BlackBerry Curve 8900 hits FCC, destined for US airwaves early next year

by Chris Ziegler, posted Nov 12th 2008 at 10:25PM

With the 8900 having just launched on T-Mobile Germany, it only stands to reason that T-Mobile's US subsidiary would be a logical next step; after all, it's already brought in the WiFi-equipped 8320, and the 8900 is the next progression in that bloodline. It also makes a ripe competitor for the Bold, which just saw the light of day on T-Mobile's much-larger rival -- and seeing how RIM has now mentioned that the 8900 will be coming stateside in the first quarter of 2009, we're feeling like a T-Mob launch is about as close to a sure thing as you can find these days. The only question is, why wait so long? When you consider that the darned thing just passed the FCC, we're not seeing a compelling reason to hold it until after the crucial holiday season unless they're looking to give the 8220 some breathing room -- and hey, sorry, 8220, but in a battle against the 8900, you're going to go down every time.

Read - Coming to the US
Read - FCC filing

Filed under: Handsets, RIM, GSM, EDGE

Tags: 8900, blackberry, curve, rim

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Brandon @ Nov 12th 2008 10:37PM

So what happened to AT&T's Sapphire 8320...?

I figured they nixed it because of the positive outlook on the 8900...but RIM say 2009... -shrug-

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Chris @ Nov 13th 2008 8:59AM

The RIM rep told us that we would have it here at T-Mobile in January. If that is true, we won't have to wait too long.

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Stephan D. @ Nov 13th 2008 9:38AM

They are actually giving the Bold some breathing room. AT&T first. We win. :-)

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BBUser405 @ Nov 13th 2008 10:52AM

At first i thought it was coming to at&t... but at&t's got the Bold which is a 3G blackberry. Now, i know its a t-mobile device, so im guessing this is t-mobiles
device to compete against at&t... which we win like stephan says. LOL!!! The bold beats this curve hands down, its got 3G data, the look, and looks way classier than curve.

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Matt @ Nov 13th 2008 11:21AM

Looks are subjective, 3G is overrated, and the Javelin has a 3.2 megapixel camera. EDGE is fine for what many BB users want and that's email. The Bold is also a massive device. Javelin is considerably smaller.

Besides, it's not a competition and if you compete with people over cell phones, well, sucks to be you.

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