informationweek.com - 8/27/2008
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Topics: Mobile Report: BlackBerry Bold Being Delayed For 3G Reception Issues, Too Posted by Eric Zeman , Aug 20, 2008 05:22 PM A Citigroup analyst who has used the BlackBerry Bold smartphone reports that the forthcoming device from Research In Motion is suffering the same 3G reception woes that the 3G iPhone is. According to Electronista , Citigroup investment analyst Jim Suva issued a ...
blog.wired.com - 8/25/2008
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blog.wired.com —
Wired.com's survey of iPhone 3G users' suggests that
widespread data speed problems have more to do with...
carriers' networks than with Apple's handsets. Recently Wired.com asked iPhone 3G users all around the world to participate in a study, ...
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Wired.com's iPhone 3G Survey Reveals Network Weaknesses
gizmodo.com - 8/28/2008
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gizmodo.com —
If you were feverishly anticipating a cellphone this
year, it was one of two phones: the iPhone...
3G or this phone . The BlackBerry Bold is RIM's most powerful, polished handset ever. With 3G, a glossy new UI, a real web browser, serious hardware and ...
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BlackBerry Bold Review [Blackberry Bold Review]
crackberry.com - 8/23/2008
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crackberry.com —
Rogers and RIM sure never made it easy
for BlackBerry loyalists and fans to track down the...
Rogers BlackBerry Bold 9000 in its first few days of availability. After a frustrating Thursday launch I was lucky to find success on ...
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Rogers BlackBerry Bold 9000 Video Unboxing
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BlackBerry Bold experiencing 3G network woes with AT&T
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... we can expect things to get better.
The BlackBerry Bold was confirmed for AT&T earlier this year, but has been delayed due to unspecified circumstances. Could AT&T be waiting to patch the BlackBerry Bold’s firmware and possibly increase their 3G network coverage before releasing the Bold in to the wild? It certainly is a possibility. It would be a shame to see two headliner devices launched on AT&T with the same set of 3G service issues.
[Via: InformationWeek]
--- Related Articles at IntoMobile: AT&T gets BlackBerry ...
BlackBerry Bold suffers same issues as iPhone 3G with AT&T
Phones Review —
... main point being, the BlackBerry Bold uses a different 3G radio to that of the Apple iPhone 3G to connect to AT&T’s 3G network, and thus rules out any hardware problems, which in tune substantiates claims from Swedish researcher that the Apple iPhone antenna is working fine.
So it can be presumed that the network is to blame for loss of 3G connectivity; a carrier problem rather than a manufacturer, so maybe AT&T should be sorting it out.
Source – informationweek via intomobile
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