Is Rogers getting the BlackBerry Storm?
Posted under BlackBerry, Canada, Rogers, Rumors, Storm 9500 Series
Tags: 9500, BlackBerry, Rogers, Storm
Yesterday BBCool broke news about Rogers possibly getting the BlackBerry Storm 9500 before Christmas. When they called into Rogers Customer Service the rep claims that they will be receiving a touch screen BlackBerry for the Christmas season. Usually Rogers CSR’s are contracted out and don’t have a clue whats going on. So we highly doubt that Rogers will be getting a BlackBerry Storm this year and the folks over at BGR have pointed out why…
Unless RIM designs another BlackBerry Storm for North American markets with HSDPA 850/1900MHz then it wouldn’t make any sense for Rogers to release this device. The Storm which Vodafone will be launching the UK features Quad-Band: 850/900/1800/1900MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks meaning that on Rogers network they wouldn’t be able to use 3G only EDGE.
So who knows maybe just maybe we will see a Storm come to Rogers but for now we doubt it. Stay tuned in case more information comes in.
Thanks to BBCool and Boy Genius Report for the news.
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I may be wrong but by the looks of RIM’s site specs on the Storm the North American model has HSDPA 850/1900MHz. See Below:
http://www.blackberry.com/blackberrystorm/specifications.shtml
UMTS/HSPA: 2100 MHz
North America: 850 MHz GSMŪ/GPRS networks
North America: 1900MHz GSM/GPRS networks
Europe/Asia Pacific: 1800MHz GSM/GPRS networks
Europe/Asia Pacific: 900MHz GSM/GPRS networks
Dual-Band: 800/1900 MHz CDMA/Ev-DO networks