T-Mobile BlackBerry Bolds and Curves having problems in Netherlands
By Will Park on Thursday, January 29th, 2009 at 12:05 PM PST In Announcements, BlackBerry, Devices, Hottest Hardware, RIM (Research in Motion), T-Mobile
Storm owners have reason to celebrate – seeing as how misery loves company. BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Storm owners have been dealing with half-baked firmwares that have kept their Storm from reaching its full potential. Since launch, the BlackBerry Storm has been the criticized for its buggy nature, forcing Storm owners to bear the device’s downfalls. The good news here is that Storm owners aren’t the only BlackBerry customers with buggy firmware! It seems European BlackBerry fans with a BlackBerry Curve or BlackBerry Bold in their pocket have reason to complain, too!
T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) has halted sales of all BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Curve smartphones due to a specific bug that hits customers with overage charges. T-Mobile first noticed the problem on their BlackBerry Curve, and immediately pulled the Curve from retail channels.
[Update]
T-Mobile dropped us an email to let us know that the issue was not with software or firmware, but rather a bug in the carrier’s service plan configuration in the Netherlands.
[Via: PhonesReview]
FALSE – this is a lame rumor. I spoke with T-Mobile and they said this is bogus. They apparently had a minor
problem in Holland for one day where their billing system was buggered and they couldn’t sell Blackberrys, but it
was limited to Holland and it was a T-Mobile systems issue, NOT buggy device software or anything to do with Blackberry.
Intomobile should be better than this. You’re hurting your own industry by spreading incorrect information
like this.