Boy Genius Report has revealed part of the Sprint April launch roadmap featuring dates for many eagerly anticipated devices. All phones are expected to launch through TeleSales on April 16th and April 20th through the rest of Sprint’s sales channels.
The first device expected to be launched in April will be the recently announced Sierra Wireless 597U EVDO Rev. A USB modem with an internal microSDHC slot, and one touch configuration with compatibility for Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems.
The first phone expected will be the Sanyo Katana LX. The Katana LX will feature an identical featureset to the now discontinued Katana II with a VGA camera and Bluetooth, but will feature a sleeker, redesigned body.
The second and third phones are expected to be the first QChat enabled devices available on Sprint with the Sanyo PRO-200 and PRO-700. The PRO-200 will feature Bluetooth and EVDO Rev. A access, with the PRO-700 adding a rugged bodyshell with M810F certification for dust, shock and vibration.
The last listing on the slide is for the BlackBerry Curve 8330, which will first launch in a Titanium color, then expand to other possible colors. The smart device features a 2 megapixel camera, GPS support, microSD slot, and Bluetooth.
As always, the given dates are subject to change without notice.
M800?
I’m with Chris R. wheres the Samsung M800?!?!?!?
More than likely probably won’t be released until June/July timeframe
The article says this slide is “part” of the April launch, not all of it.
chris,
i thought a month or so ago when you broke the news on the BB curve you said it would include all the features of its gsm counterpart, i.e. wifi, but also would include GPS. obviously that slide doesn’t mention it. is it no longer going to have wifi? i was really hoping and counting on this feature. i am looking forward to hearing if any of the cdma bb’s will have wifi at this years CTIA and i look forward to your outstanding coverage and pics from the event, but i will be torn and sadly disappointed if the only wifi bbs are on gsm
Trading Wi-Fi for EV-DO data is standard for RIM. They consider both to have broadband data, and thus there isn’t a need for Wi-Fi on a CDMA BlackBerry.
To get to the root of your question though, the main reason is that the BlackBerry operating system does not handle high speed data properly. Anything more than EV-DO speed bottlenecks on the software.
Really, your question should be when RIM will refine their operating system to the point that it can benefit from faster-than-3G speeds. This is a big reason why RIM hasn’t released an HSDPA BlackBerry, since RIM doesn’t handle 3G well, let alone is ready for Wi-Fi.
Oh look, no mention of the Treo 800W. Again.
How about the BlackBerry 9000 featuring both WiFi and HSDPA?
This is all of the slide
[…] will initially launch with the Sanyo PRO 200 and PRO-700 clamshells from Sanyo which we have detailed previously, and will feature new services exclusive to QChat powered DirectConnect phones going forward such […]