That successor to AT&T's wildly popular
LG Shine that we
spied back in August has finally popped official today, becoming the Shine II (surprise, surprise). It's a very evolutionary set -- if you squint, you can't see much difference from the original -- but this might be a situation where it's in AT&T's best interest not to mess with success just as long as they don't end up pulling a RAZR over the next several years. It's got a 2 megapixel cam, a mirror-finish 2.2-inch LCD, GPS, 3.6Mbps HSDPA, and microSD expansion to 16GB; look for it on November 22 for $119.99 after rebate on contract. Perhaps more notably, the
BlackBerry Curve 8520 has migrated from T-Mobile over to AT&T today with the same EDGE data and optical pad as its cousin; it'll be hitting in the "coming weeks" for $99.99 after rebate. Of course, the
Bold 9700 hits on the 22nd for a hundie more, so there'll be some soul searching among AT&T-based BlackBerry lovers over the next few days, we suspect.
posted Nov 16th 2009 1:46PM
The Curve will be a good addition, however, it's a downgrade from the 8900. Especialy with a 2 megapixel shooter. More importantly, I never heard of AT&T dropping a phone on a Sunday. The 22nd is indeed a Sunday! However I'd welcome the Bold2 to drop sooner then later.
at&t now launches all phones on sunday's...the 1st and 3rd sunday of every month to be exact, unless the first sundays just happens to be the first of the month.
I'll take a 6600 Slide over that Shine any day of the week.
Of course the 8520 is "just as good" as the Bold2 because every at&t customer knows that EDGE is "just as good" as 3G, but 3G is just "a little bit faster" so since nobody in their right mind browses the web with a Blackberry, might as well go with the "just as good" phone for the "EDGE is good enough for most" network.
/sarcasm
Yes Lots of SARCASM haha