Shiny new Blackberry picked fresh off the production line by Orange

Rating: Citrus tasting RIM to lure important businessfolk   

by Tony Alton

All this story needs is Apple to be involved and I would have had the perfect mobile fruit salad gag.  Alas, I will have to do with telling you that Orange have teamed up with Blackberry to launch the ‘world’s first’ (a banned term in my posts from now on) dual-mode cellular and WiFi Blackberry smartphone called the 8820.  Translated: this means it can be used by businessmen in their offices over WiFi and also out on the move over traditional GSM etc networks.

The perplexingly acronym loaded press release says the Blackberry is chock full of QWERTY GPS GPRS Wi-Fi MicroSD EDGE WEP WAP 802.11 a/b/g goodness. WTF? Well, it is basically the wet dream for every thrusting young punk looking to shake down a buck or two whilst checking emails and making phone calls whether over WiFi or on the Orange network.  It’s got GPS too so Nigel can make sure he picks his way between Latte vendors without getting lost down the backstreets and tripping over the poor people.

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