Rumor and confirmed= oxymoron, but this is was reported on BlackBerry Cool's website and it says it is from an ENGINEER at Sprint:
Sometimes you need to post a poorly researched rumor in order to get the real details. Recently, an engineer at Sprint confirmed the following details about the Sprint BlackBerry Niagara:
The BlackBerry Niagara is slated to launch in Q3 and will have the following specs:
EVDOrA
GSM 850, 900,1800,1900and UMTS 2100 (japan)
International Data will support GPRS, EDGE, UMTS & HSPA
3MP Camera
1400 MA Battery
Verizon will launch the device before Sprint because they are basically just paying for the Broadcom patent infringement to use the chipset in its existing form. Sprint wants the re-engineering effort to happen so they don�t have to pay the Broadcom fee so their launch will be a little later.
well just like anything else we will see, but yes I have herd also that the varient of the "bold" sprint will be getting is infact the Niagra so in every rumor there is an element of the truth
That is so true!! Verizon Bold'ers will get the glitches and get pissed while we work out the problems Verizon has and release a better Bold product!!
I don't think that there will be many glicthes. The BOLD is awesome and AT&T has had it out for a while now, if anything I am pretty sure that Verizon knows the issues (if any) that the phone had with AT&T. Just my thought.
I don't think that there will be many glicthes. The BOLD is awesome and AT&T has had it out for a while now, if anything I am pretty sure that Verizon knows the issues (if any) that the phone had with AT&T. Just my thought.
We'll you have to remember too that sprint has to flash their software onto it too.
Everybody's curve was great before we got ours but it did not have pic messaging.
Swaping over to a different cell service provides a whole boatload of issues.
I would imagine
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We'll you have to remember too that sprint has to flash their software onto it too.
Everybody's curve was great before we got ours but it did not have pic messaging.
Swaping over to a different cell service provides a whole boatload of issues.
I would imagine
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Yep, it's not even just the software. CDMA phones use different hardware than the GSM phones, so it's an entirely different beast and you can end up with different problems as a result.
Verizon makes changes/restrictions to their phone's that Sprint does not, so Verizon debugging their own issues isn't necessarily buying Sprint users anything...
Yeah I was on the vzw website and I guess someone wants to start a class action lawsuit against them for blocking all gps but theirs.
I have always wondered if I got a garmin software for my phone is it still the phone gps or is it a stand alone gps.
I would just like to know if when using the garmin software I lose reception will I lose gps directions?
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If u go on the Garmin website(BB products) the offer a few diff versions of GPS softwear one version come with a GPS reciver that u plug into the phone, so I really could have it work ethior way but useing the seperate recivor would free up ur devices resources
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You could use the Garmin software with your Verizon phone, but thanks to Verizon's naziesque locking down of the built-in gps, you'd have to get an external gps receiver. The way it works is, it only has a (relatively) small app on your phone that controls the gps and the rendering of the maps... The app polls the Garmin servers for the map and the route info though, so if you lose cell service you lose the connection to the Garmin server, and all the map/route info.
The gps puck that comes with the Garmin Mobile app is bluetooth (as are most 3rd party gps pucks).
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Yep, it's not even just the software. CDMA phones use different hardware than the GSM phones, so it's an entirely different beast and you can end up with different problems as a result.
Verizon makes changes/restrictions to their phone's that Sprint does not, so Verizon debugging their own issues isn't necessarily buying Sprint users anything...
Exactly. For one, you can't compare GSM tecnhology with CDMA technology and for two, obviously Sprint is going to have different software, so when Sprint flashes their software onto the device, it'll be pretty much like 1st gen.
Hopefully the GPS hardware won't only work when the CDMA radio is used like on the 8830's, and hopefully its real GPS. The GPS systems in the GSM versions of the Blackberry devices are much more accurate than the GPS in the CDMA phones.
Can't wait for Sprint to get a new World capable blackberry with a camera. These specs look promising if they are true.
Also I doubt there will be any re-engineering... It is expected that Qualcomm will just end up in a licensing agreement with Broadcomm. That's what the analysts are predicting anyway.
I don't think that there will be many glicthes. The BOLD is awesome and AT&T has had it out for a while now, if anything I am pretty sure that Verizon knows the issues (if any) that the phone had with AT&T. Just my thought.
The only thing is this ISN'T the Bold - it is a Bold variant. Reviewing the specs demonstrates that there are significant changes from the Bold.
