BlackBerry 8830, BlackBerry 8800, and BlackBerry 8820 Information
Anyone ever wanted to know the difference between the GSM/GPRS/EDGE BlackBerry 8800 (currently on AT&T, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Rogers and a number of other carriers) and the upcoming CDMA/EV-DO BlackBerry 8830 World Phone (soon to be found on Verizon, Sprint, Telus, and others)?
According to this leaked AT&T document obtained exclusively by BGR, the BlackBerry 8800 device has almost twice the processing speed and a substantial 35% advantage on talk time but lacks in data speeds (EDGE vs EV-DO). 312MHz vs. 225MHz, wow!
Granted, this is nothing more than propoganda promoting the Baby Bell BlackBerry North American Championship match, pitting Verizon versus AT&T – the champion versus the top contender – in the title bout, but the hard facts don’t lie.
Oh yeah, there is also a little blurb about some new device called the BlackBerry 8820, which includes Wi-Fi functionality, seeing a release date on AT&T in Q3 this year.
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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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