Latest BlackBerry OS confirms 8820 with WiFi

by Chris Ziegler posted Feb 21st 2007 at 1:02PM

A feature notoriously missing from RIM's range, WiFi is one add-on we can pretty much all agree would make the average BlackBerry user's life noticeably better. We'd heard rumblings ahead of the 8800's release that Canada's newest handset would sport some manner of 802.11 out of the box, but alas -- the release came and went with no 2.4GHz (or 5GHz, for that matter) goodness in sight, allegedly due to technical glitches on RIM's side that the company was unwilling to delay the initial model for. No worries, though -- well, maybe a few worries if you're AT&T and you're trying to push the 8800 out the door -- the WiFi-enabled 8820 looks pretty official now thanks to a cameo in RIM's latest BlackBerry OS offering. Other changes should be minimal from its predecessor; a camera still isn't in the cards, leaving shutterbugs who like their BlackBerry served QWERTY style up the same creek they are now. No word on a release, but rumblings have the device launching mid-year.

Filed under: Handsets, RIM, GSM, GPRS, EDGE

Tags: 802.11, 8820, blackberry, edge, gsm, research in motion, researchinmotion, rim, wifi

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john @ Feb 21st 2007 7:06PM

yes! this needs to come to T-Mobile asap

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Andrew Hillman, Andrew Hllman @ Feb 21st 2007 10:00PM

Wow Blackberry is coming to the party of high speed to bad they charge so much for push more people will be using palm push iphone push and WIndows Mobile free push the planet is changing blackberry are boring as well!

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Al Adame @ Mar 7th 2007 10:59AM

Is it possible to upgrade the BlackBerry 8800 to 3G?
Software/Firmware or Hardware? or Both or a total different unit? Any ideas?

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SBF @ Mar 8th 2007 8:39AM

Any word on when the Blackberry 8800 will come to Verizon?

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ken @ Jul 15th 2007 3:04PM

Hi There anyone has any prediction whether we will see a wifi blackberry by the end of august?

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