Originally Posted by
godzilla07 I can get a day out of a Bold like I can with the 8900 with hard usage. Here's the long rant scathing T-Mobile USA and RIM.
Think about this for a second. The 8900 is on many carriers worldwide, and especially on European and Asian ones, there is no EDGE. There is only GPRS. That's right, GPRS. For you youngin's to the BB world that don't know what GPRS is, GPRS is as fast as your average dial-up connection. GPRS is painfully slow. RIM decided to castrate the 8900's appeal worldwide by not giving it 3G. They didn't give the 8900 3G because they didn't want it to take sales away from the flagship, the Bold. The 8900 has more app memory, a decent camera, a smaller size and a slightly higher resolution screen. I'm sure that everybody would take the 8900 over the Bold if both devices had 3G and I know I would. RIM decided to roll out a high-end device in the year 2009 without 3G. The 8900 is going up against the Nokia E71, and other various WM devices. All of those devices have 3G. That is simply unacceptable. Then there's also the relatively high cost of BIS services in other countries or lack of it at all. But RIM decided to take out a major feature from a high-end device just so its baby, the flagship Bold didn't have its sales taken away from it. I know this is a good strategy but the mind boggles to why RIM released a device without 3G in the year 2009.
Now onto T-Mobile USA. I know that they don't have much of a 3G footprint. But what about the customers that do have 3G? T-Mobile has no 3G device selection really and it's only being built up now. The Bold should have been on T-Mobile. It would have been a big addition to T-Mobile's handset portfolio. But they didn't want it. T-Mobile could have ran the 8900 and Bold side by side like AT&T. The Bold is the device for the power user but T-Mobile didn't want those sales. The 8900 is great but it's not great for a power user because of the lack of one acronym. 3G. I can type more but I'm tired.