Spotted: Curve 8900 running on AT&T

by Jacob Schulman posted Jan 9th 2009 at 4:36PM

So Boy Genius Report reported on a shot of what seems to be a Curve 8900 running on AT&T -- which seems like a pretty good idea, may we add -- and we're trying to make sense of what's really going on. We hit up RIM's booth at CES to get the lowdown on the situation, and what do you know, the mythical beast is nowhere to be found. The reps on the floor said that it's only for T-Mobile and when we checked every 8900 on the show floor, we couldn't find one running on any other carrier. 'Course, we'd be shocked if RIM wasn't chronically refreshing BGR every fifteen seconds, so it's entirely possible that they saw the news, realized their grave error, and pulled the offending phone posthaste. Either way, it's a great idea, is it not?

[Via Boy Genius Report]

Filed under: Handsets, RIM, ATT

Tags: 8900, blackberry, blackberrycurve, CES, CES 2009, Ces2009, curve 2, curve 8900, curve2, curve8900, javelin, RIM

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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jorv88 @ Jan 9th 2009 5:01PM

(t-mobile) well trade ur our 8900 for your bold...

(att) no...

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DNA @ Jan 9th 2009 5:26PM

It would be even better if it was spotted with EVDO Rev. A and with a Verizon Wireless logo on it.

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Anthony @ Jan 9th 2009 5:26PM

Just blow up the hand, do a fingerprint analysis & then get back to us. Thanks.

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Jimmy S @ Jan 9th 2009 6:21PM

It would be even better if it had 3G. What is the point of another stupid EDGE phone.

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Clay @ Jan 9th 2009 7:12PM

Please bring this phone to AT&T! Their coverage is so much better than T-Mobile!

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JTRMulch @ Jan 9th 2009 11:37PM

I hate to kill the dreams of fellow AT&Ters, but this doesn't look promising. First off, the keyboard is not the updated version. Second: check out all of the review videos on Youtube (from the recent CES event). They are ALL T-Mobile versions of the phone and all the people mention is T-Mobile as a carrier. I'm not saying that this device is NOT coming to AT&T (although the idea of them FORCING people to 3g devices and then releasing this would be a little odd), but I wouldn't expect it anytime soon. If I saw videos of the device being used that day, then I would have some more faith in it being released soon. This just seemed too perfect - as if they WANTED someone to get a shot of it, and then take it off the floor - to keep us AT&Ters salivating over and continue the talk about this beautiful device....

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J.P. @ Jan 10th 2009 3:56AM

i think the bold is wayyy better than the curve, the bold looks really updated and classy, the curve looks clean but i totally agree with JTR its not updated. Plus the bold is 3G and going forward, why would you do EDGE?? Overall, Bold is the bang for the buck.

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StephenBBYM @ Jan 10th 2009 2:01PM

You know there is actually a hack on the phone to unlock vendor themes. I have it done with my 8330 on sprint so that I have the whole look and feel of a tmo, verizon, or att blackberry. If you notice there is just the theme no actual att branding. So this is the most probable explantation.

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