Sprint getting orange BlackBerry Curve 8330, red 8350i

All eyes are on the Tour right now as far as the BlackBerry ecosystem on Sprint goes, but we might remind you that there are still several other RIM-supplied models in the company's lineup, including the 8330 and the iDEN-capable 8350i. If anything can divert even a scant few eyeballs away from that Tour, it might be some truly insane colors -- and that appears to be what Sprint has in the works. Launch documents over on BerryReview have an "Inferno Orange" 8330 soft launching today with a red 8350i following on at the end of the month. We don't know what shade of red to expect out of that 8350i -- which is typically a straight-up business phone, by the bye -- but we wouldn't be surprised if the 8330 took a page out of T-Mobile's Sunset playbook. Whether that's a good thing or not... well, that remains to be seen.

[Via PhoneDog]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2009 4:48PM]

I thought the Tour was launching on the 12th... what's the deal?

[periks19 Posted Jul 9th 2009 5:09PM]

Yeah thats what i taught too

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2009 5:31PM]

thats probably in-store, the Tour coming on the 12 is only on Telesales as far as i know

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2009 6:34PM]

Man can we not get any info on the touch pro 2 for sprint.

[Shawn Posted Jul 10th 2009 1:58PM]

Why can't sprint release some smartphones with Qchat on them? Seriously; the Blackberry with iDen support is great and all, but what about those of us who still like to use Direct Connect but also love our Sprint smartphones with EVDO data? With Qchat we can have best of both worlds since the Qchat chips are completely compatible to talk to iDen subscribers. Am I the only one here who feels Sprint should stick more Qchat chips in more phones?