{"id":566949,"date":"2010-05-17T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/2010\/05\/17\/sprint-launches-blackberry-bold-9650-a-week-early\/"},"modified":"2010-05-17T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:20:00","slug":"sprint-launches-blackberry-bold-9650-a-week-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566949","title":{"rendered":"Sprint launches BlackBerry Bold 9650 a week early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/5\/105296-Screen_shot_2010-05-17_at_10.11.45_AM.png\" alt=\"BlackBerry Bold 9650\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looks like this &#8216;Berry couldn&#8217;t wait to get out of the gate, as it&#8217;s live on Sprint&#8217;s website, a week earlier than the scheduled May 23rd launch.&nbsp; Features include OS 5.0, RIM&#8217;s new trackpad, a slightly revamped keyboard, and Wi-Fi, all wrapped in Bold branding.&nbsp; If you remember back to the good ol&#8217; Tour days, Sprint and Verizon launched the device at the exact same time.&nbsp; Looks like Sprint will be getting the initial glory this time around.<\/p>\n<p>The $199.99 (after mail-in rebate) pricing is exactly the same as the upcoming HTC EVO 4G, which (in my mind, at least) casts a bit of doubt on high sales numbers.&nbsp; Then again, maybe that&#8217;s why Sprint decided to jump the gun and throw it up on the website a week early.&nbsp; Anyone planning on picking up the 9650 today?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/05\/17\/sprint-blackberry-bold-9650-goes-on-sale-a-little-early\/\" >Engadget<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IBopMVtGJdS_iV8774BHNOC_kD4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IBopMVtGJdS_iV8774BHNOC_kD4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IBopMVtGJdS_iV8774BHNOC_kD4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IBopMVtGJdS_iV8774BHNOC_kD4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/C3iROUH13ws\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like this &#8216;Berry couldn&#8217;t wait to get out of the gate, as it&#8217;s live on Sprint&#8217;s website, a week earlier than the scheduled May 23rd launch.&nbsp; Features include OS 5.0, RIM&#8217;s new trackpad, a slightly revamped keyboard, and Wi-Fi, all wrapped in Bold branding.&nbsp; If you remember back to the good ol&#8217; Tour days, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566949","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\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}