Whoopty doo. I have found a great deal of useful information on this board when it comes to having problems and needing resolutions, but I am just about ready to quit reading this section. With all of the people and their pissing contests of who knows more and who has the best inside scoop, its starting to look like none of us knows a thing...... :S

we all heard of Christmas in July

This:
BlackBerry Bold Gets A Black Eye, Delayed Again - Mobile Blog - InformationWeek

which is rumor, too just like all the rest of this thread!

Is that like a "Cold day in Hell!"

Article from National post here.

hahaha, and there you have hit the nail on the head.

Opinions--anyone can have them, including opinions regarding release dates.

carmovies: Go to Google News and search for "rogers" and "blackberry". Here is the text of the National Post article:

BlackBerry Bold delay, another 3G iPhone
Posted: July 28, 2008, 8:06 AM by Jonathan Ratner

Technology

The BlackBerry Bold will likely be delayed by two weeks for carriers Rogers, T-Mobile and Vodafone as Research In Motion Ltd.’s engineers may be spending more time on the touch screen Thunder to push forward its release date.

This is the indication from Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek’s channel checks. However, he said the software build has likely been sent recently, which makes an earlier launch possible. But he doesn’t expect anything as early as Monday, July 28.

The analyst told clients that while this is a short-term negative, it is not very material for RIM and he still expects those three carriers to launch in August. That means the sales will contribute to RIM’s second quarter results.

Mr. Misek also noted that his sources suggest there will be a second 3G iPhone from Apple Inc. launched around November. He said it will have 32 gigabytes of storage and will come in additional colours.

Any weakness related to the Bold delay would be a buying opportunity in RIM shares, he added, reiterating a “buy” rating and US$225 price target.

No... you need to learn how to read properly. The article says that AT&T GUARANTEES that the bold will be out BEFORE November 1st. Please read the article thoroughly before you come in here and say it is delayed until November when it didn't say anything remotely close to that in the article.

The Sept. 1st date seems the most plausible to me because the testing started about two weeks ago for them meaning the testing should end early-mid August and be able to ship by the end of August with an updated OS build. The Bold has already passed FCC testing, so they just need to find bugs in the OS before shipping to consumers. AT&T has also started training on the Bold, so I doubt they would wait three months after they trained their employees to release it.

You also forget that these "journalists" are just glorified forum goers like us. In that article he used BlackBerryNews as a source. He has no legitimate info regarding the Bold. He is going off rumors just like we are. I take all of these "news sources" like CNet and others with not even a grain of salt. Most of the time we know more than they do.

Long story short, do not trust any of these articles or use them as sources, and if you do please interpret them correctly

-Burton

You are funny!

You tell me that I can't read and they you post what is most "plausible to you"?

I choose to believe the rumors I wish and you can believe in yours. If you wish to think that Sept. in a good date because of "att training" ok then.

First it was July, then August and now we are hoping for Sept. or Nov.

RIM might as well save it for Christmas!

I thought that it would be out by tomorrow? from blackberrynews.com

Welcome to the forums. Rogers date for Business customers (no units in stores) is Tomorrow. The fallback date is the 8th of August. This date is also general availability date.

@Sith_apprentice
thanks!
wow i guess i need to wait again then...

no units in store tomorrow, but can we order by calling rogers?

I like eggs...

Hey, If I have a Corporate account will I be able to call in tomorrow to do a corporate hardware upgrade?

i would imagine so

Just saw the bold in the Rogers store in Toronto. Funny thing is they didn't have the price plan or the price of the phone. He showed me a working version of it....me being the dumbone I forgot to photograph it.....I will try to go back tomorrow and get more information...it does remind me of the 8800 series but much much better.....

Which store?? At Bay & Adelaide - they are often the first store in TO to receive new Blackberry product.

Smells like a marketing fiasco for RIM and their top device.

First the device gets some initial bad reviews and now it's piling on the delays daily ...ouch.

People are getting so ancy and desperate that they are throwing out bogus information.

Are they back to the drawing board with it ?

Just spoke a Roger's Corporate rep thats trying to take our corporate account over to them as we are currently with Telus. He told me that he has a big Canada wide conference call on Friday at 2:00 p.m. CST. He is 99.9% sure that its to set a release date for the Bold.

To set a release date. Lol. Top Rogers management is going to have a conference call with all the reps to determine the release date. That's the funniest thing I've heard to date.

Whats so funny about it?

Cause I'm sure that management can make that decision on their own and most likely already have.

They will likely be informing them of the already-made decision.

Now that's possible.

And that might be that it is further delayed!

why can't they just figure it out and release this thing

So nothing mentioned on Rogers' website...

Stores have received their demo devices as of last week.

So they are telling you that they don't have a clue what to do or what's going on. Hilarious...

how long before the Maple location will have them, I am on a corporate account, I want mine now, but most likely we will have to wait until August 12, sorry guys.

I don't think so.

The Official Blackberry Store just changed their Bold Accessories date to August 7/08

Went to the launch in calgary July 15.. Been watching for a courier to show up ever since... one of these days my bold will show up.. waiting sucks.

talked to a couple of my reps, who told me tentative Aug 6 (that was last week), and this morning when i inquired it was Aug 11 tentative.

So i am hoping my box shows up today/tomorrow, but probably wont until second week of august. sigh.

Pretty confident that the reps will be given mandate to release the official release date once and for all on that conference call this Friday.

Let's hope... today is not looking so promising for the business customers.

But the day isn't over!

releases are ussually Tuesday's and Friday's and today is almost over.

went to my Rogers store i deal with...they said Aug 19 in stores...oh well

98% it will be on August 12, but I am still 2% that it can be later or earlier.

It's getting close

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