Verizon Iphone
Since we were the first ones to break the news about a touchscreen
BlackBerry device
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lowdown on it! This is going to excite a lot of people, but anger many.
Are you ready? The BlackBerry Thunder, as it is codenamed now, (all you
"reporting" on it as the Storm are incorrect) will launch in Q3 of this
year. It is a full touchscreen BlackBerry - no slide out keyboard - with
only 4 physical keys. Those are the send / end phone keys, the
BlackBerry menu key, and the back key. Here is the most interesting
part, though: it will launch as a worldwide lifetime exclusive on
Verizon and Vodafone! We've heard the unit will be a hybrid device with
CDMA EV-DO Rev. C (for clarification, Rev C., known as UMB is
practically dead. If the device will indeed launch with a 4G solution,
our bet is on LTE), and GSM HSPA for traveling internationally. Verizon
and Vodafone will have the same unit. Currently, the model number is the
BlackBerry 9500, though it's very early and that's likely to change.
This is HUGE for the Verizon lovers. For once they'll get an exclusive
device, but Verizon will have a sales quota for the device and if they
don't meet those numbers, we've heard the exclusivity will then dissolve
and it's over. This will be extremely interesting to see play out.
Thanks Boygenius!
