Sprint offers BlackBerry Bold 9650

on 04/26/2010, filed in Home > CellPhones

We’ve just covered the official announcement of the BlackBerry Bold 9650 earlier this morning, and now we have news of Sprint offering it officially from May 23rd onwards. This will retail for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate alongside a customary 2-year contract. Apparently, it will hit the market via “all Sprint sale channels” – when will Verizon Wireless follow suit? [Press Release]

RIM: RIM is the acronym for Research In Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry brand. RIM was founded in the mid 90s by Mike Lazaridis and with Jim Balsillie and went IPO (Initial Public Offering) in 1998. Its claim to fame was to make mobile email really effective and enterprises quickly adopted its devices and associated software and services which were highly lucrative. With the rise of iOS and Android devices, the BlackBerry franchise bumped into trouble and its decline prompted RIM to take a radical step by overhauling its BlackBerry operating system (OS) completely with QNX. The first version of the QNX BlackBerry OS is BlackBerry 10 or BB10.

Sprint: Sprint is one of the major wireless carriers in the USA. It uses a mix of CDMA, WiMax and LTE Networks as the backbone of its infrastructure. The company's network is also used by third parties and mobile virtual operators like Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, and Assurance Wireless. Sprint has about 55M subscribers.

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