In the time that I've been covering the BlackBerry beat, from my observations I'd have to say when it comes to news, rumors and speculation the blogosphere is typically where it's at. Sure, mis-info and missed timelines do happen - but more often than not the info presented is a good indicator of what's going down and is typically wayyy ahead of what's being written in the "big media" sites.
That being said, it seems heading into the weekend some "big media" sites are dropping the BlackBerry rumor and speculation bombs.
In the CNN/Fortune blogs, Scott Moritz has put forth the notion that the release of the 3G BlackBerry Meteor aka 8900 is going to be pushed back until late August. Moritz's take is that the 3G iPhone will be released on June 27th (the iPhone's one year anniversary) and that AT&T wouldn't want to have two competing 3G phones hit the market at the same time, hence pushing back the 8900's release. According to Moritz there is speculation from people close to the company that AT&T is using a technical glitch (concerns about call quality) as the "reasoning" for the delay.
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