Investment firm Allen & Co's Sun Valley, Idaho media summit is a place for the world's wealthiest and most influential decision-makers to chill out, enjoy a couple double Macallans on the rocks, and talk shop. It might even be a rare opportunity to escape to the comfort of a competitor's product -- a guilty pleasure you wouldn't dream of indulging in more buttoned-up environments. Google CEO Eric Schmidt was caught snapping a candid shot from a BlackBerry (we're pretty sure it's a
Curve 8900) at the event -- and yes, granted,
Google makes apps for BlackBerrys, but when there's a phone
that bears your company's own name, it feels just a little bit like cheating, doesn't it? We guess the big, ratty Google sticker adds back a sliver of street cred, but it's not like this thing's packing some furiously awesome camera that a
Magic,
Dream, or
Hero doesn't. How's Gmail treatin' you there, Eric? You're using that, at least, right?
[Via
CNN]
posted Jul 9th 2009 7:47PM
It appears to me to be a Storm!
That's what I was thinking. I'm looking at the back of a Storm right now, and that thing is a dead ringer.
Dude really needs to get a decent phone.
Blackberry is the best smartphone with email/calendar capability. Yes there are tons of other phones which do better music, internet, movies, Fart Apps, .... but none of them does email as good as BB.
I'm kinda disappointed that he does not use Android. I know few people from Google and none of them uses Android. What kind of message does this send to the community?
I've got nothing against Blackberry. I own a few, and use one as my main phone/email device.
My problem is with the Storm.
That's actually not a sticker -- it's an egrip. Pretty amazing little things actually. They prevent small devices like phones, from flying off your car's dashboard when you turn. Our company had a bunch made with our logo and hand them out when we go places.
lol. fail. he might as well have an iphone cus he's on the board of apple right?
maybe its a blackberry.....with google. u never know stranger things have happened
You're right, you never know!! Stranger things have happened... like Windows Mobile on a Treo!! I remember what a HUGE deal that was back in 2007.
That is no curve. It is a Verizon Storm.
It's a Curve. Look closely at where the camera panel starts on the back in relation to the edge of the phone. Find a picture of the back of the 8900 and the Storm and compare.
It is clear to me that it is a Storm running Android...
then Google rocks if it is what you said. storm running andriod..=.=