RIM is reportedly preparing another BlackBerry for Nextel’s iDEN network. And while you may wonder why would they invest their resources in iDEN, the fact stays that for people looking for push-to-talk service – Nextel rules. In addition, Nextel’s service is still being used extensively by some industries, which RIM may want to target as well.
Apparently, the Canadian handset maker will make the WiFi-enabled BlackBerry Curve 8350 for Nextel by the end of the year, though it may slip to early 2009. And that’s about all we know at this stage.
I can understand RIM wants to expand its market share by targeting as larger audience as possible. However, I don’t quite dig RIM’s idea to unveil the Curve to iDEN network users at the end of this year. Not that Curve is not a great device, on the contrary it gained quite a following, but the idea to introduce the Curve at the end of the same year when Bold and Thunder are introduced is kinda weird. Then again, Nextel’s users don’t have much choice anyways.
[Via: Engadget Mobile]