Yesterday afternoon at the Kickstart Forum up in Queensland, there was a bit of a panel discussion about the government’s IT policy over the past 12 months. You know, NBN, Internet Filter, structural separation of Telstra… All those things that mean we get to have a “Conroy” tag. On the panel were (among others) Senator Scott Ludlam from the Greens and Exetel chief John Linton, who thought the discussion would be a perfect opportunity to call all Labor voters “stupid” and argue that gamers have no life. More »
If it hadn’t been leaked so damn much, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 would be something of a surprise. Not simply because it’s the first-ever clamshell BlackBerry, but the fact that RIM went in this direction at all, especially when you look at the rest of its new phones, with their clean, almost aerodynamic lines, and compare them to this beefy slab of a phone. Landing on T-Mobile today, the big-boned Pearl Flip is aimed at people graduating to their first smartphone, and it definitely has its own kind of charm. galleryPost('blackberrypearlflip', 3, '');
The latest on RIM’s blocky clamshell monstrosity, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip, is that it’ll be out by the end of this month at the latest, and maybe as early as Oct. 15. Apparently, RIM will not be making a steroid-supercharged play for the masses as previously rumoured. No, on T-Mobile, it’ll be $US150 with a two-year contract, or $US200 with a one-year contract, not the perhaps delusionally low $US49 originally floated. Which is unfortunate, ’cause not only is $US99—$US129 tops—a sweet spot, I just don’t see anyone paying that much for a phone this awkward, even if it is a full-fledged BlackBerry. [CrackBerry]
