As the flood of device release rumors hit the airwaves, the latest of the bunch is this blurry as hell image from Rogers. From the looks of it, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 could land on Rogers as early as August 9th. If you manage to make out the last line, you can see it reads "Tentative Launch Date August 9" ... or 3 ... or 6. Fingers crossed that it's one of them at least. We can expect to know for sure after all the BB 7 Fan Night fun goes down, so you hopefully only have to hang tight for another day or so before we get some official info.
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