Digital China and Research In Motion Launch the BlackBerry Curve 8910 Smartphone in China

From my 8900? Specs look identical.

Rim? Really? 8910? nothing different from the 8900 about it by the looks, they ask about the trackball? Well, it is not like they had to re engineer anything... so why would they change it? No 3g? same 512 processor.......is this just for asia market?

Yuck...trackball and no 3G? What year are we in? 2007?

Inexplicable move by RIM on using the trackball instead of the trackpad. Why, why, why...

Would it not be easier to throw away all the track balls and build only with pads as they said they would do...yes that was from a US rep probably but why not make a universal switch if you claim the pad is the next move forward...RIM SUCKS

i really hope i would have one blcakberry i love it!

w. h. auden

I live in Thailand and if the price is right people here will buy a "new" model BlackBerry with a Trackball. They are BB crazy and just want to be seen holding a real BB. If the device had a Trackpad people in Asia would buy them and sell them on eBay. RIM doesn't want that to happen. Also these markets don't really have 3G yet, so why waste money on the radio chips. It will sell well given the market it has been introduced to.

Same old, same old.....releasing old and outdated models just to milk $$$ and why would they even launch this phone w/ a english keyboard lol.

Did you guys even read the article. This thing has GPS which the 8900 doesnt. Thats about the only different feature it has. I hoped they would include a trackpad since I hate the trackball but here´s hoping for a future release.

the biggest difference i can see from the specs is theres no mention of wifi only gsm connectivity.......rim are not going to go to all the effort of redesigning the 8900 with a trackpad as it would be financially unviable, and there are many other reasons already metioned above in previous comments

Any model after the Tour should have a track pad....or change the name. RIM tisk tisk

Only reason RIM called it 8910 is, RIM has to cut WIFI from 8900 in order to be allowed to sell in China, another alternative is to have 8900 w/WiFI and support WAPI, answer is clear that cut WIFI out is much easier than supporting WAPI.

the most important reason 8910 doesn't have wifi is that carriers want people to use their expensive 3g data plans.
china unicom, the one carrier that had exclusive right to sell iphone in mainland china did this to iphone too. all iphones sold by it does not have wifi and require a relative expensive 3g data plan upon purchase. i dunno if any carrier is gonna have exclusive right to sell 8910 but it looks like that will be the case.
both apple and rim have to pay a price to the carriers to enter the chinese market, including cutting out wifi, downgrading cell phone hardware, and giving exclusive rights to carriers such that firms like china unicom can maximize their profit.
i agree though that rim is making a stupid move. i doubt if anyone is gonna purchase a 8910 if new bold, tour, storm, and curve series (and probably torch in the future) phones from US, europe, and hongkong carriers are sold in the black market at a price no higher than what you can get on ebay. apparently rim understands it has to pay a price to enter the market but 8910 is just too crappy that i expect it does nothing to increase rim's market share in china

one more comment, digital china is a crappy little company.
no idea why rim decided to choose it as its chinese partner

Call me crazy, but I still prefer the trackball. I just cant get used to the trackpad on the 8520, it just doesnt seem as responsive. And in my opinion, the ball scrolls much further than the pad.

i love having a trackball over a pad.. the tactile feel and accuracy is unmatched imo

i love having a trackball over a pad.. the tactile feel and accuracy is unmatched imo

how in the heck do they type those lil Chinese symbols on a keypad the same as ours... Without being bi-lingual?

Dear all, I am happy to see the discussion on how we input Chinese. I am using simplified Chinese and use Egnlish alphabet to spell the pronoucation and then transfer it to Chinese.

by the way I am using 8900 with Wifi which was HK carrier version. I really don't like the official 8910 because of the high price and lack of Wifi

Looking at that photo and reading the information, I really cannot see the difference between that and my 8900 except maybe it's a bit smaller and lighter. Also, I can't see the problem with the trackball. It might be because I've been using my 8900 since last November, but I had to use my friends 8520 the other day, and I really couldn't get to grips with the trackpad, it just seems hyper sensitive. I've also had no problems with my trackball like some people have been, I might just be lucky.

the 8910 isnt supported as a device model in app world for developers yet!

app world not in china ?

顺便看看中文。

干。。。

路过。

no wonder why they stopped selling 8900s in Hong kong

why do people ask about the "native input" support? Holy crap, while some people use different methods of Chinese input, the vast majority of Mandarin speakers use Pinyin, which uses 26-English letters to type out the sound of the words and you select from a list, this is the same on the Windows/Mac/iPhone/WinMo/Android/etc. etc. etc. BB has used this in Hong Kong phones as well, as well as the whole selection of other keyboard input methods common to a QWERTY. The only one this doesn't address is the touch-screen writing method, which would be an option on touchscreen variety BBs only. O well.