Well, yesterday was the day that a lot of BlackBerry addicts awaited for quite some time. The BlackBerry 8700c from Cingular was finally released. I remember when I first heard of the BlackBerry 8700c, what was then called the Blackberry Electron almost 300 posts ago back at the end of May. It sure has come a long way since then.
BlackBerry 8700c features include:
- Dynamic, highly responsive experience when viewing attachments and graphics, browsing the web and running applications
- Access up to 10 supported business and/or personal email accounts
- Integrated attachment viewing for popular file formats
- MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) allows you to combine text and images on a single message
- Bright, high-resolution screen provides large viewable workspace and includes intelligent light sensing technology to automatically optimize screen lighting levels for ideal indoor and outdoor viewing
- Built-in speakerphone for hands-free dialog and convenient conference calls with excellent sound quality
- Bluetooth® hands-free headset and car kit support
- Polyphonic and MP3 ring tones can be assigned to your contacts
- Ergonomic, full QWERTY keyboard for a familiar typing and data entry experience
- Large, dedicated “Send”, “End” and “Mute” keys, plus user definable convenience keys.
- 64 MB of memory
- Intel® PXA901 processor at 312 MHz
- Quad-Band network support on 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS and EDGE networks allows for international roaming between North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
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When will the 8700 series be on Verizon?
It looks like it will be at least several months before any U.S. carrier other than Cingular will have BlackBerry 8700 hundred models. Right after the launch, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie was quoted saying the Cinglar will be the only carrier offering the 8700 for a “period of months“.
Does Sprint do Blackberry?
Sprint does do BlackBerry but the don’t currently offer the BlackBerry 8700.
Does anyone know when the 8700 series will be released by Verizon?