Simon from BBCool managed to get his hands on a Rogers BlackBerry Bold yesterday. He has posted some unboxing shots of the device. One thing I noticed right off the bat is that the BlackBerry Bold is shipping with RIM’s new in ear headphones that we saw a few months back.
Well everyone its August 21st! This means its BlackBerry Bold launch day for Rogers in Canada. We have heard rumors of more software delays but for now the Bold is available on Rogers.com and its showing as orderable. Pricing goes as follows: $399.99 with three year contract and “regular price” (is that no contract?) for $599.99.
Rogers Pearl 8220 gaming site
So Rogers has accidently listed the BlackBerry Pearl 8220 (aka Kickstart) on their gaming downloads page. This could mean one of two things either Rogers will be launching the Pearl 8220 within the week or two or that they simply made an error and listed it way too early. Our bet goes along with previous reports that you will see the Pearl 8220 instores for September 1st or so.
Click here to read more on the BlackBerry Kickstart also known as Pearl 8220
[via MobileSyrup]
That’s right folks! Rogers is officially launching their BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphone this Thursday August 21, 2008. Invites have been sent to the media to attend the Bold launch. Pricing isn’t confirmed anywhere but its expected to launch with a price of $399 with three year and $650 without contract. The Canadian Press is also reporting that the Bold will be launched this Thursday.
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Seems that Rogers’ BlackBerry Bold will remain at $399 with three year contract, however it seems the outright price (MSRP) is better than expected. The Bold will run you $649.99 with no contract, which for some people sounds a whole lot better if you don’t want to be stuck into one of those lovely ball and chain contracts.
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Interesting enough Rogers has the BlackBerry Bold in one of their new flyers. The price will be a little heavy at $399 with contract and nearly $1,000 without contract. Looks like some people might be waiting for BlackBerry Javelin or BlackBerry Thunder after all… Click on over to see the flyer!
[Via CrackBerry]
In just another sign that Rogers is getting close to their BlackBerry Bold launch, they have received a Bold launch kit containing a dummy phone and several brochures plus a rubber skin for it. Recent rumors have pointed to a August 19th launch with would make total sense now. Stay tuned!
New details have emerged of RIM’s new BlackBerry Kickstart (now known as Pearl 8220) launching on Rogers Wireless here in Canada. BBNews got the details of Rogers upcoming student plans and promotional pricing for the new flip Pearl 8220. Students will be able to pick it up for $50 with three year contract as long as you take the student plan (below).
Outright/No Contract: $599.99
3 year contract: $99.99
Student Promo Pricing: $49.99
Student Plan Details:
$45 / month
- 450 local Weekday Minutes
- Unlimited Evenings and Weekends starting at 6pm
- MY5 Canada-Wide (Unlimited talk, SMS, and MMS to any five numbers in Canada)
- Unlimited Local Incoming Minutes
- $5 off Value Pack for duration of contract
and a data plan starting at $15 (unlimited email and IM) plus a value pack with caller ID, voicemail and text (which start at $15 as well).
Remember the Rogers roadmap from a few months back? Well here is a new Q3, 2008 guide to all of the upcoming handsets. Within this quarter Rogers will be releasing the BlackBerry Bold 9000, Pearl (Formally Kickstart) 8220, and BlackBerry Curve 8320. No pricing is known for any of the new handsets but its expected the Bold will launch early August, Pearl 8220 Mid-September and Curve 8320 late September.
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Canadian’s are about to jump around with joy over this post! The latest rumor hitting the blogs is that Rogers is launching the highly anticipated BlackBerry Bold 9000 on August 19th. After a few delays this is amazing news for Rogers clients. Pricing hasn’t been confirmed as of yet but you can expect it won’t be too cheap. Another interesting tidbit about the Bold launch is that it won’t be supporting Rogers UMA (Talk Spot) at launch but it will come shortly after…
Also here is an internal document from Rogers comparing their three BlackBerry models:
[Via BlackBerryCool]
