Cingular's BlackBerry 8800 unboxed

by Paul Miller posted Feb 20th 2007 at 11:08AM

He got us those original BlackBerry 8800 shots, so we're guessing these unboxing pics of the phone here were no sweat for Boy Genius. We still can't claim to be crazy about the device, which launched last week, but we're sure plenty of suits will be glad to replace their aging CrackBerries with this fancy new QWERTY version. As a side note -- could Cingular's boxes be any more boring?

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Superosh @ Feb 20th 2007 4:04PM

There is talk of this having already been released, but it is not available on Cingular's website, and when I called them they don't even know what I'm talking about. Has anyone had any other luck?

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theburn16 @ Feb 20th 2007 1:05PM

this phone is not available until tomorrow, we have received very strict orders that this is not to even be shown on the floor until the 21st much less be sold

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Steve (BlackBerryCool) @ Feb 20th 2007 1:10PM

Well, Mr. Burn, your orders aren't really that strict, I suppose. People have been picking these up from their Cingular stores as early as this past Friday.

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theburn16 @ Feb 20th 2007 1:33PM

i guess a lot of it depends on what region these stores are in, we did have reports of some being sold before they were supposed to...which is the reason why top mgnt came down hard and told us we weren't even to mention it while on the sales floor until the 21st

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Andrew Hillman, Andrew Hllman @ Feb 20th 2007 11:45PM

Too bad for Bill Gates that Microsoft gives away his push email for Free

Mobile Device Platforms: A Comparison of RIM Blackberry 4.0 and Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Messaging and Security Feature Pack Enterprise Mobile Solutions

By: Wipro
October 2005

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IT managers are increasingly being asked to provide mobile access to corporate email, business applications and other critical network resources. The cost of providing and supporting access to these resources is significant and IT managers should give careful consideration to the associated costs and capabilities before deploying an enterprise mobile solution.

Wipro Technologies, a leader in the IT services and consulting industry, conducted a comparative lab based study of mobile platforms by benchmarking the Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP) coupled with Exchange Server 2003 SP2 solution against the RIM Blackberry Handheld 4.0 and Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.0.

The purpose of the study was to quantify the costs of deploying and supporting a mobile environment and to provide a comparison of functional differences of IT administration, user functionality and security features. The results of the study highlight a number of distinct advantages of Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 MSFP solution.

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Lower TCO: The TCO of the Windows Mobile platform is 15-24% lower than that of an equivalent RIM Blackberry platform over a three-year period.Less Infrastructure: There is a significant difference in fixed cost between the Windows Mobile 5.0 MSFP and the Blackberry environment, due to the additional infrastructure required for the BES Servers as well as the supporting database.
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Lower Support Costs: The additional infrastructure necessary for the RIM Blackberry environment requires additional support and IT management effort.
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Tighter Integration: Windows Mobile 5.0 MSFP takes advantage of Exchange 2003’s mobile support technology providing IT administrators a single environment to manage.
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Larger Application Selection: Numerous 3rd Party application vendors and a familiar .Net development environment provide Windows Mobile 5.0 MSFP customers with a wide variety of choices when expanding the mobile platform to support line-of-business functions.