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RIM's New Blackberry Ditches Thumboard
Eric Giguere writes "Research In Motion's newest BlackBerry, the 7100t, aka 'Charm,' has a more conventional phone form factor. It does this by ditching the thumb keyboard for an extended keypad with predictive text input. It also adds Bluetooth. The changes are mostly physical, the device is still running the same basic software -- existing Java apps should run with only minor changes. More details at the BlackBerry.com website." xRelisH supplies this link to a review of the device from MSNBC.
*cough cough* To 'b' or not to 'b,' there is no question.
"I make people like me... WITH VIOLENCE!" - ATHF
Sure. And at $13,000 I'd buy a BMW M3 in a second. But that's not what they cost.
Am I the only one who's sick of the "I'd buy it if it were half the price / a quarter of the price / a penny per megabyte" posts? God, shit's not cheap, man -- development, design and promotion cost money, and this attitude of not-paying-a-lot-for-that-muffler is why so many companies outsource all their development and manufacturing overseas.
Get it through your thick skulls, people. Shit isn't cheap to design or to produce. It shouldn't be cheap to buy. You do not need every new gadget that comes out. This attitude is only resulting in shoddy merchandise and people like me being unable to pay $300 for a sturdy, American made cell phone with a sensitive antenna and no useless features like email or cameras or ringtones that sound like Kiss songs. If people would stop griping about price and start saving up for what they really want, we'd all have better tech and maybe even better jobs.
Hey freaks: now you're ju