[donniebyers]

This is what you foos have been waitin' for, so get your credit cards ready!!1 lol.

Sprint sez BlackBerry Curve 8330 still on track for this month - Engadget Mobile

[Tritan]

Rock on , I was gone all weekend and this just made the weekend better !!

New pic there too.


Going to check the store today and see what they say .I should print out the sprint article.

[sapter5361]

Can anyone out there confirm if the phone's really out?

RIM put out a press release on Apr 1 announcing the imminent release of the Curve on the Sprint network. Since then, you had Sprint constantly sending us mixes signals as to when they really plan on putting it out there.

I've seen some reports here on BBF from Sprint customers all saying that acording to Sprint CS the phone's to be out today, the 20th of April. So far there is no sign of it on Sprint's website.

I'm thinking that maybe there's an internal conflict going on there between reps of Rim and Sprint respectively. Rim announced the Curve's release on their website because they understood it to be ok with Sprint. However, Sprint, upon learning about the imminent release of OS 4.5 wanted to tweak their themes and other inerfaces so that the new phone should come with the new OS preinstalled, and, by so doing, give Sprint a publicity boost by having the first official phone preloaded w/ the new OS.

[DINide]

i called corp sales today to upgrade 2 of my phones to the new curve. the salesperson told me the phone hasn't released, and to "expect it in a FEW months."

[Tritan]

Lots of reports on crackberry saying they called telesales and they are backing what Engadget reported (end of the month).

Here is a quto:Was just told on the phone that the launch date is the 28th... I guess that remark from sites that "It will be released at the END OF THE MONTH" would still hold true then.
(another week to wait... sigh):mad

[jtdarden]

Originally Posted by sapter5361

However, Sprint, upon learning about the imminent release of OS 4.5 wanted to tweak their themes and other inerfaces so that the new phone should come with the new OS preinstalled, and, by so doing, give Sprint a publicity boost by having the first official phone preloaded w/ the new OS.

That is a big stretch on the speculation front.

There is absolutely no way that Sprint would release with 4.5 OS, especially because it is not even ready for public beta. Wishful thinking perhaps, but definitely not going to happen.

The delay is most likely due to quality assurance.

[edbern]

Originally Posted by DINide

i called corp sales today to upgrade 2 of my phones to the new curve. the salesperson told me the phone hasn't released, and to "expect it in a FEW months."

OK, just got a clear message from Telesales after they spoke with supervisors. I trust Telesales the most since they are motivated to sell. "It will be about another week," she said, because of "EV-DO programming issues." I asked if that meant exactly one week, she said, "It looks like May 1."

The specifics of the issue, and the exact date, and the time it took her to get the answer from the supervisor, all give this one credibility.

Certainly debunks the notion of June or "months."

[donniebyers]

hey, after waiting a year, what's another week or two? lol.

my friend has an 8703e, and he's been waiting on pins and needles for the last few months for the curve because I kept raving about the original 8300 version I had briefly before I ended my contract with ATT.

He wants the 8330 so bad he's starting to freak. lol.

I'm actually waiting on the mythical slider. those clownz over at ATT better not have exclusive first year rights either. I would have to seriously consider switching to some other phone if that were to happen...

[lamonicaj]

According to 'The Sprint Store" website, the release date is not until 06.01.08

Welcome to TheSprintStore

[hcheun]

Originally Posted by lamonicaj

According to 'The Sprint Store" website, the release date is not until 06.01.08

Welcome to TheSprintStore

It's a preferred partner, which i hold a grain of salt to, though I will wait till next week to see.

Otherwise, it seems clear, regardless, there is some sort of delay obviously with this launch. Hopefully they can meet their "before end of month .. APRIL" deadline.

[stargurl84]

Originally Posted by Tritan

Rock on , I was gone all weekend and this just made the weekend better !!

New pic there too.
http://www.engadget.com/media/2008/0...8-bbcurve2.jpg

Going to check the store today and see what they say .I should print out the sprint article.

Gorgeous phone

[sapter5361]

Originally Posted by jtdarden

That is a big stretch on the speculation front.

There is absolutely no way that Sprint would release with 4.5 OS, especially because it is not even ready for public beta. Wishful thinking perhaps, but definitely not going to happen.

The delay is most likely due to quality assurance.

Some other factors you may want to take into account:

-Apr 1: RIM announces Curve added to Sprint's portfolio of RIM devices.
-Apr 15: RIM officially releases BES v4.1 SP5 (available for download on their website), which, among other things, adds server-side HTML email capability to the bb platform - OS 4.5 adds client-side HTML.
-May 1: Sprint PR reps confirm to folks @ engadget.com that Curve will be released on or prior to this date.
-May 13: opening of WES 2008 in Orlando, FL. RIM calles it "the biggest BlackBerry® conference of the year". This event is when RIM usually announces and releases new products.
-May 14: RIM @ WES 2008: Tracks & Sessions announces a special session to be held @ 4:15PM called: "Introducing Unified Application Management in BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0". This is supposed to be the big one improvement to go hand-in-hand with OS 4.5.

Is all this coincidence?

[Tritan]

I stopped by the local store and he showed me his rebate form from now till May 31 and there is no Curve on the horizon. He did state they could have changed it at the last minute and then they will change the rebate form next week.

[edbern]

Originally Posted by Tritan

I stopped by the local store and he showed me his rebate form from now till May 31 and there is no Curve on the horizon. He did state they could have changed it at the last minute and then they will change the rebate form next week.

Not so, the Curve (listed as 8330) is most certainly on the rebate form. Look: http://www.nextel.com/assets/pdfs/en...mir_042008.pdf

Also, the most credible version of where Curve status is with Sprint is right here (I think thesprintstore is actually quite credible...). I'd bet money on his version of things - basically May 7. Click on this: TheSprintStore

[Tritan]

Best Buy - Weekly Ad Specials

check this out ! If this is real it won't be long.

[Tritan]

YouTube - Sprint Curve utube of the curve on sprint.

[ERDude]

Originally Posted by edbern

Not so, the Curve (listed as 8330) is most certainly on the rebate form. Look: http://www.nextel.com/assets/pdfs/en...mir_042008.pdf

Also, the most credible version of where Curve status is with Sprint is right here (I think thesprintstore is actually quite credible...). I'd bet money on his version of things - basically May 7. Click on this: TheSprintStore

This guy is so credible that after being called out for fraudulent activities on another forum he has taken all of his sites.