BlackBerry OS 6 in Carrier Testing for the Bold 9700
BlackBerry Bold 9700 owners can rejoice! The Bold 9700 may not have seen BlackBerry OS 6 yet, but it is in carrier testing by T-Mobile. An unnamed source tipped has tipped off GizmoFusion that T-Mobile has already failed three versions of BlackBerry OS 6 but is testing the fourth and newest version available to them. It is a little scary that three versions of BB OS 6 have already missed the bar, but hey, maybe the fourth time is the charm.
T-Mobile will be selling the Bold 9780 in the near future, so what will see the light of day first? Anyone think T-Mobile will delay OS 6 for the 9700 until after the 9780 hits its shelves? That might spur sales but I am sure the 9700 owners out there will be furious.
The good news in all of this is that RIM is promising to show us OS 6 running on a Bold 9700 and a Pearl 3G 9100 at its BlackBerry DevCon 2010 later this month. Oh, and OS 6 has been leaked for the Bold 9650. However, the 9650 has twice the RAM (512 MB) of the 9700 (256MB). Frustrated by the lack of clear news about OS 6 and older devices? I am.
Keep the fingers crossed. If OS 6 gets canceled for the 9700, I’ll be joining you 9700 owners in the ensuing riot. Correct me if I am wrong, but so far, I have only seen leaked pictures and OS 6 builds for BlackBerrys with 512MB of RAM. You know, the CDMA version of the Curve 3G (9330 model), the Bold 9650, etc.
Let me know if and when you think T-Mobile will be sending out OS 6 for the 9700. It already feels like we’ve been waiting a year for this.
Tags: BlackBerry Bold 9700, rumor, RIM, Blackberry OS 6, T-Mobile
I just watched this boygeniusreport.com/2010/08/20/blackberry-os-6-for-blackberry-bold-9700-video-walkthrough/
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Maybe T-Mobile will release this update in December 2010 after it completes it unit and system level testing.
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I am really tired of T-MO. They did the same BS with the release of Win Mo 6.5. As I see it we have 2 choices for looking at this issue; either they are complete technical morons (I know a little about OS testing for computers and it cannot be too far of diff for the phones) OR they are marketing pirates out to, once again, screw their here-to-for loyal customers. I am inclined to think that their rejections of previous versions of OS 6 are just delay tactics for their new phone release. VERY ANNOYING!!!! WAKE-THE-F’UP T-MOBILE. Given your business practices I bet we see T-MO get absorbed within a year by either AT&T or Verison. I have been with T-Mo for 8 years and I am starting to think it was 7 years too long.
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WTF? If tmobile cancels the is os 6 for 9700 there is no one who will stop me from going to someone else! They have been pissing me off for 4 years now with there constant price changes and this will be the last straw!!
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