| 3 different versions of the 8800?
Okay, now I am going to play Mr. Skeptical here for a minute and ask:
Will there really be 3 different versions of the 8800, as we are led to believe by recent pictures?
I am not saying there won't be or there will be, but stating that before we get our hopes up on any one certain model, maybe we should ask ourselves if pictures that we see are actual finalized pictures of what will be the new devices or if they are just initial blue prints of what the devices may look like.
Above are the pictures that are dubbed as the next rounds of the Full QWERTY BlackBerry devices.
Below are the 8700C, 8700G and 8707v devices:
So those all being compared side by side, let me state why I personally believe that the 8800 devices above will not all be released as they are in the picture, but rather a combination of them or just one of them.
As many people who work in production know, price of manufacturing is the bottom line. The cheaper you can make a product, the better, and how do you keep prices down? You don't do it by having different shaped and designed parts for what you produce.
Look at the 8800 devices above. Notice that each device has different shapped keys on the keyboard. I am not saying that one has qwertz, look past that. Look at the actual shape of the keys themselves. Each device is different. Same thing can be said about the Talk/Menu/Back/End keys. Each device is different.
Now look at the actual shell of the phone. As brought up before, the all black version is missing a 2nd convenience key, while it is present on the other two devices.
Also, look down towards the bottom of the phone. The microphone is clearly visible on the far right device in the bottom right hand corner (which is actually opposite of where it is located on the 8700). On the other two devices it seems as if the microphone is located in the center of the device.
Now, also the LED display lights are located in different areas. This isn't too much of a concern because of the fact that it's the exterior case.
Now take a look at the 8700 and 8707 series devices.
While they Send/End/Browser key are pretty much the same, with the exception Tmobile being a little larger, they are pretty much the same device. Yes, the actual housing is a little different, however, the keys remain the same. Buttons in the same place on the side, etc.
What this points to is this:
The 8800 devices, if in fact all 3 of the above pictured, are all produced and released in 3 different versions, then I would be surprised.
The 8700 devices, the way they are, all are set up the same way internally.
With the 8800 devices that are shown above, the internals would have to be different. Yes, they may only be slightly different, but would RIM really waste the time and money to do seperate internal placing of items on the device when they can just slap all the devices together the same with just the outside housing changed?
With the all black device, you would have to move the microphone to the side of the device when on the other two devices it appears they would be in the middle.
Also, why would RIM produce 2 devices with side convenience keys, and 1 without if they are essentially going to be branded as the same type of device.
I could be wrong, who knows, but before we go around bragging about the next BB is going to look like such and such, maybe we need to just slow down real quick.
Unlike the Pearl, none of the devices have actually been photographed "for real". Once one is photographed in someone's hands, then we can start on speculation for the final designed product.
Right now, there is a good chance that these are just preliminary blue prints of what the devices MAY look like.
Or maybe this is a test from RIM themselves. Leak some pre-prototype builds, listen to what people have to say and go from there.
Who knows until we see one in person.
What do you all think?
*I will probably edit this post because I did this kind of quick and probably have spelling mistakes and the same thing written over a few times.
*Yes, the photos above were from engadget and the RIM website before people start pointing fingers blaming for not giving credit on the photos.
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