15 Comments to “FAQ: Devices That Will Support BlackBerry OS 5.0 Upgrade!”

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   Posted by: boy_de_ghet

   October 26, 2009 at 2:07 am EST

   When OS 5.0 Released for Bold ?

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   Posted by: cnn9000

   October 26, 2009 at 2:49 am EST

   Bb with more than 64mb of memory will get OS 5.0. Not sure why the 8520 isn’t listed. Could be a mistake

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     Posted by: AdiSan

     October 26, 2009 at 5:10 am EST

     RIM want to pitch 8520 devices as low cost devices. Hence, To keep a difference between 8520 and the beefier 8900 they are not releasing 5.0 for 8520. I do not think RIM would make a major mistake in such a crucial matter.

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   Posted by: m0m0

   October 26, 2009 at 3:56 am EST

   there will be hell to pay if they kept gemini out!!

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   Posted by: Phoenix

   October 26, 2009 at 4:29 am EST

   Initially (several months ago) they’d made it sound like 81xx, 83xx, and 88xx devices would be getting 5.0. I’d wondered then how well that work. Those devices struggled (spinning hourglass and lags) with OS 4.5 unless you removed modules to clear space or limited loading third party apps. I’d have been surprised if they wound up useable with 5.0’s extra size loaded.

   I’m guessing the 8330 only gets it since the newer ones and the World Edition ones have 96 Mb memory. Too bad, specially since the 8220 really isn’t a 100% alternative to the 81xx series.

   This really isn’t too much of a surprise though, RIM seems intent to release 4 or so handsets a year, so they’re likely going to be looking forward now more so than looking back.

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   Posted by: Luis Merlos

   October 26, 2009 at 8:24 am EST

   there is already an 8520 5.0 OS leak so I doubt they will leave that device out.

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   Posted by: DavidB

   October 26, 2009 at 8:52 am EST

   The KB explains it. No 64MB, no 5.0.

   What’s a “World Edition” 8330? Who offered that?

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   Posted by: jgold47

   October 26, 2009 at 8:52 am EST

   I ran a leaked 5.0 on my 8330. Lets just say that when I am ready for 5.0, I will buy a tour. It was pretty suspect. The ‘new’ features were definately not worth it, after install and I am pretty anal about keeping my free memory up, I was only getting about 13mb left over, and the thing just was sloowwww. Plus a lot of websites were not rendering correctly.

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   Posted by: pnut69

   October 26, 2009 at 9:20 am EST

   so will the 8330m get the 5.0 upgrade no one has spoke on this yet. cause i will not be getting a new bb until june 2010 but i would still like to run the 5.0 until i can get my new bb.

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     Posted by: Luis Merlos

     October 26, 2009 at 7:27 pm EST

     it seems like it will, you will probably find out soon.

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   Posted by: Terrence

   October 26, 2009 at 11:14 am EST

   WHAT?! WHAT HAPPENED TO 8320!!!!!!!

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    Posted by: Dani

    October 27, 2009 at 8:42 pm EST

    My feeling is not true the statement that RIM does not support the 8520 models with OS 5.0 and BlackBerry 8520 has been qualified among them have more memory than 64 MB.

    try to read again, there is not a list of the BlackBerry 9520 and 9700 and 9550

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    Posted by: Ronen Halevy

    October 27, 2009 at 10:15 pm EST

    Yeah but none of those devices are released yet… Until tomorrow

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    Posted by: seymour

    November 5, 2009 at 6:51 am EST

    Well it is about the 8330 gets an official release before any 9xxx. We are always 2nd rate to the newer models!

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      Posted by: DavidB

      November 5, 2009 at 7:24 am EST

      Its not about being “second rate”. At some point life goes on and while those of us left behind by the march of progress can have our gripes about little things like this sometimes there ARE upsides! A lot of people were eligible and bought a 9630 right when it came out and those who weren’t eligible but are now or soon will are gonna have far more device options (9550, 9650, 8530/8550) while we are “second rate” and can’t have optical trackpad or WiFi or whatever for another year and a half. Plus what other totally unknown devices might launch by the time you guys are eligible? A 8950 maybe? Or a 9750? Or something completely unforseen yet? Old devices get left behind in the upgrade cycle. We never got 4.5 for any of the 7xxx series, a lot of us then had to wait for a new device before we could marvel in the splendor of HTML email…

      From my BlackBerry Tour…

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