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Join Date: Apr 2005
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7100 for Verizon??? -
04-29-2005, 10:59 AM
Does anyone know if and when the 7100 series might be available for Verizon?
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Talking BlackBerry Encyclopedia
Posts: 474
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: State of Confusion
Model: 8300
Carrier: T-Mobile
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04-29-2005, 11:53 AM
I heard late summer. But we'll see, they are usually the last out the gate for every model Blackberry.
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BBF Moderator
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Somewhere In The Swamps of Jersey
Model: 8320
OS: 4.5
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04-29-2005, 12:06 PM
What year?
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Talking BlackBerry Encyclopedia
Posts: 382
Join Date: May 2005
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05-03-2005, 01:40 PM
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What year?
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Knowing Verizon, probably 2010.
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BlackBerry Extraordinaire
Posts: 1,649
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Dallas, Texas
Model: 7130e
PIN: FFFFFFFF
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05-03-2005, 04:53 PM
The differences between the 7100's are all cosmetic because they are all GSM phones. Verizon is CDMA which means the phones will have to be completely redesigned inside.
Stonent
Current: Sprint 7130e w/ Outlook Web Access
Prior: 7510, 7520, 7290, 7230 w/ BES
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Talking BlackBerry Encyclopedia
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05-03-2005, 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by stonent
The differences between the 7100's are all cosmetic because they are all GSM phones. Verizon is CDMA which means the phones will have to be completely redesigned inside.
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Word - but Sprint (also CDMA) doesn't seem to have problems releasing "new" phones (maybe not blackberry but they had camera phones about a year before Verizon).
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Knows Where the Search Button Is
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Join Date: May 2005
Model: 8830
Carrier: Verizon Wireless
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05-09-2005, 09:24 AM
Sprint and other carriers may be first to market, but the goal is to be BEST-in-market.
3rd or 4th quarter is the anticipated launch date for the Verizon 7150 BBerry model.
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BBF Moderator
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05-09-2005, 02:04 PM
Two years ago Sprint laid out their "no need for the BlackBerry" strategy for me. Thanks, but no thanks.
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Talking BlackBerry Encyclopedia
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05-11-2005, 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by spatton
Sprint and other carriers may be first to market, but the goal is to be BEST-in-market.
3rd or 4th quarter is the anticipated launch date for the Verizon 7150 BBerry model.
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7150 model? Is this real or bS?
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Join Date: May 2005
Model: 7100
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05-12-2005, 02:28 PM
I am also interested in the 7100 (or 7150, whatever) on Verizon, and just spoke to a RIM sales rep. He was very non-committal, but did say to keep checking Blackberry.com "during the summer". Guess we'll see. I hope it will have EVDO, I just decided against the Treo 650 on Verizon as their just released version doesn't support EVDO.
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Model: 8703e
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05-12-2005, 03:08 PM
True - VZW is usually behind in equipment introductions, but it is because of the rigorous testing the manufactures have to do to produce a quality enough product for the service. That way you dont have the t-mobile like effects of removing poor models like the sidekick.
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Thumbs Must Hurt
Posts: 54
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Model: 8700c
Carrier: Cingular
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05-12-2005, 05:26 PM
My engineering friends tell me that a big disadvantage of PDA's with phones in them (like Treo and BB) on CDMA is that you can't be using voice and data simultaneously. So, for example, if you are doing email, your phone calls will goto Voice Mail instead of your phone and conversely if are talking on the phone, your emails won't be delivered to you until you are done- nor will you get a notification. The former is much more irritating and worse than the latter.
This is not true with GSM.
I confirmed this with my friends at Good and another friend who has the Treo on Sprint: he can not talk and receive data at the same time. This will not be unique to Palm devices- it is a CDMA issue.
I'm attempting to find out more because I've been a die hard CMDA addict for ever but recently have begun using the 7100g on Cingular and like to be able to talk and do email/IM/apps at the same time.
Can anyone shed light on this- pretty sad for CDMA.
I would make the BB a lot less useful of a device if true (whcih so far it appears to be).
-Marc
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"Give me a #5 XB and I can fly you to the moon"
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05-18-2005, 12:36 AM
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Originally Posted by mok7100
My engineering friends tell me that a big disadvantage of PDA's with phones in them (like Treo and BB) on CDMA is that you can't be using voice and data simultaneously. So, for example, if you are doing email, your phone calls will goto Voice Mail instead of your phone and conversely if are talking on the phone, your emails won't be delivered to you until you are done- nor will you get a notification. The former is much more irritating and worse than the latter.
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-Marc
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I have read that with EV-DO CDMA will support either 1) cleanly switching between voice and data or 2) allowing both at once. In case 1, an email/other data dowload would be interrupted by a phone call and resume when you hang up. That's from internet chatter, not a technical article.
Does anyone have _firm_ information about this? CDMA carriers have great coverage inside the US but possibly losing important calls is a substantial disadvantage.
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Thumbs Must Hurt
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Columbus, OH
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05-19-2005, 01:00 AM
is the Iden(nextel) network the way so that you can't do voice and data at the same time? or can you check email and talk on the BB at the same time?
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Talking BlackBerry Encyclopedia
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05-20-2005, 04:25 PM
ON GSM/GPRS you cannot receive e-mails while you're on a call, but while you're doing e-mails - calls come in just fine. Is it not the same on CDMA BlackBerries?
Sergey Fradkov
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Pueblo, CO
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05-27-2005, 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by sergeyd
ON GSM/GPRS you cannot receive e-mails while you're on a call, but while you're doing e-mails - calls come in just fine. Is it not the same on CDMA BlackBerries?
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Not in my experience.
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Join Date: May 2005
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7100 Verizon -
05-31-2005, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by adamc
Does anyone know if and when the 7100 series might be available for Verizon?
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I have a contact at RIM who is reliable and talks to me on the QT. He said the 7150 will be released through the Verizon Business unit in June 05. He has always been accurate in the past. Let's see about this time.
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: NYC, USA
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06-02-2005, 11:19 PM
How will the 7150 look?
I hope it will be black like the 7100x from O2.
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Thumbs Must Hurt
Posts: 154
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: NYC
Model: 8830
Carrier: Verizon
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06-03-2005, 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted by BJNY
How will the 7150 look?
I hope it will be black like the 7100x from O2.
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Yeah thats a cool look. I guess so long as it doesnt look like the Rogers / TMO unit... yick!
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Formerly -8100 / 8700 / 7290 / 7100g / 7510 / 7230 / 6710 /. .
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Join Date: May 2005
Model: 7100g
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06-03-2005, 05:09 PM
Well it's June 05...And there aren't even picutes of these things yet on the net, you'd think that something got leaked by now. Are you sure the numbers are 7150?
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Model: 8700c
Carrier: Cingular
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06-05-2005, 08:12 PM
I asked my IT guy to nudge our Verizon sales rep for my (small) company, and she replied back to IT that no 71xx models are expected until 4th quarter at the earliest. Now, her job is to sell current models, and you could reason that her telling us that it would come out in June might make us hold off on phones until a 71xx model is released. But since we just ordered 20 more phones last month, I suspect she has no reason to lie.
She also refused to state if the model would be called 7150, nor what features or case colors it might have, even when we pushed and said we wouldn't hold her to anything she told us. She also just might not know, and its safer to "neither confirm nor deny" than to just say "I dunno".
Sucks, since I just spent a weekend borrowing a buddies 7100t and think its a great phone. We'll see what happens; personally, I'm hoping for June.
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06-06-2005, 02:55 PM
A Rim rep told me today the the "7130" is being released by late fall but no word on features yet.
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07-11-2005, 03:54 PM
I am keen on getting a Verizon 7100 model that has GSM capabilities. A rep in a NYC store told me that they are coming out with a model on Sept 15th that is GSM/through Vodafone...does this make any sense to anyone?
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Thumbs Must Hurt
Posts: 190
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Rhode Island
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Carrier: Verizon Wireless
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07-12-2005, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by MangoMan
I am keen on getting a Verizon 7100 model that has GSM capabilities. A rep in a NYC store told me that they are coming out with a model on Sept 15th that is GSM/through Vodafone...does this make any sense to anyone?
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If that were to happen, the GSM would be 900/1800 and would not work in the U.S.
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Thumbs Must Hurt
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07-12-2005, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by MangoMan
I am keen on getting a Verizon 7100 model that has GSM capabilities. A rep in a NYC store told me that they are coming out with a model on Sept 15th that is GSM/through Vodafone...does this make any sense to anyone?
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That doesn't make any sense as Verizon is a CDMA operator and does not have a GSM/GPRS network in the USA.
My Verizon rep told me that he has been told November and that the model # would be 7130. He also said that EVDO testing has started for the 7250 but didn't know how it was going.
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