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BGR Interview's Sprint's Fared Adib, hints at Bold 9930
- BGR just published an interview with Sprint's VP of Product Development, and when questions about Sprint carrying the Bold Touch 9930, Fared had this to say:
"The bottom line is that we have a good relationship with them; we’re one of their key partners around the world. They’re a platform company, and whenever they offer a platform they typically offer it to all carriers, so I’ll just leave it at that. It’s like the Curve… it’s a global platform. Bold has also been a global platform. It’s very rare that they do something that’s unique to just one carrier and if they do that, they typically don’t announce it in a global event like that. So I’ll just leave it at that, and you can extrapolate form there."
My take from these comments are that the Bold Touch will be available to all and Sprint should be offering this phone. No word on release date or anything, but just thought I would share and look for other interpretations of the stated comment. Also, here is the link for the entire interview:
http://http://www.bgr.com/2011/05/11...nt-fared-adib/05-11-11 10:38 AMLike 0 - That is Great to hear from Sprint. I'm ready for the phone to drop. I am glad that Sprint & RIM have a "Good" relationship.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com05-11-11 10:50 AMLike 0 - Could we also go as far from his comments, that the Bold Touch will be going to all Carriers, and then there would still be exclusives like the Torch 2 for ATT and The Monaco for Verizon. It might explain why they only announced the Bold Touch at BBW. The Carrier exclusives will get announced later and closer to their launch dates05-11-11 11:43 AMLike 0
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- I wish Sprint would just announce, "Yes, we will be carrying the Bold 9930 and will be releasing it shortly" and not all the legaleese of cannot confirm or deny or extrapolate lol
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com05-11-11 05:16 PMLike 0 - Could we also go as far from his comments, that the Bold Touch will be going to all Carriers, and then there would still be exclusives like the Torch 2 for ATT and The Monaco for Verizon. It might explain why they only announced the Bold Touch at BBW. The Carrier exclusives will get announced later and closer to their launch dates05-12-11 02:58 AMLike 0
- 05-12-11 02:59 AMLike 0
- I'm personally done with Sprint this Summer. Their only plan for the future right now is to oppose the T-Mobile/AT&T merger. The Clearwire partnership is a disaster and WiMax will make them an oddball with most of the world. The Nextel network should have been killed off and the spectrum reharvested and they could be deploying LTE on that spectrum right now, but they just signed a three year extension to keep that network running. Combine that with their constant adding new fees here and there and they are pricing themselves out of the Family Plan market and I just don't see a positive future. I've been with them 10 years now and CDMA was awesome and light years ahead when compared to 2G GSM, but now that 3G GSM is CDMA based, and so is HSPA, they lost that edge.05-12-11 08:52 AMLike 0
- I understand your frustration, but Sprint even with it's $10.00 per smartphone increase is still less expensive than At&t or Verizon and on par with T-Mobile. My fiance and I have the BlackBerry 1500 mins data plan and it's $129.00, Verizon charges $120.00 for just ONE device AND you can only use the mobile to mobile on Verizon phones, unlike Sprint, where you can call ANY mobile phone for free. I think Sprint seeing that 4G isnt going to be available to most of the US until later this year or even next year, now is deffirring the cost as $10.00 extra per every smartphone, instead of what they where trying to do originally by charging $10.00 4G data on the Evo when it was 1st released. but again, overall...Sprint IS less expensive than At&t or Verizon.05-12-11 09:16 AMLike 0
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(just kidding about the Style 9670, my fiance has it and loves it, it really is a decent little device)
05-12-11 09:28 AMLike 0 - I understand your frustration, but Sprint even with it's $10.00 per smartphone increase is still less expensive than At&t or Verizon and on par with T-Mobile. My fiance and I have the BlackBerry 1500 mins data plan and it's $129.00, Verizon charges $120.00 for just ONE device AND you can only use the mobile to mobile on Verizon phones, unlike Sprint, where you can call ANY mobile phone for free. I think Sprint seeing that 4G isnt going to be available to most of the US until later this year or even next year, now is deffirring the cost as $10.00 extra per every smartphone, instead of what they where trying to do originally by charging $10.00 4G data on the Evo when it was 1st released. but again, overall...Sprint IS less expensive than At&t or Verizon.
Last edited by lnichols; 05-12-11 at 10:29 AM.
05-12-11 10:26 AMLike 0 - I'd call customer service and speak to a supervisor, tell them that you want to stay with Sprint and tell them what price you want to keep it at, and what plan(s) you need. Who knows? They may be able to work out somthing comparable to the other carriers. They want to keep their current subscribers and will work with you, I'm sure they don't wanna lose a good customer because of a few dollars. Call them, it isn't gonna hurt, right?
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com05-12-11 11:06 AMLike 0 - I'd call customer service and speak to a supervisor, tell them that you want to stay with Sprint and tell them what price you want to keep it at, and what plan(s) you need. Who knows? They may be able to work out somthing comparable to the other carriers. They want to keep their current subscribers and will work with you, I'm sure they don't wanna lose a good customer because of a few dollars. Call them, it isn't gonna hurt, right?
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com05-12-11 01:32 PMLike 0 - I'm sure Sprint will be on par with the other big 3...they wouldn't drag their heels while everyone else is passing them by...I myself believe that Sprint will be 4G ready by next year, and that by extension, RIM will rebound with the Bold 9900/9930 this year to carry over to the QNX 4G OS they'll have. So when the Bold 9930 is released. On Sprint, I will be confident that I will have the best BlackBerry device on a carrier that WILL keep improving.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com05-12-11 05:26 PMLike 0 - I understand your frustration, but Sprint even with it's $10.00 per smartphone increase is still less expensive than At&t or Verizon and on par with T-Mobile. My fiance and I have the BlackBerry 1500 mins data plan and it's $129.00, Verizon charges $120.00 for just ONE device AND you can only use the mobile to mobile on Verizon phones, unlike Sprint, where you can call ANY mobile phone for free. I think Sprint seeing that 4G isnt going to be available to most of the US until later this year or even next year, now is deffirring the cost as $10.00 extra per every smartphone, instead of what they where trying to do originally by charging $10.00 4G data on the Evo when it was 1st released. but again, overall...Sprint IS less expensive than At&t or Verizon.05-12-11 06:44 PMLike 0
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