Comments on: Exclusive BlackBerry Bold 9800 Slider Photos

By: fryrice

fryrice — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:16:18 +0000

The only reason why RIM has a big market share over the other smartphone competitors is because majority of the users are old Blackberry users in the corporate world. The IT department of a lot of companies uses only Blackberry devices because of the security and remote wipe from a BES. I do agree with many of you that it should be put to almost every GSM provider including TMO here in the US. But then how will companies profit? (ATT)

By: Glen

Glen — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:20:46 +0000

Must be alot of fools out there, considering the blackberry is the world’s number 1 selling smartphone

By: Silverface

Silverface — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:00:19 +0000

I think it looks big mostly because of the slide-out KB. I like the way this increases screen size – pics and videos on the 9700 are little tough when it comes to details. The combo of large screen size and slideout KB makes perfect sense – and I’m a business user. If the Storm apps work with it (many of which I really miss on the Bold) I’ll likely get one eventually.

I just went from a Storm to 9700 Bold, and I’d take the Storm any day. I may be in the minority, but I liked the surepress system and the solid screen – mine was dropped 200 times and only the case was scratched. The Bold’s KB is OK but IMO the raised corners of the keys being arranged in a mirror-image format is terrible. If they all faced the same way it’d be 500% easier to type on; I’ve only had it 10 days but I doubt I’ll ever get used to the centrally-located key – I *have* to look at the KB very carefully to figure out where the heck I am.

By: nya2003

nya2003 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:58:17 +0000

wow..no more butt dialing? my friends will finally respect me.

By: saul

saul — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:03:39 +0000

really cool but looks quite big. Need to make it smaller-but bigger than palm pre

By: Simoz

Simoz — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:35:49 +0000

Anyone know if and when we looking at getting this ? Still on the storm 1 not a bad phone but really wanting something better now ….. Hoping it comes down under!

By: anonymous-x

anonymous-x — Mon, 31 May 2010 13:27:32 +0000

T-mobile is a trusting site, if TMO does not get the 9800 there must be a very big reason for this.

By: Kennedy

Kennedy — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:15:30 +0000

Rim has a huge marketshare! how can you be so stupid to say those comments. bud.

By: Black Ice

Black Ice — Wed, 26 May 2010 02:47:49 +0000

I think it’s ugly! And yes I too believe RIM needs to get it’s act together and solve it’s memory problems and stop blaming the people who make 3rd party apps with that lame excuse of memory leaks or else they may loose me too as a customer.

By: mackpee

mackpee — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:52:30 +0000

Great looking phone & the only phone I’ll be replacing my Bold 9000 with.
Touch & qwerty with slide form factor, good size mobile for big hands.
Has everything looking for in a mob & its Blackberry.
Just got to wait til it comes Down Under to the OZ tho.
The wait will be worth it.

By: Donny

Donny — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:00:01 +0000

@Ninja9,
You obviously don’t live in Canada do you?!!

Bell & Telus aslo now have an HSPA network along with their EVDO network; and have since October 2009.

The Bold 9000 & 9700 are available from Rogers Wireless, Bell Mobility, and Telus Mobility; the latter two since October 2009.

Do your research before posting, please.

NOTE: Telus & Bell Mobility only offer 3G on the HSPA network (no GPRS/EDGE).

By: jrejor

jrejor — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:03:53 +0000

as long as the pearl stays gone…. i’m happy.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:15:12 +0000

So ready for this to come out! I am with Verizon and I have an upgrade in July so I CANNOT WAIT for this to come out!

By: PeterVT

PeterVT — Mon, 24 May 2010 12:22:43 +0000

You can see on one of the photos, this phone is running on the Telus network. In previous photos I have seen it also running on the Rogers network.

By: David

David — Mon, 24 May 2010 11:31:46 +0000

touch+qwerty=cool
but looks pretty big in pics /:)
some side-by-side with another BB will be nice