Rogers getting BlackBerry Pearl 8120 soon?

by Chris Ziegler, posted May 19th 2008 at 8:02PM

Rogers loves it some BlackBerry, and seeing how the Canadian behemoth's closest American analog, AT&T, now has both next-gen Pearls in its stable, we see no reason to believe that this won't happen. MobileInCanada is reporting that Rogers is gearing up to add the WiFi-packing 8120 alongside the GPS-equipped 8110, a phone that it already sells for $199.99 CAD (about $201) on contract. Heck, Rogers still proudly sells the original 8100 for a hundie less, so they could very well end up with a Pearl trifecta if they play their cards right. No word on when we might see this pop up exactly, but as for pricing, it'd have to slot in above the 8110 if AT&T's strategy is any indication.

Filed under: Handsets, RIM, Rogers Wireless, GSM, EDGE

Tags: 8120, blackberry, canada, pearl, rim, rogers

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moe @ May 19th 2008 11:54PM

rogers will never allow the wifi to be enabled for any of its phones. makes one wonder how they will handle the iphone.

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Bla1ze @ May 20th 2008 2:08AM

That's by far an incorrect statement, Rogers just launched their Home Calling Zone which is the same as T-Mobs hotspot@Home service,they are also set to drop the 8820 in the next little while..not too mention the BlackBerry bold as well...all devices which have Wifi and for HCZ to work NEED Wifi fully enabled...and Rogers has enabled Wifi on their devices before..they did it on the dash (S621) and HTC Touch, heck even their iPaq series devices all have it fully enabled, it's just configuration settings that need to be adjusted

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Daniel Perz @ May 20th 2008 12:41AM

Sorry to burst your bubble moe, but the 8120 is already found on the Rogers Video ad for the current week, priced the same as the 8110.

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