BBHub reader PASB writes me this morning.
"I went to my Cingular Retail Store yesterday...11/20...they have the pricing sheet but no phone yet," he tells me, adding that the price he saw was $399.99 with no service commitment. In other words, just for the phone.
And then another reader had some more interesting news. He actually saw the Cingular Pearl on a poster in a Cingular retail store window.
"I asked a sales associate in my area on Thursday, and he said it should be coming out within the next two weeks," writes BBHub reader tai. The store actually had a picture of it in its poster of 3 smartphones (although another
store i went to only had the old poster without the Pearl). "
We'll know in a little while if Cingular and BlackBerry wil lannounce the Cingy Pearl today. But as I have written, Cingular's distribution channels are so fuzzed up that an announcement doesn't ensure availability.
1. I was in a Cingular store on 86th St. in Manhattan last night and saw the same poster with the Pearl on it. The guy in the store said sometime between Tuesday and Friday. I asked if they had Pearls in the store and he said he had no idea (I could sense he really did not have any idea).
Posted at 8:38AM on Nov 21st 2006 by Doug Desenberg