What is the indentation on the left side of the 8800 below the convenience key? It looks like a gold colored contact shaped in an oval with a separator down the middle.

What is this thing for? Anyone know.

I read on here somewhere that it was for charging in a cradle. To be released in the future, I guess.

That will communicate with the RFID chip that will be implanted into your body.

Do Not Touch These Two Contacts To Your Tongue!

I Warned You, Do Not Do It!

ya dust had ta tempt me didnt ya? now i tawk ike diss. i cant tase thoods but i can theel my tastbuds. uuuugh.

You connect those gold contacts to your car's ignition. Then the BB will drive your car to your chosen GPS location. It's called push-navigation.

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On the side...u would think they would of put it on the bottom!

Liar...did not try while charging though...OUCH Mother @%*ker

ROFL?! Did you realy stick your tounge to them? Didnt do anything, but when its charging it does? HAHA This is funny, Im gona have to try it sometime when im drunk enough to get the piss shocked outa me.

There are still guppies in the world

All this time I thought it was related to the GPS receiver. Like a antenna or something.

If I could only change my post date to today's date...

They are spare grill covers...

ya know, for the hip-hop crowd.

Picture it, yer on stage, yer rappin' to the beat and one of your gold crowns gets beat-boxed right out your fool head into the crowd.

now ya can't go on without a gold grill cover, so you reach down and pull out the Blackberry 8800 and take out your spare golden grill cover.

yer set, the show is saved and you did it all with your BlackBerry!

Why? Charging contacts merely need to match with the cradle's contacts. The cradle doesn't have to have them on the bottom...

It is nice to have them on the bottom so the weight of the device can be used to maintain a constant contact. Obviously it isnt impossible to make a charging cradle with side contacts that holds the phone securely while charging but I think putting them on the bottom is a more elegant solution to the problem.

Just caught this reply.

That would be mullets..........

if it is for charging that will make in car cradles pretty good, they need to wrap around the side to hold the unit so a neat little place toput them

thats the one serious thing I miss with PDA phones, smartphones and blackberries.

Old Palm m500's had cradles that you dropped the unit into, it charged it and synchronised your data and lets face it. Looked real nice on the desk, not to mention you could search through your contacts with it in front of you like a rolodex

so why on earth couldnt they come up with that rather than a fold up leather holder