South Africa's Gold Medal winners get Gold BlackBerry Bold 9900
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But this was more than just any BlackBerry phone. It was a limited edition, top-of-the-line BlackBerry Bold 9900 in Gold that RIM's Managing Director of South Africa, Alexandra Zagury, handed over to each of the country's Gold Medal winners. The athletes awarded the Berry's included Cameron van der Burgh who set a new the world record and won a gold medal at the same time, in the Men's 100m Breaststroke, Chad le Clos who beat Michael Phelps to win a gold medal in the Men's 200m Butterfly as well as a silver medal in the Men's 100m Butterfly and all four members of the Men's Lightweight Four Rowing Team - James Thompson, Matthew Brittain, John Smith and Sizwe Ndlovu.
It's enough of an incentive to make BlackBerry fans in the country start training for the 2016 games.
source: Crackberry
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5. Ohrules posted on 02 Sep 2012, 17:19 8 2
what else? patriotism for south africa from a canadian company?
7. neutralguy posted on 02 Sep 2012, 22:12 2 0
HAHAHAHA this made me laugh. Captain obvious is here you know. :))
6. pikapowerize (banned) posted on 02 Sep 2012, 18:49 5 0
they love BlackBerry coz its really awesome and unique experience that is different from the competiton--iPhone, android and even Symbian and Windows Phone...
so stop hating blackberry hater!!! just accept the fact that BlackBerry is still relevant in some region.. and will be relevant after BB10 is release!
10. Nikolas.Oliver (limited) posted on 03 Sep 2012, 02:14 0 4
unique because they can't do anything other than bbm & email
12. pikapowerize (banned) posted on 03 Sep 2012, 02:32 1 1
yes past BB OS cant really do a lot of things.. but can do great multitasking... the browser is really not that good, and limited set of apps coz its RIM's fault releasing phones with different screen sizes... its a pain to devs ass developing apps for BB coz it has different screen sizes
but BB10 device will going to change that!!! and it will be great... BlackBerry's greatest OS ever YET!!!
13. Nikolas.Oliver (limited) posted on 03 Sep 2012, 03:03 1 1
how do you know that bb10 will going to change that ? unless you are a clairvoyant
14. pikapowerize (banned) posted on 03 Sep 2012, 03:13 1 1
because they already announce the screen size of their devices and its unified so that it will be easy for devs to create apps for the OS if it has unified screen size...
the brower of the PlayBook is now superior... and since BB10 is QNX base too.. they share same core..
PalyBook OS might be discontinued (but i dont have proof by this statement..PB OS might still have its updates) coz the current PB will be upgraded to BB10 so it is unified like apple with its iOS.. iOS is use by iPhone, iPod and iPad!
15. Nikolas.Oliver (limited) posted on 03 Sep 2012, 03:21 0 1
but there's nothing that make us feel "WOW" in bb 10, hd screen ? scalado camera (some camera technology related to time) ? quad core processor ?
android already has it!!
poor blackberry
16. pikapowerize (banned) posted on 03 Sep 2012, 03:33 1 1
yes.. android has it..but atleast they catch up and has unique features... some tech blogs like the verge attended a BlackBerry Jam and got a hand on the semi final version of BB10 and they are all positive and all the same" BlackBerry catch up with BB10 in competition and very futuristic, love the gesture just love everything"
and BB now catch up with BB10 and still has advantages like BBM and Email...
android is still messing up with that!
17. downphoenix posted on 03 Sep 2012, 13:14 0 0
PB still gets updates. I just got one last month.
19. pikapowerize (banned) posted on 03 Sep 2012, 20:31 0 0
yeah... is your PB runs on 2.0? you'll be happy that it will be updated to 2.1 and when BB10 is out, it will be updated again... i think Q2 or early Q3...
can android do that? NO!
20. Nikolas.Oliver (limited) posted on 04 Sep 2012, 01:54 0 0
yes it does....remember the article on PA "android jelly bean ported to the htc dream
blackberry os 6 phones can't be upgrade to os 7, it sucks
9. pikapowerize (banned) posted on 02 Sep 2012, 23:24 1 1
yeah... they need to be back on top... RIM is really one good company...
18. Just_a_boy posted on 03 Sep 2012, 14:02 1 0
BB phones are safe and they have that keyboard that is so amazing to type with


