Rogers launches Motorola Flipout and BlackBerry Curve 9300

By on Aug 4, 2010 at 2:35 PM
General August 4, 2010

Here’s a little update for the folks north of the border. Rogers has added both the BlackBerry Curve 9300 and the Motorola Flipout to their handset lineup. The Curve 9300 will be available for $79.99 with a three-year contract or for $399.99 contract free. The Cliff’s Notes on the 9300 read like this: quad-band GSM, tri-band HSPA, Wi-Fi b/g/n, GPS, 2.4-inch screen (320 x 240), 256 MB RAM, 2 megapixel camera, and BlackBerry OS 5. The Motorola Flipout will be available for $29.99 with a three-year contract or for $374.99 contract free. The stat sheet on the Flipout is as follows: quad-band GSM, dual-band HSPA, 2.8-inch QVGA touch-screen display, QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, GPS, Android 2.1, and MOTOBLUR. Anyone up north going after one of these mid-range smartphones?

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  • zephxiii

    Blackberry Fail 9300!! YAY!!

  • romes

    zzzzzzz…

  • winston smith

    really? i mean really? canadians get screwed by their phone companies.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

    • Baester

      Better the phone companies than the government.

  • Tdot34

    $79.99 for a 3 year contract…. Robbers is at it again! Should be $29.99 for the Curve. Considering a Bold 9700 is $99.99 and will be dropping soon.

  • Android

    OMG. Goodbye RIMM. The next Palm. My bet is MS takes over RIM within a year.

    • Android

      Palm tried to pretty up their buyout value by pushing out WebOS and the Pre. Great ideas all around. Rim’s buyout value is dropping by the billions daily, and this is the best they come up with. OMG. Goodbye RIMM.

    • RealDeal

      RIM’s revenue was only up 35% last year and they only turned a $2.5B profit. How can they possibly continue to operate with numbers like that, they might as well close up shop.

      • Android

        That was last year. Starting this quarter, they’ll be lucky to make a profit at all.

      • Shelton

        And whys that???? Because they’re starting to release a better product line? Or maybe its because they’ve started a huge marketing campaign highlighting bbm. Oh silly me I know its because they are going to stop making bes’s and suggest everyone switches to activesync and mobile me.

      • Android

        Dude, they’re over, gone, never to be seen again. It’s not that hard to understand. Android reigns supreme.

      • RealDeal

        You’re right, Q1 reveneues for this year only up 24% from last years horrible Q1, the end is near!!!! Maybe I can find enough change in my couch to buy RIM.

      • Android

        I would wait to buy RIMM at about $22.87 a share before the end of the year. You won’t need to find too much change, Rim sure didn’t.

      • Shelton

        Whys that???? Give me one Figure that shows android is going to outsell Rim. Cause Right now Rim is outselling them. Has them beat in the corporate structure, which if you know anything about phone companies accounts for 80% of sales. The Android and Iphone os is nice but the hardware is expensive, has excessive data usage, and is more toy then tool.

      • Android

        Unfortunately, against your argument, the Torch will have the same data plans as the advanced phones. Kin-redux.

      • Kicker

        Yes, but don’t you know…the Torch can handle data way better than any Android or iPhone ever will for a long time. Using less data = savings for the customer. And at $199.99…can’t go wrong.

      • Tdot34

        True BlackBerry’s use 1/6th the data of Android or iPhones because of Data compression, so a company that would need a 6GB plan on a normal phone, only needs a 1GB plan for a BlackBerry. Saving them money.

      • The Blitz

        Do you own an Android device or iPhone? If not, how are you making your presumption that they are more “toy than tool”?

        http://www.androidcentral.com/npd-android-takes-lead-over-blackberry-q2-fanboys-rejoice-everywhere

  • iMiiTH

    LOL. $400? and the 8520 is $450?

    What is wrong with rogers.

    Oh right, they’re the one that sells the Pearl for $425, while Bell sells it for $330, unbranded.

    • Tdot34

      But but the Rogers version has a sweet red and black version, that must make it faster. So obviously it must sell for more.

  • pat motodroid

    I can’t live without a physical keyboard, my fingers are too fat and slow.

  • Topher86

    I wonder why RIM even came up w/ the 9300….

    • Tdot34

      Carriers wanted a low price smartphone.

      • Topher86

        But isn’t that what 8530/20 is for?

      • BB_Addict

        This is the 85xx series replacement AFAIK.

      • badonkadonk

        The 8520 is 2G-only, this model is 2G/3G. Its basically the 9700 with a QVGA screen and lower-res camera, intended to replace the 83xx family of devices, that happened to be the best-selling BlackBerry devices ever. I’m sure this will do well.

      • Shelton

        30 is CDMA 20 is GSM

      • RealDeal

        This will run OS6

      • The Blitz

        Not with only 256MB RAM…

  • Chut Pata

    When will the people of North America be free from companies like Robber’s Wireless. When will we have freedom like Europe and Asia. Why can’t government legislate Blackberry to not sell via Robber’s Wireless only, and Apple via AT&T only? Given these crooks in parliament and senate are bankrolled by these corporate bodies, we are the ones who gave our worthless votes.

  • Max

    Phones like this are perfect for the Blackberry Moronic Masses. They eat this stuff up. See they’re not exactly what we like to call ‘edjumicated’.

  • rob21i

    WOW More of the same!!!

  • Mr. Bill

    Pay as you go phones for the Robbers carrier.

    No offence to the thrifty minded, but these are trash.

    The Big 3 in Canada are flogging the low end stuff with Apples offering included.

  • Mike

    IMHO,
    I think RIM wants to position this phone between 8520 and 9700.

    8520 only has 2G. If u don’t like this phone go with..
    9300 that has 3G but lower res than..
    9700 that’s on the top line product

    CMIIW.

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