This is very strange. T-Mobile USA launched the 8320 on September 24, 2007, some 15 months earlier. The 8900 has already been launched in Germany and Canada, and is relatively imminent on T-Mobile USA and presumably also on AT&T. The 8900 completely replaces both the 8310 and 8320. Why bother introducing the 8320 at this extremely late stage? The only remotely plausible explanation I can conceive is that RIM built too many 8320 by accident and now needs someone to sell them for $49 or $99. Anybody who cares about performance, style, etc., will simply wait a few weeks -- perhaps 2 months at the most -- for the 8900. T-Mobile should have it by the first half of February and AT&T perhaps even earlier.
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This is very strange. T-Mobile USA launched the 8320 on September 24, 2007, some 15 months earlier. The 8900 has already been launched in Germany and Canada, and is relatively imminent on T-Mobile USA and presumably also on AT&T. The 8900 completely replaces both the 8310 and 8320. Why bother introducing the 8320 at this extremely late stage? The only remotely plausible explanation I can conceive is that RIM built too many 8320 by accident and now needs someone to sell them for $49 or $99. Anybody who cares about performance, style, etc., will simply wait a few weeks -- perhaps 2 months at the most -- for the 8900. T-Mobile should have it by the first half of February and AT&T perhaps even earlier.