{"id":32982,"date":"2009-10-26T14:26:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T18:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/10\/26\/blackberry-5-0-t-mobile-price-cuts-more-mobile-monday-madness\/"},"modified":"2009-10-26T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T18:26:04","slug":"blackberry-5-0-t-mobile-price-cuts-more-mobile-monday-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/32982","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry 5.0, T-Mobile Price Cuts &amp; More Mobile Monday Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/blackberry-storm-2.jpg?w=205&#038;h=159\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"159\" \/>What a Monday it is turning out to be for the mobile industry &#8212; one major news announcement after another. Three of the most notable include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BlackBerry 5.0, the latest operating system update for RIM devices, is out. <a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/2009\/10\/26\/verizon-launches-blackberry-storm-2-this-week-os-5-0-for-storm-today\/\">James Kendrick from jkOnTheRun has the details<\/a>. From what I understand, it has follow-up flags for email, which makes it pretty useful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>T-Mobile USA caused a major upheaval yesterday when it announced an everything unlimited plan for $79 a month. You just need to bring your own devices. <a href=\"http:\/\/skydeck.com\/blog\/mobile-market\/t-mobile-opens-up-the-us-cell-phone-market.\">Jason Devitt, CEO of Skydeck and one of our favorite mobile industry insiders,<\/a> thinks this is a major development as it indicates that the market might be ready to transition from the culture of two-year contracts and subsidized phones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Verizon is <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/10\/26\/why-verizons-next-few-quarters-look-promising\/\">betting that a slew of new devices<\/a>, including the Android-powered Droid, are going to push its sales up in the coming quarters. The company needs a hit phone badly: It added 1.2 million new subscribers in the third quarter vs. 2 million added by archnemesis AT&amp;T during the same period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=76908&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/ads.gigaom.com\/proxy.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fads.gigaom.com%2Fopenx%2Fwww%2Fdelivery%2Fck.php%3Foaparams%3D2__bannerid%3D154__zoneid%3D1__cb%3Db36a53821f__oadest%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fostatic.com%252Fsponsored%252Fconcentric' ><img src='http:\/\/ads.gigaom.com\/openx\/www\/images\/1b20b30bace333f83c85c4be1366923a.gif' width='300' height='100' alt='' title='' border='0' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id='beacon_b36a53821f' style='position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; visibility: hidden;'><img src='http:\/\/ads.gigaom.com\/openx\/www\/delivery\/lg.php?bannerid=154&amp;campaignid=12&amp;zoneid=1&amp;loc=http%3A%2F%2Fads.gigaom.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fgigaom.com%252Ffeed%252F%253Fnoredirect%253D1&amp;cb=b36a53821f' width='0' height='0' alt='' style='width: 0px; height: 0px;' \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=laz7_kKcGZs:K5YXIYV8lwA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=laz7_kKcGZs:K5YXIYV8lwA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=laz7_kKcGZs:K5YXIYV8lwA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=laz7_kKcGZs:K5YXIYV8lwA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=laz7_kKcGZs:K5YXIYV8lwA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=laz7_kKcGZs:K5YXIYV8lwA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=laz7_kKcGZs:K5YXIYV8lwA:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=laz7_kKcGZs:K5YXIYV8lwA:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/laz7_kKcGZs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a Monday it is turning out to be for the mobile industry &#8212; one major news announcement after another. Three of the most notable include: BlackBerry 5.0, the latest operating system update for RIM devices, is out. James Kendrick from jkOnTheRun has the details. From what I understand, it has follow-up flags for email, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}