RIM decide to do something clever with their BlackBerry. They made a CDMA BlackBerry that is loaded with features. It's 0.55 inches thick, has the four-way trackball navigation, and a microSD memory card slot. The 8830 provides EVDO high-speed data on CDMA networks and GPRS data on GSM 900 / 1800 networks overseas. It also supports Bluetooth 2.0, GPS, media player, and a large QVGA display. It has a sim card slot, the idea is, when in US, you use it as a CDMA phone. (both Sprint and Verizon will offer this phone.), when you are over seas, you buy a sim card, slide it in, it disables the CDMA and turns into GSM world phone, so your blackberry continue to work, a totally lovely idea.
Leave it to Verizon to mess it up, Sprint of course leaves the sim card slot unlocked. and didn't temper with the blue tooth. On the other hand, Verizon LOCKS the sim card slot to vodaphone only, and cripple bluetooth. What a way to ruin a good phone.
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