Another 71xx series is a snooze fest for me....I want a true full qwerty device will some bonus features.

boygenius - you don't happen to work for the NY Times do you? covering the foreign money transfer beat? :-o

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blackberry "stealth." Thats what boygenius was talkin about. its in engadgetmobile.com

I just misread that compleatly as one persons trash is another persons treo... hum wonder what my minds saying to me. lol

eh.. it's only got a Suretype keyboard. I'll pass.

Are you sure about the camera?

It is indeed a joystick thingie, as mentioned to me by a RIM employee.

That will be nice...
I guess we can give some rest to our thumb.

This coincides pretty well w/ the rumored Palm/RIM collaboration and/or merger...

Joysticks, cameras, MP3 players? Hmm...

nice picture...did you take that with your treo camera?

Hardly surprising it's suretype as it's likelyto be heavily marketed towards the consumer user as no doubt RIM don't want to hack off their big security conscious corporates. Not for me I'm afraid, I like my iPod Nano for my MP3's, my PSP as my media and games player, and my BlackBerry for my communications - and never the three shall meet!!!!

BBAdmin makes a good point- this likley will be more of a consumer oriented handset- we probably shouldn't be vieweing this as a total sell out by RIM though...my guess is that they will still continue to make business-centric handsets that will meet the needs of their core client base. They are simply trying to reach out to new markets.

Having said that, I think I'll be passing on this one as well- the music I listen to the most is done by old hippies who refuse to sell the rights to their stuff to the MP3 distributers. :smile:

Hmmm? I wonder though about people like myself that use the BlackBerry for business, even though I'm on BIS and not BES. My concern is that RIM will clump BIS users into this new 'market', complete with cameras, MP3 players, joy sticks and other useless add-ons, all of which I switched to BlackBerry to get away from.

Hopefully, RIM will simply concentrate on adding a voice recorder, and spending a little more time tweaking the PIM capabilities of the BlackBerry. Just my two cents.

It doesnt matter what they make really, because you dont have to buy it if you dont like it. There will always be a corprate focus on some models atleast for governments and alike.

i dont' understand how someone being able to buy a blackberry with an mp3 player and camera makes someone elses BB that doesn't have a camera or mp3 player any worse

i love it i want a blackberry stealth?

Thank god! The voices of reason, at last! All you naysayers please read the above, and then when you're done...read them again. :razz:

Edit: Kind of sad that it has an MP3 player, but no camera, if thats true. Can't the 7130 and 8700's play mp3's already? I mean no playlists I guess, but it can play them. Doesn't sound like any huge improvement to me.

Totally agree. Some people around here are just plain paranoid.

Oh, and a joystick? Yuck.

i just want an SD card slot. i do agree that the joystick is "Yuck"