Google CEO Schmidt avoids the dog food, captures memories with BlackBerry

by Chris Ziegler posted Jul 9th 2009 at 7:47PM

Investment firm Allen & Co's Sun Valley, Idaho media summit is a place for the world's wealthiest and most influential decision-makers to chill out, enjoy a couple double Macallans on the rocks, and talk shop. It might even be a rare opportunity to escape to the comfort of a competitor's product -- a guilty pleasure you wouldn't dream of indulging in more buttoned-up environments. Google CEO Eric Schmidt was caught snapping a candid shot from a BlackBerry (we're pretty sure it's a Curve 8900) at the event -- and yes, granted, Google makes apps for BlackBerrys, but when there's a phone that bears your company's own name, it feels just a little bit like cheating, doesn't it? We guess the big, ratty Google sticker adds back a sliver of street cred, but it's not like this thing's packing some furiously awesome camera that a Magic, Dream, or Hero doesn't. How's Gmail treatin' you there, Eric? You're using that, at least, right?

[Via CNN]

Filed under: RIM, Misc, Android

Tags: blackberry, eric schmidt, EricSchmidt, google, rim

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Aron @ Jul 9th 2009 8:08PM

It appears to me to be a Storm!

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Hey Ya @ Jul 9th 2009 8:23PM

That's what I was thinking. I'm looking at the back of a Storm right now, and that thing is a dead ringer.

Dude really needs to get a decent phone.

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JimboJones @ Jul 10th 2009 1:14AM

Blackberry is the best smartphone with email/calendar capability. Yes there are tons of other phones which do better music, internet, movies, Fart Apps, .... but none of them does email as good as BB.

I'm kinda disappointed that he does not use Android. I know few people from Google and none of them uses Android. What kind of message does this send to the community?

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Hey Ya @ Jul 10th 2009 9:18AM

I've got nothing against Blackberry. I own a few, and use one as my main phone/email device.

My problem is with the Storm.

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bchow @ Jul 9th 2009 8:27PM

That's actually not a sticker -- it's an egrip. Pretty amazing little things actually. They prevent small devices like phones, from flying off your car's dashboard when you turn. Our company had a bunch made with our logo and hand them out when we go places.

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Doax @ Jul 9th 2009 8:30PM

lol. fail. he might as well have an iphone cus he's on the board of apple right?

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Riley Freeman @ Jul 9th 2009 8:51PM

maybe its a blackberry.....with google. u never know stranger things have happened

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Kirk @ Jul 9th 2009 9:27PM

You're right, you never know!! Stranger things have happened... like Windows Mobile on a Treo!! I remember what a HUGE deal that was back in 2007.

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VZW @ Jul 9th 2009 10:35PM

That is no curve. It is a Verizon Storm.

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Chris Ziegler @ Jul 10th 2009 12:34AM

It's a Curve. Look closely at where the camera panel starts on the back in relation to the edge of the phone. Find a picture of the back of the 8900 and the Storm and compare.

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