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Verizon Wireless Gets its Mitts on BlackBerry 8830 World Phone - Gizmodo

"The 8830 looks like the 8800 and will pack a QVGA screen, microSD slot, and 3G EV-DO support. The bad news (to me at least) is that there's no camera."

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[xxaarraa]

Have to see the silver in person to form an opinion. It could either be really slick or really toy looking. CDMA/GSM hybrid?

[Jagga]

Nice Find ... wondering if the GSM slot will be locked, or do you have to call to inform of such travels to GSM only land.

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Originally Posted by xxaarraa

CDMA/GSM hybrid?

Check out the image, "world edition"...this is the rumored one that works on both networks...

[Pizzle]

***moving to Rumor Mill***

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original story: Verizon Wireless gets RIM BlackBerry 8830 Cyclone CDMA/GSM hybrid world-phone (phone Arena)

[ArgonNJ]

I don't like Silver phones in general.

[Outrigger]

Originally Posted by Jagga

Nice Find ... wondering if the GSM slot will be locked, or do you have to call to inform of such travels to GSM only land.

the GSM band of verizon phones will only work outside of U.S. so you cannot use it on cingular or tmobile. In the U.S. it will only work on verizon's network. This isn't their first "world" phone. They have a couple of samsungs thats also dual band, but only CDMA in U.S.

[jwolf7722]

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry7130e/4.1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/104)

Any news on a date or when it might come to sprint?

[UserInVa]

Originally Posted by test

Verizon Wireless Gets its Mitts on BlackBerry 8830 World Phone - Gizmodo

"The 8830 looks like the 8800 and will pack a QVGA screen, microSD slot, and 3G EV-DO support. The bad news (to me at least) is that there's no camera."

edit: http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/.../8830front.jpg

Looks great, but no camera.

[whoscalling]

IMO Black and silver looks much better

[BryanHarig]

Originally Posted by Jagga

Nice Find ... wondering if the GSM slot will be locked, or do you have to call to inform of such travels to GSM only land.

Every single one of their previous CDMA/GSM world phones has been locked to vodaphone internationally.


It looks awful in silver, I really hope Sprint brings theirs out in black.

[dwp1975]

looks just like the silver Q minus the crappy OS...

[junior1790]

funny hoe the screen says fri may 25, this may 25 is a fri.... mmmmmm

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Originally Posted by junior1790

funny hoe the screen says fri may 25, this may 25 is a fri.... mmmmmm

thats funny, I didn't even think to look at that. The date on the calendar icon is 25 as well...every bb I had would only show a 31 on that icon...

[jungleland]

Originally Posted by junior1790

funny hoe the screen says fri may 25, this may 25 is a fri.... mmmmmm

They all say may 25th, every press picture RIM puts out says the same thing.... 12:21 pm, Friday may 25th...(virtually every picture)...

[trevor1189]

This should have been posted here:
http://www.blackberryforums.com/rumo...rld-phone.html
No need to have multiple rumor threads on the same phone. Maybe a mod could merge

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Originally Posted by trevor1189

This should have been posted here:
http://www.blackberryforums.com/rumo...rld-phone.html
No need to have multiple rumor threads on the same phone. Maybe a mod could merge

Yea, I saw that. I originally posted this in the 8800 forum because it seemed a little more concrete then just "rumors"...

What does it take to get out of the rumor mill?

[trevor1189]

Originally Posted by test

Yea, I saw that. I originally posted this in the 8800 forum because it seemed a little more concrete then just "rumors"...

What does it take to get out of the rumor mill?

IMO it seems that once the device is launched (ie. on sale) then it doesn't belong in rumor mill. Rumor mill is for discussion of prerelease devices, even if they are guaranteed to be released.

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Originally Posted by trevor1189

IMO it seems that once the device is launched (ie. on sale) then it doesn't belong in rumor mill. Rumor mill is for discussion of prerelease devices, even if they are guaranteed to be released.

Thats what I was thinking, but then I remembered the 8300 got its own section well before launch...oh well live an learn...they should combine them