Bavarian BlackBerry Curve 8900s now shipping

T-Mobile Germany's product page still claims that it's not yet available, but reports are filtering in that RIM's BlackBerry Curve 8900 has started to ship to customers in the land of Oktoberfest, lederhosen, and over-engineered automobiles. That doesn't do North Americans terribly much good, unfortunately -- Germans use a QWERTZ keyboard layout, so even if you could get the sucker unlocked, you'd accidentally be typing "zes" instead of "yes" for the rest of your life -- so go ahead and give into the envy for a few weeks while you wait for some more launches to go down. We'll keep you updated, we promise.

[Via CrackBerry]

[carcomptoy Posted Nov 27th 2008 1:12PM]

It wouldn't be too hard to put the correct keyboard software on there--and then add a QWERTY keyboard from eBay or cnn.cn or something. I mean, if you were REALLY that anxious.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 27th 2008 1:30PM]

The blackberry 8900 is really hot. I like it alot. Fortunately I live in Germany and will be able to purchase it soon ;).

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 27th 2008 1:49PM]

All i need is this on VZW

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 28th 2008 12:13AM]

Why is the WORLD would someone make a QWERTZ keyboard, in the first place?

I've read that the letter z is much more common than y in German... but...

God I hate inconsistencies!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 28th 2008 10:25AM]

Because not every country in the world uses the alphabet the same as we do. Or for that matter, even use the English alphabet. Heck, why does Europe use different HSDPA frequencies than we do? That's the one to be more upset about. Because of that, we can't take full advantage of phones like the Touch HD.