Oh Nextel…

…you merge with Sprint, we forgo amazing customer support, AND our new phones still take 2 years to come along?!

Absolutely can’t wait for this new Blackberry to make it on to the Nextel network. I will have a full keyboard for emailing/texting (although not so PC for business) from the boat, the bar, or … eek… while in the car and not from this modified keyboard on a brick!

Naturally, my Nextel partner-in-crime sent me a email the other day with only this info:

From: Brandon
To: Lisa
Subject: new bb info

http://www.sprintenterprise.com/newphones/curve.html

No other explanation needed.

From the tech world – they must have been thinking about me exactly when they wrote this:

“Sprint today unveiled the BlackBerry Curve 8350i Push-to-Talk for its cute little Nextel customers. Our wild guess is that this is a limited run, aimed at the last four people on earth who somehow need a real business smartphone but still use Nextel.”Absolutely, spot on.

I have also dearly missed the built-in camera feature for those random times when my digital camera is nowhere near:

“The BlackBerry Curve 8350i smartphone offers a 2 megapixel camera with video recording and a microSD memory card slot, which ensures that you will have plenty of storage for pictures and music. The handset features on-board GPS navigation, an integrated music player, and Bluetooth A2DP stereo connectivity.”No pricing and no date info yet? Bad form Nextel/Sprint… bad form. Basic principles of services marketing tell us that consumers respond better to a given wait time up-front than no estimate at all – they even interpret the wait as long than actual experienced when they aren’t given an approximate wait time.

10/5/08 Update: Video preview!! Please, please, please let this be here before Christmas so I can get one in my stocking!

Lisa Jeffries Nobling

Posted by Lisa Jeffries Nobling

A good old-fashioned Southern girl - at home in the modern world.

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2 Replies to “Oh Nextel…”

  1. YAY! Being text PC.

    Please don’t text your boss. Don’t be afraid, just call.

  2. Bwahaha, as long as it’s her you mean to contact… right 😉

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