Should the blackberry have more models which roam in Korea or Japan?
By blazes
@blazes (20)
Singapore
October 6, 2007 10:45am CST
I use the blackberry 8700G for IT / technical support purposes at work. One of the grumbles from staff are that it's useless when traveling in Korea or Japan simply because they can't roam there. And for the models that do roam, it's just not that aesthetically pleasing. Shouldn't RIM have the models like the Curve , classic 8700G enabled for these 2 countries?
1 response
@netkey (7)
• Australia
8 Nov 07
One of the main downsides with Blackberry is because it is made by a Candian company (called RIM), it cannot be made to support other technologies such as WCDMA and 3G. Japan's minimum network is a 3G network, whereas Canada and US only run off 2G Technology. My best suggestion is to purchase a 8707g, as it is the only 3G Blackberry phone, I use one. It is very similar to the 8700g. As the majority of RIM's customers are based in the US and Canada and other countries use 2G (like UK and Australia), there is no business case at the moment to start making and selling phones to support Korea or Japan.
