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From: John Navas on 9 Aug 2010 10:57
Research In Motion formally introduced the BlackBerry Curve 9300 today,
the first GSM-based Curve to offer 3G. It is also "BlackBerry 6-ready."

MORE:
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226600220>

COMMENT: Do or perhaps die for RIM
From: tlvp on 10 Aug 2010 23:34
On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:57:04 -0400, John Navas <spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote:

> Research In Motion formally introduced the BlackBerry Curve 9300 today,
> the first GSM-based Curve to offer 3G. It is also "BlackBerry 6-ready."
>
> MORE:
> <http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226600220>
>
> COMMENT: Do or perhaps die for RIM

Would be even more attractive, for me, if, instead of offering only
"800/850/1900/2100MHz for AT&T and 900/1700/2100MHz for T-Mobile",
there were a true world-band 800/850/900/1700/1800/1900/2100 version.

Cheers, -- tlvp
--
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP
From: miso on 11 Aug 2010 01:52
On Aug 10, 8:34 pm, tlvp <tPlOvUpBErLeL...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:57:04 -0400, John Navas <spamfilt...(a)navasgroup.com> wrote:
> > Research In Motion formally introduced the BlackBerry Curve 9300 today,
> > the first GSM-based Curve to offer 3G. It is also "BlackBerry 6-ready."
>
> > MORE:
> > <http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jht....>
>
> > COMMENT: Do or perhaps die for RIM
>
> Would be even more attractive, for me, if, instead of offering only
> "800/850/1900/2100MHz for AT&T and 900/1700/2100MHz for T-Mobile",
> there were a true world-band 800/850/900/1700/1800/1900/2100 version.
>
> Cheers, -- tlvp
> --
> Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP

I have a Tour 9700 and really don't see the advantage of this new
phone. Supposedly the 9700 will run OS6.

I have to agree that compatibility on 3G with AT&T would be nice.

Note that T-Mobile is upgrading their 3G to eventually 21mbps, but you
need the compatible chips in your phone. For instance, the BB 9700
Tour can only do 3Mbps. My understanding (but I haven't verified this)
is some of the Android phones have chips capable of 7Mbps.

The iphone 4 has the slow chips (3 MBPS). It's really hard to believe
Apple screwed up this project as badly as they did. Granted none of
the iphone work well as a phone (poor microphone, speaker, and of
course radio), but the iphone 4 is such a step backwards.

I noticed the BB slider has that same slanted keyboard as the 9700.
The older keyboard (8320 for instance) was better. Not quite as
slanted, making thumb typing easier.

In any event, this new BB isn't do or die for RIM. Rather OS6 is do or
die.
From: Mike S. on 11 Aug 2010 08:19

In article <op.vg878hn2itl47o(a)acer250.gateway.2wire.net>,
tlvp <tPlOvUpBErLeLsEs(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:57:04 -0400, John Navas
><spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote:
>
>> Research In Motion formally introduced the BlackBerry Curve 9300 today,
>> the first GSM-based Curve to offer 3G. It is also "BlackBerry 6-ready."
>>
>> MORE:
>>
><http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226600220>
>>
>> COMMENT: Do or perhaps die for RIM
>
>Would be even more attractive, for me, if, instead of offering only
>"800/850/1900/2100MHz for AT&T and 900/1700/2100MHz for T-Mobile",
>there were a true world-band 800/850/900/1700/1800/1900/2100 version.

Nokia N8.


From: John Navas on 11 Aug 2010 10:48
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:19:47 +0000 (UTC), in
<i3u4h3$qbd$2(a)reader1.panix.com>, retsuhcs(a)xinap.moc (Mike S.) wrote:

>
>In article <op.vg878hn2itl47o(a)acer250.gateway.2wire.net>,
>tlvp <tPlOvUpBErLeLsEs(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:57:04 -0400, John Navas
>><spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Research In Motion formally introduced the BlackBerry Curve 9300 today,
>>> the first GSM-based Curve to offer 3G. It is also "BlackBerry 6-ready."
>>>
>>> MORE:
>>>
>><http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226600220>
>>>
>>> COMMENT: Do or perhaps die for RIM
>>
>>Would be even more attractive, for me, if, instead of offering only
>>"800/850/1900/2100MHz for AT&T and 900/1700/2100MHz for T-Mobile",
>>there were a true world-band 800/850/900/1700/1800/1900/2100 version.
>
>Nokia N8.

Severely hobbled with Symbian^3 unfortunately.

But there's already a Chinese clone (CJ-3) running Android (2.1):
<http://www.fonearena.com/blog/21440/nokia-n8-clone-with-android.html>

--
John

"Assumption is the mother of all screw ups."
[Wethern�s Law of Suspended Judgement]
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