After playing a little hide and seek with offering BlackBerry devices and services, Fido seems finally determined to make the move and display the handsets for sale. According to the latest news on the Web, Fido representatives and CSRs have been announced that the BlackBerries are on their way and that they will start training sometime next week.
Moreover, it seems that Fido employees have said that the company will have the Pearl 8100 as the first device available from the line. This doesn't sound too good, some voices over the Internet say, and Fido is rather expected to go for the 8220 at full throttle, mainly due to the fact that RIM announced about a year ago the end of the device's life cycle.
Given this situation, Fido wouldn't be able to order any Pearl 8100s, although word has it that it may try to grab whatever devices its parent company Rogers has failed to sell. On the other hand, even if Fido manages to grab some 8100s, place its logo on the cover and print some boxes, the phones would still display the Rogers logo when booting up, since it has been included into the phone's firmware.
At the time, these would only look as speculations, yet, given the fact that Fido is expected to eventually start selling BlackBerry devices, some of them are legitimate. Even the reports that the company might consider using the VSM tool to put a Fido logo into the firmware could be seen as such. Of course, in order to make the move, Fido would have quite a lot of work to do, as it needs to upgrade all 8100s from OS 4.2.1 to 4.5, but it is doable.
Hopefully, Fido users will soon have a reason to rejoice. We're waiting for official announcements to see how soon the BlackBerries will finally come to them.
source : http://news.softpedia.com
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