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Mike Temporale
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:00 am    Post subject: What's Happened to the Windows Mobile BlackBerry-Killers? Reply with quote

http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=2954

"Okay, the Samsung SGH-i320 Windows Mobile Smartphone BlackBerry "killer" appeared first at last month's 3GSM Congress in Barcelona and was shown there with two working samples the first day. However, the second day, it disappeared from the Samsung stand and where the i320 was showed the day before, Samsung placed two other Windows Mobile devices. Everybody who was asked what happened with the i320 hadn't had anything to say, even if it was officially announced through Samsung's press release. All I got was that I should wait for the CeBIT. Okay, I tried hard to be patient and awaited the CeBIT but on the first day, as well as on the second day (than I gave) up, there was no information available on the Samsung stand."

What's the deal with all the Windows Mobile BlackBerry killer devices? Why is it that they keep disappearing? What could possibly be the problem? The Q has slipped past it's Q4 2005, and Q1 2006 shipping dates. Now the hot new Samsung i320 has vanished. Confused
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wish somebody would do something because I can't stand the sight of those primitive Blackberrys anymore! Interesting though now that RIM's legal troubles are over all the "Killers" are vanishing.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jerry Raia wrote:
I wish somebody would do something because I can't stand the sight of those primitive Blackberrys anymore! Interesting though now that RIM's legal troubles are over all the "Killers" are vanishing.


I had a Blackberry in 2000. I was through with it in 2002. I am so over it. I'd love for there to be something new. WM device manufacturers were my hope but it sems that they pulled away from taking them on. How sad is that?

So no one is even going to challenge because BB did't die on it's own.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a blackberry 7100t and it was OK. I now have the new Tmobile SDA and I love it. It kills and buries my 7100t. If and when the HP 6915 ever becomes a reality, That will be the blackberry killer for me.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

crispeto wrote:
If and when the HP 6915 ever becomes a reality, That will be the blackberry killer for me.


Don't be too quick to jump on that one, the 6515 which I had for a while, was just OK. The longer I had it, the less I liked it.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

what about the treo 700W? only problem with it is only one carrier has it right now.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ed Hansberry wrote:
what about the treo 700W? only problem with it is only one carrier has it right now.


I agree. I love my 2125, and reading my e-mail is all I really need to do. But if I were tempted for the need to respond, the 700w looks like the tool to use......except for that serious flaw of being tied to Verizon.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well I would suggest the 8125 on ANOTHER forum. Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ed Hansberry wrote:
what about the treo 700W? only problem with it is only one carrier has it right now.


No MSFP - yet, and I wouldn't really classify the Treo line as a BlackBerry competition. They're more of a PDA centric device and not a Email centric device.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mike Temporale wrote:
Ed Hansberry wrote:
what about the treo 700W? only problem with it is only one carrier has it right now.


No MSFP - yet, and I wouldn't really classify the Treo line as a BlackBerry competition. They're more of a PDA centric device and not a Email centric device.


By the time Verizon gets around to issuing that ROM upgrade, if there is one, I'll be in my diapers again.
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