Comments on: FAQ: Devices That Will Support BlackBerry OS 5.0 Upgrade!

By: DavidB

DavidB — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:24:54 +0000

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…

By: seymour

seymour — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:51:19 +0000

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

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:15:34 +0000

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

By: Dani

Dani — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:42:17 +0000

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

By: Luis Merlos

Luis Merlos — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:27:50 +0000

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

By: Terrence

Terrence — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:14:44 +0000

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

By: pnut69

pnut69 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:20:12 +0000

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.

By: jgold47

jgold47 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:52:56 +0000

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.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:52:28 +0000

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

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

By: Luis Merlos

Luis Merlos — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:24:25 +0000

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

By: AdiSan

AdiSan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:10:13 +0000

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.

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:29:00 +0000

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.

By: m0m0

m0m0 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:56:33 +0000

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

By: cnn9000

cnn9000 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:49:39 +0000

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

By: boy_de_ghet

boy_de_ghet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:07:01 +0000

When OS 5.0 Released for Bold ?