O2 has announced that the curiously non-3G BlackBerry Curve 8900 (formerly known as the 'Javelin') will be released on January 5th 2009. It's going to be available for pre-registration from tomorrow (Dec 10th), and for pre-order from Dec 22nd on the O2 website. Maybe I'm missing something here, but is this phone eagerly awaited? I haven't heard anyone getting excited about the release, but with all this pre-reg and pre-order shenanigans, it seems like people are dying to get their hands on the device.