Telus roadmap reveals release dates for BlackBerry Bold 9900, Torch 2, SE Urishi, more

By on Aug 2, 2011 at 12:00 PM
Exclusive August 2, 2011

In addition to the possible Apple iPhone 5 launch date, our source at Telus has shared an internal document that reveals a slew of release dates for some of the most hotly-anticipated handsets on this side of the equator. The BlackBerry Bold 9900 — what’s sure to be RIM’s finest Blackberry ever — should be available for purchase starting around August 15th in North America. Holding out for the upgraded BlackBerry Torch 2? The follow-up to the original model should be available around August 15th as well, in Canada at least. The BlackBerry Torch 9860 (full touchscreen version) is slated to touch down on or around August 22nd with the BlackBerry Curve Apollo bringing up the rear on August 29th. Hit the break for more.

The BlackBerry Orlando, the touchscreen low-cost Curve, is currently set to be released on October 1st, and the BlackBerry Bellagio, a touch and type version based on the BlackBerry 9700 is also set to debut on that date alongside the iPhone 5, as we already noted. Lastly, it’s not over for October 1st as the unannounced Sony Ericsson Urishi ST18a, a thin Gingerbread Android handset, is slated to also launch on the first day of October in Canada as well. Finally, the entry-level Samsung Cooper (Galaxy Ace) should launch on October 15th. We expect most the aforementioned handsets to be released in the U.S. very soon after the Canadian release dates, or possibly even before in some cases. All the juicy details can be seen in our image gallery above.

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  • Anonymous

    Simply put.  RIM has too many effing BB’s out there.  They need to streamline their products.

    That and oh ya, RIM sucks.

    • Anonymous

      Different form factors is a good thing… it’s called choice!

      How many touchscreen slabs do we need out there?  Getting pretty redundant at this point.

      • Anonymous

        You just contradicted yourself.

        Its exactly that however, the BB models are very redundant.

      • Anonymous

        How am I contradicting myself?  I’m not sure I understand.
        Every android phone on this planet looks exactly like one another, and they all resemble the Iphone.
        Blackberries look different from anything else, which is why I like them.  Plus, you get different form factors as well depending on what you’re into.

      • Applesucksfatties

        all you crApple fanboy comments are REDUNDANT!!!

      • Scroat

        Your an idiot douche

      • Scroat

        Idiot?Check.Douche?Check.Cunt?Check. Being an little cunty douche idiot on BGR? Priceless.

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

        Michaelangelo never understood techonology. Where’s Donatello to explain to him using pizzas?

      • Anonymous

        Hmm since the BB slabs are incoming shortly and android has plenty of qwerty phones, I’m thinking this only is in reference to an iPhone. Redundant would be comparing BB to Apple.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Z6SWMSRC7J3TZWOLN3HEGNXEBE Anonymous

      Totally agree! Like, when I go to buy a car, I wish there was only one Honda, and one Toyota, and one Ford. Choice sucks!

      • TooMuchNoise

         I think that there is a large portion of the population that are insecure about the phone that they choose. They want a phone that would make them feel assured that the phone that they chose is accepted and agreeable by many people. Having too many options scares them.

      • Applesucksfatties

        Amen!!  But don’t let the iSheep hear you say that…..

    • Anonymous

      It’s either this type of comment or “Why do all Blackberries look the same?!”. 

      • TooMuchNoise

         The haters of BlackBerry suffers from bipolar-disorder.

      • QNX

        Yes this is true. BlackBerry Haters like Max suffer from bipolar-disorder.  If you disagree, you are wrong.

    • Jamma2

      Wow i wonder how many android phones Samsung has…???

    • Anonymous

      We know having a good quality product that is well supported and updated is not a good business strategy. I like BB approach of throwing out useless ugly phones that have interfaces from the 1980s.  Best that BB stay away from Apple’s business model of making one good phone at a time lest they actually make a profit. 

    • Anonymous

      I just paid $23.87 for an iPod 2-64GB 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 $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, http://to.ly/aRzu

  • Anonymous

    Holy Crap, its not an apple story! Though they were still able to lead the story with the iPhone 5 before anything else…..

  • Anonymous

    agree; they do seem to be overstretched a bit and in my experience build quality has suffered

  • http://twitter.com/zeduffman Luke

    It’s fine having a range of form factors to suit different people’s tastes, but I think they’re killing it by launching two Bolds and two Torches (one of which is actually a Storm…). I’ve gone off them at least, will be looking at Mango WP7 devices in the run up to Christmas.

  • Anonymous

    “BlackBerry Bold 9900 — what’s sure to be RIM’s finest Blackberry ever”  nice band aid for the broken leg you’ve inflicted BGR

    • Jfnf

      As a BlackBerry owner, BlackBerries suck. I’ve tested the 9900 before, and while it’s pretty sweet for a BlackBerry, it’s still garbage compared to the upcoming iPhone and Android handsets. The only redemptive quality is a physical keyboard, if you don’t include the faint hope that QNX will one day grace BlackBerries.

      And not that I’m defending BGR, but they shouldn’t be accountable for the self-inflicted headshot wound by RIM.

      • Anonymous

        BGR is responsible for the broken leg…..RIM is responsible for the heart failure and clogged arteries…..companies don’t die from broken legs

      • Applesucksfatties

        I always hear this comment from the crApple and Fanroid faithful, yet nobody can give me any CONCRETE FACTS on how an iPhone or Android handset is THAT much better than a BlackBerry.  Sure, you may PREFER one over the other, but I don’t see the iPhone being so technologically advanced that it can flip pancakes while analyzing financial statements for you.    However, I do know that it can rock a mean phone condom while playing a pretty cool fart app…

  • Anonymous

    I think the new Bold is going to surprise a lot of naysayers out there.  I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the new Bold will be the 2nd best selling phone on earth behind the Iphone.

    • Tyler

      Is it just me, or are these so called “official” roadmaps NEVER accurate!? And BGR and others continue to post them as if they are.

      • Anonymous

        They are NEVER accurate.  You can only use these roadmaps as a rough guideline.

      • Tyler

        Too bad all of the tech sites didn’t get the memo

  • RIMTastic

    b0lDbUrRy rap in 3……..2………1…………

    • Anonymous

      hahahahahahaha

  • Tyler

    Is it just me, or are these so called “official” roadmaps NEVER accurate. And BGR and others continue to post them as if they are!

    • BotBoldBuRy

      Look through some historical posts before you comment. While things often do change ahead of carrier announcements, leaked roadmaps are often extremely accurate.

  • Dumb and Dumber

    at this point who gives a fuck

    • Anonymous

      Then why did you make a comment?  If you don’t care, then it’s time for you to move along.

  • http://twitter.com/wahoooob wahoooob

    What does “coming soon” indicate? Is that internal communication only?

    • Tyler

      It means “Anytime within a year or two”

  • Max

    Who gives a shit?

    • Applesucksfatties

      Maxi!!!!!  You give a shit because you are always so busy ranting about RIM/BlackBerry/PlayBook.   Did a former girlfriend that cheated on you have a BlackBerry or work at RIM?  Did all of the cool kids get BlackBerrys from their rich parents and you were stuck with a Campbells soup can and string? 

      • Tony

        awwwwwww, you think he may have actually had a girlfriend.  You just made his day…….that’s adorable.

      • Yoyoma

        LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Anonymous

      Maxi, I know deep down inside you are a closet RIM fanboy.

    • Maxsuckshard

      Kids at school: “Max you suck so hard!”
      Max: “How hard?”
      Kids at school:”fuck you max, dont talk to us!”

  • Rudy

    I hate having choice, I need someone to make decisions for me, Steve Jobs is the man.  I think in Russia they called it Communism.

    Welcome to the free world, shop Blackberry.

  • Skullzloyd

    In other news BlackBerries suck

    • Applesucksfatties

      Further research reveals that you are a dipshit!

  • I need a bb

    I have a Samsung galaxy s2. It’s nice but a little bit 2 busy. 2 much bullshit on. I need some real shit. I need a phone I can be with. I need a phone I can chill with, a phone that’s last with me long, not just this shity battery android slut that’s leaves me morea then once

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NVLZLS5JKOKZ6AYQJXAGCCDAMQ Melvin Bowman

    I just paid $22.87 for an iPad2 (64GB) 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

  • Vincent Beaucher

    Not many Windows Phone in that list…

  • Roflmao

    If this thing is true, then Canada should be getting Telus ads for “BB Apollo” since it’s filed under the “coming soon” date of Jul 30th.

    Can any Canadians confirm these pictures?

  • 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

    • http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/ BoyRetardedReport

      oh sweet!

  • max63094

    what is happening with telus, where are the high end android devices. What, are they leaving Android to all the other companies, look at bell with the HTC sensation or the Galaxy S2, then Rogers releasing 3 high end android devices. WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON? and iPhone SUCKS

  • Jimmy K

    yeahhh… so telus’ RIM rep knows these phones are coming and the approx date, like q3, and the general order of release based upon when the phones are scheduled to be provided for the technical acceptance process at Telus. He goes ahead and tells Mikey the database monkey to put it into the database. Mikey makes up random dates because he can’t leave it blank. Stevo the customer service rep in some random store in the middle of nowhere takes screenshots of this data, sends it to BGR, who publishes this bs as a world exclusive. Seriously FAIL. 
    want to know when the devices will be released? when the ta process is done. Since it’s not done, picking an exact specific date and not a wide range is just rubbish, but i expect no better from bgr. THIS is the problem with getting all of ones information from these blogs that are as often right as they are completely and totally wrong due to poor research and the desire to get a scoop out weighing a desire to publish accurate information.

  • Leckets

    I effin hate the iphone, too overrated and almost everyone and their grandparents have one. 

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