The FCC can always be counted on to confirm devices that RIM has yet to announce. The latest to pass through is the BlackBerry Curve 9360 and 9370. What is interesting is that this FCC filing confirms that the device is sporting an NFC radio like the Bold 9900. It was spotted by Pete6032 on CrackBerry forums and then spread.
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The confidentiality period for RIM’s submissions to the FCC are now over which means there are more goodies to be found. Dsquared2 (via BBNews.pl) noticed that you can now find the internal pictures for the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 along with the BlackBerry Torch 9810, 9850, & 9860. All of these devices are disassembled in the PDF for their Internal photos at the links below:
Let us know if you spot anything good in the pictures or in the released FCC filings.
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We mentioned when RIM announced the BlackBerry Torch 9810 & 9850/9860 that we were surprised they did not have NFC built in like the Bold 9900 and 9930. We just assumed that meant that previous reports of the BlackBerry Curve 9360 packing NFC were also incorrect. One of our new tipsters did some sleuthing and found that the BlackBerry Curve 9360 actually HAS NFC according to its OS. Odd right?
As you can see in these pictures the BlackBerry Curve 9360 reports back that it has NFC along with the same options as the Bold 9900. Also notice the little NFC lightning bolt style icons in the picture above. The main oddity is that it does not have the NFC antenna in the battery door like the Bold 9900. I am not sure what to make of that. Let us know what you think!
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I am not sure how we all missed this before but previous spec leaks for the BlackBerry Torch 9810, 9850, and 9860 said that the device had NFC. I noticed in RIM’s announcement this morning that NFC was nowhere to be seen for these devices which had me wondering. So I checked back to the FCC filings for the 9900/9930, 9810, and 9850/9860 and noticed something interesting. When looking over the Test Report for all 3 only the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 had a logged Near Field Communications test performed. The product pages also only list the 9900 as having NFC for “accessory pairing and smart tag reading/writing.”
Check out the filings for yourself:
I am not sure why RIM would not want this feature to have parity across all next gen BlackBerry devices but it has me scratching my head wondering why. I know the NFC is built into the battery cover for the 9900 but I just assumed they managed to hide it better in the 9810 and 9850/9860. What do you think of this? I was planning on getting the 9900 (GodBerry) either way but now it makes it truly the flagship BlackBerry.
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First we saw the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and then the BlackBerry Torch 2 9810 blow past the FCC approval process. Now we have the all touch BlackBerry Torch 9850 and 9860 also showing up on the FCC website spotted by Engadget. This new model has three variants which hints to a CDMA and two GSM models. In other words one for Sprint/Verizon, one for regular GSM (Think AT&T), and one for GSM AWS (Like T-Mobile and WIND Canada). These devices show up as three models RDH71CW / RDP71UW / RDQ71UW,
The devices show as supporting Wi-Fi and Bluetooth along with the following frequencies per model:
Check out the filings on the FCC website at this link. Thanks Tashanna for the tip!
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Un paso más en que tengamos la BlackBerry Bold 9900 entre nosotros, por lo visto ya ha pasado en trámite necesario de certificación por la FCC, Federal Communications Commission.
Fuente: Wireless Goodness
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 just got on step further to ending up in your hand. It was spotted in the FCC database this week which means it is now approved for sale in the US. It also is packing a NFC radio as we already know which has also been approved. This seems to be for the GSM/HSPA+ 9900 version but hopefully the CDMA variant will be released shortly thereafter.
via WirelessGoodness via SlashGear
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