BlackBerry 8300 launching on at&t within weeks?
File this one under unconfirmed, and unsubstantiated rumors, but a reader of ours has sent us a tip saying that the BlackBerry 8300 will be launching on at&t in the coming weeks. "3-4 weeks" to be exact. I’m working on confirming this info at this very moment but is it too farfetched to think that we could see the 8300 launch before the rumored May/June timeframe? It’s been a very long while since RIM’s consumer-centric device, the BlackBerry Pearl, launched on T-Mobile. Now that the BlackBerry 8800 is out and about this is obviously the next device down the pipeline. With the cell phone market growing faster every day, and fad phones launching every other week, it just may be that RIM has to have a go yet once again in the consumer sector. Let’s just hope it’s sooner than later. For our sake, and for their sake. One reason to doubt this is that the BlackBerry 8800/8820 hasn’t even launched on T-Mobile…Time will tell!
Thanks, coldcc!
UPDATE: It does look like April is the whispered launch month, but things could change so don’t sell your BlackBerry 8800 just yet. at&t is going to position it as a media device (obviously) to join the Pearl. Price point should be around $250 with activations.
Jonathan S. Geller
Jonathan Geller is the founder of Boy Genius Report, now known as BGR. What began as a column on popular gadget blog Engadget quickly grew into one of the site’s biggest draws, and Jonathan soon detached the wildly popular column to create what has since become the biggest mobile news destination in the world.
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