Bold 9650 - What is RIM up to?? (Speculation)
- In regard to RIM/Verizon pulling the Tour2, supposedly after some had already shipped, I know many posters have indicated that it is likely that nothing more than a name change is being done. With this delay/turnaround being a couple of months (and who knows how much longer), isn't it possible that some hardware changes are being made??
I know this is speculation by all of us at this point, but wondering what others think are being done with the devices currently. Perhaps it does take a couple/few months just to change packaging and such and hardware changes may require FCC approval again, however I am sure hoping that we will see more than just a name change! I love the look of the 9700, however I am guessing that is not very likely....
Thoughts?Last edited by ew800; 03-20-10 at 08:40 AM.
03-20-10 08:36 AMLike 0 - Agreed. As much as I want this to be a 9700 on VZW, I have my doubts. Just have a feeling it will be the same phone we have been seeing with no changes, except maybe the battery cover. I hope I'm wrong, but we are probably all up for a let down.03-20-10 09:47 AMLike 0
- the only hardware change that we know of so far is a new battery door and the back saying "Bold" into it. more then likely a leather battery door as well. but everythign else, is still up in the air yet on what else they changed03-20-10 09:48 AMLike 0
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Here's hoping I'm wrong and VZW hands me a CDMA 9700 with a faster processor and more RAM than the current GSM 9700 has. Hey, may as well toss in a 5 MP camera and give it all to me sometime this summer! Yep, one can always dream I suppose...Last edited by Dendrite; 03-20-10 at 12:30 PM. Reason: mis-spelled word
03-20-10 12:25 PMLike 0 - i said it before and i will say it again, if the tour2/bold has the same dimensions as the current tour 9630 then blackberry has lost me as a customer. if it looks like the 9700 then i will stay a crackberrian. there are many nice phones coming out for Sprint this year and when my contract is up blackberry is not the only brand i will be looking into.03-20-10 12:46 PMLike 0
- i said it before and i will say it again, if the tour2/bold has the same dimensions as the current tour 9630 then blackberry has lost me as a customer. if it looks like the 9700 then i will stay a crackberrian. there are many nice phones coming out for Sprint this year and when my contract is up blackberry is not the only brand i will be looking into.
Personally, I couldn't care less about the dimensions as long as there are at least close to the 9630 or 9700, nor do I care for the faux pleather door that some are suggesting will make it a better phone somehow. PLEASE!
However, I am interested in a faster processor, more flash memory and a longer lasting battery, otherwise I have no need for a 9630 with a trackpad and wifi added, or for that matter a 9700 with CDMA added.03-20-10 01:05 PMLike 0 - I suspect you may be right. RIM is not exactly know for revolutionary or "game changing" devices in the supersmart phone world (last one where RIM went "outside the box" being the Storm 1 and we know how that worked out...). A few months ago we seemed to be under the impression that RIM had a warehouse full of 9650s ready to be shipped. Rumor was that a few a them had even showed up in NY stores. If that was the case, what are they going to do with all those units, toss them out back in the dumpster? I kind of doubt it, so you're right- we may be getting the same old 9650 we were expecting in February. The only difference being a new battery door that has Bold stamped on it as well as being loaded up with Verizon's official OS 5.0.0.whatever.
Here's hoping I'm wrong and VZW hands me a CDMA 9700 with a faster processor and more RAM than the current GSM 9700 has. Hey, may as well toss in a 5 MP camera and give it all to me sometime this summer! Yep, one can always dream I suppose...03-20-10 02:58 PMLike 0 - Yeah, that bezel being 2mm wider is a deal breaker for sure.
Personally, I couldn't care less about the dimensions as long as there are at least close to the 9630 or 9700, nor do I care for the faux pleather door that some are suggesting will make it a better phone somehow. PLEASE!
However, I am interested in a faster processor, more flash memory and a longer lasting battery, otherwise I have no need for a 9630 with a trackpad and wifi added, or for that matter a 9700 with CDMA added.03-20-10 04:01 PMLike 0 - Regrettfully, I agree. There is no way they are all going in the dumpster, so I fear that we are just going to see the Tour 2 - just with the new name and many months later than planned. Hope I'm wrong....
Last edited by ew800; 03-20-10 at 05:44 PM.
03-20-10 05:41 PMLike 0 - Yeah, that bezel being 2mm wider is a deal breaker for sure.
Personally, I couldn't care less about the dimensions as long as there are at least close to the 9630 or 9700, nor do I care for the faux pleather door that some are suggesting will make it a better phone somehow. PLEASE!
However, I am interested in a faster processor, more flash memory and a longer lasting battery, otherwise I have no need for a 9630 with a trackpad and wifi added, or for that matter a 9700 with CDMA added.
(ahem, even if I do have to say that if it looks like a 9700 I'll be sorely disappointed. The lack of a bezel will screw me up for a bit, but I'll adapt.)03-20-10 06:59 PMLike 0 - one interesting thing i found out, Sal could not load the newest 9650 OS that leaked onto his pre release tour 2. apparently he couldn't load the latest leaked OS, because the hardware in Sals phone did not comply with the leaked OS.
Perphaps there was some kind of hardware change made in the yet to be release Bold 9650, because i dont see any other reason why the hardware in Sals essex wouldn't match the newest leaked OS, unless the new 9650 coming out has some kind of hardware change in it.
however, i'm not hardware/software expert with blackberry, so i'm kinda just going with what makes sense here, and i'm going to speculate that there is some kind of hardware change that was made between the pre-release essex that Sal had, and the new Bold 9650 coming in the near future.03-20-10 07:33 PMLike 0 -
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Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com03-20-10 09:39 PMLike 0 - At the moment the processor is Qualcomm MSM76xx for 9550/20 or 9650
9700 doesn't use Qualcomm processor since it is a GSM only unit.
9520 uses the MSM76xx as well but they(RIM) lock the CDMA portion thru firmware.03-20-10 09:48 PMLike 0 -
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com03-20-10 10:38 PMLike 0 -
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