T-Mobile BlackBerry Bold 9900 could launch on August 31st

By on Aug 2, 2011 at 8:10 PM
mobile August 2, 2011

RIM officially revealed the BlackBerry Bold 9900 earlier this year during its annual BlackBerry World tradeshow and now it appears carriers are finally preparing to launch the phone. PhoneArena has obtained a leaked internal T-Mobile screenshot that suggests the phone will become available on August 31st. It also mentions that there will be a $50 mail-in rebate but does not confirm the subsidized price of the Bold 9900. BlackBerry fans will appreciate the device’s thinner design, more powerful hardware, and revamped BlackBerry 7 operating system, but this device doesn’t stray far from those that came before it. We expect we’ll hear more of a confirmation on its official launch date in the coming weeks.

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  • Anonymous

    nice

    • Back to its roots

      Yes. Looks good for conservative no nonsense corporate e-mail user.  Should sell well into that heartland.

  • Anonymous

    This will be my first blackberry.
    Sick and tired of carrying a charger for my Nexus One.

    • Anonymous

      If your getting a BB because of having to carry a charger around all the time with your nexus one. Then all evo 4g, thunderbolt, droid x, galaxy s, atrix, inspire and captivate owers must have the same problem cause the battery in all them phones SUCK. Along with the shitty os that’s on them.

      • Guest

        u been licking apples ass for too long n now u think everything tastes shitty.

    • Anonymous

      Best of luck to you… You gonna need it if you switch to a BB… RIM is a sinking Titanic. With that said, now do you want to jump out of your smooth sail boat with all the hotties and get on the Titanic cause they got a coal burning steam engines? It is 2011… Come on now… 

      • Applesucksfatties

        Yeah..  3 billion in cash on the balance sheet and a slew of new phones coming out this year and the QNX superphones coming out next year..  only a dipshit would think they are sinking!!

      • Anonymous

        Hey ding dong… it’s 2.39 billion and not 3 billion. Big difference.. Cash goes a long way, but not forever. You can eat up cash easily as your sales are plummeting and your slice on the pie chart goes from almost half moon to “I am on a diet” girls slice. The company has been downgraded across the board… Hack, you can value it anyway you want but the market decides on the price. Titanic was unsinkable, Bear Stearns was in good financial health, too. 

        I am an ex-BB dude that used it for 7 years. Slew of new phones with marginal specs that could only catch up with whats been out there for 1 year. QNX, will most likely be delayed, delayed again and guess what delayed again. But you hang in there… Wait it out. Brick breaker is a great game to pass time..

      • TD

        Shrinking slice of the pie.. but the pie slices are getting bigger across the board.  It’s only normal for people to jump to new options when new options become available… that’s the nature of competition.  RIM still has much potential for growth.  

      • Applesucksfatties

        or i can get an iPhone…put a pretty phone condom on it so I can get reception, download a bunch of useless apps, and sit in Starbucks drinking my mocha while trying to look cool with God’s gift to smartphones in my hand.. no thanks!!!!

        ps.  RIM has little to no debt, positive income from operations (even while selling year old handsets), and 7 new handsets dropping this year on a ton of carriers globally (don’t forget the 3G/4G version of the PlayBook).   My prediction, RIM’s earnings take off, their stock jumps back up to the $80-90 range…and naysayers like you are left eating crow.

        pss.. don’t even have brickbreaker on my Bold 9000

  • http://twitter.com/kentuckyloan Joel Lobb

    Believe when I see it. 

  • http://twitter.com/fredacampos fredacampos

    Ooooo, this is as exciting as that one time when I went to Walmart to buy some toilet paper. Blackberry wow, can’t wait!!

    • Applesucksfatties

      have you been using your hand to wipe your ass since….considering you’ve only been to “Walmart one time to buy toilet paper”?

      • Commenteer

        Zing perfection!!!

      • http://twitter.com/fredacampos fredacampos

        Nah, your mama licked my ass clean.  And then kissed you in the mouth.

      • Applesucksfatties

        And to think her breath is still better than yours.   I’m guessing the reason why your breath smells so bad though is because you always have your nose up Steve Jobs ass….

      • Guest

        u r dumb as an ass wipe

      • Applesucksfatties

        Good one dipshit…   My nephew in 3rd grade could come up with a better comeback than that.  

    • Applesucksfatties

      Plus, I find it hard to believe you have only been to Walmart once.  You seem like one of those toothless jackwagons that hangs out in Walmart.

  • Ismileo

    finally, very excited for this. not having angry birds on my phone is not a deal breaker. woot woot!

  • sirpaul

    Such a beauty of a phone! I hate touch screen keyboard on my iPhone…hope they make some sort of slider soon.

    • Anonymous

      Slide a cactus into your asshole.

      • sirpaul

        Better yet – stick a cactus to your ScroatUM! Bet you’d like that :)

      • Anonymous

        Ur a sick mofo.  true story™©®

      • Applesucksfatties

        He already has an iCactus up his ass…Steve Jobs told him to put it there so he listened like all good little iSheep do and jammed that iCactus right in his rectum. 

    • http://twitter.com/IamGregSmith Greg Smith

      Sliders get annoying, especially if you’re a power user or even intermediate. I don’t know how many times, I see people with a BB Torch and in the span of a couple minutes they slide the thing open like 10 times just to type, so dumb. Having the keyboard exposed at all times means direct and to the point at all times…

      • sirpaul

        I use screen for short texts, but when im having a convo or chatting on skype or something of the like, I want a keyboard. I would like choice between software and hardware keyboard, based on the situation.

  • Anonymous

    This phone or ANY blackberry phone wont launch till late 2011. The carriers still have a ton of left over 9800′s curves and bolds. No one wants to type on a physical keyboard. RIM will be dead in two years.  true story™©®

    • Applesucksfatties

      Did Apple finally load the cut and paste function on their iDevices because all of your RIM/BlackBerry comments are all copy and paste jobs from post to post. 

      • Anonymous

        hahahahaha classic!

      • http://twitter.com/fredacampos fredacampos

        Are you still mad at Apple cause Steve Jobs slept with your mom a few hundred times?

      • Applesucksfatties

        Fred… SHADDDUP!!  My mom was under the Stevie Job trance like all of you iSheep are…   She slept with him a few hundred times and Scroat/Max/Fred has gotten in line to give him the reach around a few hundred times… no difference!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/deandre.n.ruffin DeAndre

    Gross.  I’ll never purchase another BlackBerry as long as I’m a T-Mobile customer.

    • Anonymous

      K. Run along then.

  • My_lady_butler

    im excited for the 9900. Looks like a sweet phone.

    • Bolson20

      The 9900 is very nice but poor Battery life.  I can go 2 or 3 days with my 9780 and can only get 1 day on my 9900.  The touch screen is super clear.

      • Anonymous

        What software build are you running? I’m sure it’ll get better by release. They usually do.

      • Bolson20

        Build 848

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BT6GGJIG22RMSBO4YPGMSUPJBQ Lidia Allen

    I just paid $22.87 for an iPad 2 (64 GB) and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $674 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, CentHub.com

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    [Black Berry] Pearl 3G 9105: $350

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    [P l a y s t a t I o n] 3 PS3 Metal Gear Solid 4 80GB Bund: $220

  • Anonymous

    The whole time I was reading the article I was just waiting for that BGR-Engadget co-patented BlackBerry snide comment and sure enough…

    Does Boy Genius himself require that from all his writers now?

  • Applesucksfatties

    cmon Max, where are you?  I’m waiting for more of your enlightening RIM comments. If it makes you feel any better, I’m sorry that your one and only girlfriend/boyfriend used a BlackBerry to cheat on you.  You’ll find a new girlfriend/boyfriend soon….as soon as you move out of your mom’s basement…I promise. 

  • http://twitter.com/SeanKelleher Sean Kelleher

    I think a lot of people are going to buy this BlackBerry. And I think a whole lot more would have bought it if the $299.99 price tag didn’t scare them off. I like RIM, but God, what a dumbass move. One way to keep customers (and hopefully gain new ones) is definitely NOT charging $299.99 on contract, after $50 mail-in rebate. They should be begging people to buy their phones at this point. 

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