I haven't been able to confirm the specifics, but there's been a lot of chatter in recent days about a BlackBerry 8700. That may be it on the right.The talk started on Thursday when athreya, a member of BlackBerryForums.com, and the person who first revealed plans for the BlackBerry 7290 to the Forum, posted to the group that his (unnamed) organization had been testing the 8700. That's the same BlackBerry that according to scuttlebutt, has been code-named Electron.
According to athreya, the new unit will be available sometime in the next couple of months, and will be compatible with Verizon, Cingular and SprintNextel networks.
He says the 8700 will be broadband-capable, with EVDO for Verizon, BB for SprintNextel, and EDGE for Cingular.
If athreya is right, the BlackBerry 8700 will also have:
- Built-In GPS
- Built-In IM
- 64 MB RAM
- Native-attachment viewing (rather than the requirement for third-party solutions).
The device, however, will not be Wi-Fi or VoIP compatible - and no camera either.
Sounds like a lot of features, but at least one BlackBerry user wants more.
"Forget the Electron!" crosstech100 writes only partly tongue in cheek. When is there going to Blackberry with a 20GB HD,
bluetooth 2.0, GPS, Swiss Army Knife, MP3 player, Broadband, and WIFI?
1. I have an 8700 in my hands now---It is from Cingular. THere is a speaker phone - can't find any gps. Cannot find the EVDO. Does have a improved web browser. Very similar in features to a 7100
Posted at 1:21PM on Dec 3rd 2005 by Lana Tolman