka Stealth):

"GPRS/rim8100g.sfi"

You will notice that the Gamma Ray does not have entries for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD) nor a Camera. This is preliminary, at best, and obviously subject to change; but it's also the first official mentioning of the upcoming BlackBerry 8800 from RIM (albeit, by accident). Click on for more shots than you can shake a WinMo phone at.

There is also a nice little bug in this version, setting a male picture as the Caller ID picture for a contact will turn to a woman when the call is connected.

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