BlackBerry 8980 exposed by FCC

Why is RIM wasting their consumers time with this old technology? Time to get with it.. Seriously, they’re going to ask themselves in a few years from now what happened to us, cause we used to be the top of the chain… They’re doing nothing in my eyes that’s helping them go in the right direction. Start making a quality device, with quality parts and a great OS and stop wasting time making 1,000 different devices. Enough said. Answers are simple, RIM is drowning themselves with no help from their competitors. I’m still using a 9780, but if RIM doesn’t fix their act quickly, I’ll be jumping ship to Apple or even Android devices.

Apparently 90% of the people commenting on this article are unable to understand the concept of an entry level smartphone.

Wow! Another Curve running the awesome OS 5!!! I can’t wait to get my hands on one of these.
/sarcasm

This device just oozes FAIL. The parallels between RIM and Palm are so clear only a fool, or RIM CEO couldn’t see it. Palm finally came out way too late with their new OS and what did that get them, dead last in the smartphone market. RIM is destin for the same fate, except they may retain a few corporate BES users, but that will be it. The consumer market is slowing slipping away as other innovate and RIM stagnates.

prolly will have a 600mhz CPU to win over the nerds..h8 u RIM!

Listen up, all of you Blackberry Morons. Can you seriously be oogling any new BB coming out? Are you really that stupid that you’d trade in your old 8703e for this? Why? Tell us what this does that your old 8703e didn’t do? Watch movies? You don’t care about that. Listen to music? You don’t care about that. Surf the web? You don’t care about that? The fact is, the whole time you Blackberry Maroons have said ‘it does what I want it to do..email, text, messenger. Period.’ That’s out of YOUR moronic mouths, mind you. This ‘new’ phone is your old 8703e wrapped in a new skin and will likely be BOGO the day it’s released. Blackberry Morons: The Tech ‘Tards of the 21st century.

Well I guess Blackberry felt the need for another free phone offering in their lineup.

Since even their “Flagship” devices are being given away these days or at next to nothing whats the point of this device? The Bold 9k was a true market leader years ago and Blackberry is still pumping phones with the same hardware as it, propped up by better cameras and more memory.

2011 Will either see the new market leading phone from them or it will be what everyone else is saying, I hope it’s not the latter.

Looks just like a Bold to me. There is good and bad for BB users. I am forced to mind for corporate use, but can honestly tell you that for a personal phone, I would never chose or consider BB. That said, I can say that I have few problems with my Bold. It makes calls, gets email, allows me to do basic social networking sites, etc.

If the market of this phone is for corporate use, I think it hits the mark. It fits easily into my pocket and allows me to do the limited stuff I need to do on a phone. It’s not flashy, but sometimes it is refreshing to just have a phone.

For me, I think this will be a perfect upgrade from my Curve 8330. My wife has the 9700 with OS 5 and I like it a lot. My only problem with it is the keyboard (9700). I can type quite a bit faster on my 8330 because the keys are a bit more spread out. It appears this will 9700 with a better keyboard (IMO). I’m quite fine with OS 5. Not sure just how much better OS 6 really would be anyway. I think iPhones are toys with apps you’d barely use, and they’re more difficult to type on with accuracy.

Bottom line for me is that Blackberry’s are still the preferred messaging devices – I can burn off messages back and forth pretty fast on a Blackberry. If you want to surf the web, I guess you’d go with Android or an iPhone. I still prefer to use my laptop for web surfing. I hope this has a better screen resolution than the Curve 9300.

Its time for a phone….to save us….from our phones

Unbelievable…. It’s shameful that RIMM is presumably shipping new devices, in 2011 for that matter, with an old OS. Now… if it’s shipping with the old OS is assumable that the specs are going to be that of 2010 and not 2011. That has been my biggest gripe with Blackberry devices; the lack of upgraded internal beef. How is it possible, that with memory being so cheap, coupled with the fact that RIMM doesn’t allow third party app storage on a removable memory card, these new devices are being shipped with ONLY 512MB of RAM and the new benchmark Blackberry Torch has only 624 MHz processor!?
The folks over at RIMM better start acknowledging the fact that smartphone devices are a dynamic luxury and cater to the fact that more and more people and downloading more and more apps and are integrating their mobile devices into their lives more than ever before.

I actually wanted the Bold keyboard over my old 8900′s separated keyboard. I know it’s part of the Curve design theme, but the separated keys just look out of place on the 9700-esque design. Everything’s angular while the keys are curvy.

It will be interesting to see if they put the HVGA screen of the 8900 or the QVGA screen of the 85xx in this 8980. The Curve 8900 always seemed to be the odd one out because it was basically a slimmer, sexier Bold minus the lack of 3G. It didn’t seem downmarket enough for a Curve and yet it wasn’t flagship Bold material because of the lack of 3G.

If RIM intends to keep this downmarket merely by leaving it at Blackberry OS 5, then that’s utterly pathetic. OS 6 should’ve been released LAST year, otherwise so many Blackberry die-hards wouldn’t have jumped ship to Android or iOS.

Please upgrade the 8350 Nextel Phone! it still uses the trackball and has not been touch in years!

3.2 MP camera?!? OS 5.0?!? Wow this phone sounds amazing 3 years ago

Another “new” blackberry that looks exactly like the “old” blackberrys. Come RIM, get with it! Stop it with the minor make-overs already, or is this your way of telling me “stick to your 8300″?

Black Berry.. where every phone looks exactly the same since, what? 2003? Also, the confusing numbering system RIM uses, I could not even begin to know which model is new and one that is 4 years old. Watch the RIM numbers tumble over the next year. It’s over Johnny…

The Curve’s keyboard is and has always been better than the Bold’s. The “island” keys are easier to type on.

yes yes to airbuy.. the keyboard on this one is amazing to type on. i wish rim would make one just like this but 4g os6 for t-mobile usa,

when i owned a 8320. i could type super fast with both hands also even “single handed with out looking at the phone”. the new bold keyboard is just plain weird to me,

my dream berry “non-touch (yuck)” is one that looks just like this: but with os6, 5mp or 8.1mp camera, thinner, 4G t-mobile. and ill be hooked!

by the way i got big fat thumbs i never had a problem with this style keyboard. but when i tried the new bold keyboard i ended up hitting two buttons instead of one because there is no space in between the keys like the island style curve keyboard

Blackberry OS 5? Come on RIM!

I worked for RIM for 5 years, I began my journey about 6 months prior to the first Pearl launch. It seemed that RIM could do nothing wrong but I was way wrong. The Curve was a great design until everything RIM developed began to look like the Curve, it drove me and the customers crazy. I advised the development team at RIM that they are heading down the same road Palm did by putting out the same design over and over again and not staying ahead of the curve (excuse the pun). The marketing team RIM uses (MarketStar) is afraid to tell RIM what they really think because they are really afraid of losing the account. The reports are full of fluff and even edited to remove any “real” comments before they land on the desk of RIM. I could go on for days about how RIM has painted themselves into a very bad corner of the smartphone market when they once owned the whole store.

a fail in so many levels.. having an older version OS on the a upcoming blackberry and having a 3.2 mp is just an insult to there consumers.. shame on them

They still intend to introduce old handsets to the market as new in 2011?? What are they thinking. Very worried about RIM. The most interesting thing I have seen from them is the Playbook. But they need a 1Ghz+, 5-8mp, 4.x” screen unit as well to even be on par with the other handset manufacturers.