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philpurdy

Mar 24, 2006, 5:14 PM

Can't wait!

I would think Cingular would be first out of the gate with a US compatible model. Now the question is what will hit the US carriers first---an EVDO 8700 on Verizon, an EDGE 7130 on Cingular, or this hot number?
The MDA will be tough competition.
I agree, I am very excited to see this piece of tech on Cingular/T-Mobile. This is what BB needed to become a the best smart phone on the market, no maybe Wi-Fi!
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urnamehere

Mar 24, 2006, 9:43 PM

3rd 3g blackberry....

When it was launched the Verizon BB 7250 had EVDO built in, but not enabled (mostly so you couldn't tether it to your PC as a modem. Recently the new software version (version 4 i believe) enables the EVDO. So technically there are currently 2 3G blackberries (both with Verizon I might add), so this would be, technically, the third.
Good call, urnamehere. I was thinking the same thing. Verizon supposedly enabled EVDO for the 7250 some time back. In fact, I think the headline is just incorrect. The 7250 has a "full QWERTY keyboard" and has been around for a year. Besides, EVD...
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"UMTS blackberry revealed" would have been more accurate, thats all i'm sayin.


ps i appreciate all that rich and the other mods do for us with little time and limited internet access.
hacer54321

Mar 27, 2006, 12:13 AM

Theme

Will we be able to get that Theme? I love my Cingular 8700c, but I would love it even more with that cool Vodafone theme. My 7100g had the Vodafone theme it was by far my favorite. Hope this comes.

🙂
black_burry

Mar 24, 2006, 6:43 PM

t-mobile...

i duno if you guys know this, but tmobile is comin out with there own 8700 on the 15th of april, i dunno the specs but you never know...
It's the 8700, so they're running with EDGE on that one.
 
 
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