Category: Storm 9500 Series

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VZW BlackBerry Storm 9530 Internal Video!

By James on Sep 15, 2008 in BlackBerry, Featured News, Rumors, Storm 9500 Series, USA, Verizon.

So as you may or may not know VZW show their employees today a sneak preview of the BlackBerry Storm. The Storm has been named by Verizon to “Take the World by Storm” and will be RIM’s first ever touch screen smartphone. The good folks over at CrackBerry managed to score the actual internal video that VZW employees saw. The sound quailty is a little poor but check it out:

UPDATE: Here is a copy of VZW’s Minute with Mike video in higher quality.

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

Key Features of the BlackBerry Storm 9530 World Edition include:

- World Edition meaning it will be CDMA/GSM for Worldwide use in over 195 desinations
- One of the highest resolution displays on the market to date
- Amazing Haptic Technology for its touch screen (read more)
- CDMA EV-DO Rev. A high speed data
- 3.2 megapixel camera
- 1GB internal memory and is expandable with MicroSD
- and of course its BlackBerry powered! :-)

Internal Document of Talking Points for BlackBerry Storm:

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Details about Verizon’s BlackBerry Storm

By James on Sep 15, 2008 in BlackBerry, Rumors, Storm 9500 Series, USA, Verizon.

A few details have arrived regarding the Verizon email that reps received. Well today is Monday and everyone is hoping that Verizon will be announcing the BlackBerry Storm 9530 today. Well nothing officially has happened yet, but some Verizon employees got a chance to get some extra details.

Here’s a blurp from CrackBerry member Rjsumthin:

- Just a brief introduction, nothing to do with a website.
- The name is the Storm – “Designed to take the world by storm” global marketing name since it’s available to work in 195 destinations or more.
- One of the highest resolution screens on the market today…. no details….
- Revolutionary Touch Screen
- High Speed HTML
- 3.2 MP camera with lots of multimedia capabiliteies….
- Visual Voicemail
- And everything else blackberry is known for….
- Lots of images and videos for us internal people… it looks AMAZING!!!!!  Sorry I can’t post the video for ya, you would be drooling!

Anyways that’s a good start. Now if an luck at all Verizon will make some details public. So keep an eye on VerizonWireless.com/Storm and maybe just maybe we will see more.

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Verizon announcing BlackBerry Storm on Monday?

By James on Sep 13, 2008 in BlackBerry, Featured News, Rumors, Storm 9500 Series, USA, Verizon.

Interesting news is floating around about an internal email going around Verizon’s office. Apparently Verizon has some exciting news to share with us on Monday. A big finger print is also on the side of the image, which might point to a touch screen device. We can only hope that Verizon and RIM will be announcing the BlackBerry Storm (aka Thunder) 9530 World Edition on Monday.

If this is true (which we hope it is!) we don’t get why RIM or Verizon didn’t make an announcement at CTIA Fall 08′. Anyways stay tuned!

Read more about the BlackBerry Thunder/Storm Touch Screen smartphone >>

[Source: HowardForums]

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BlackBerry Thunder/Storm gets caught on video!!

By James on Sep 10, 2008 in BlackBerry, Featured News, Storm 9500 Series, Videos.

That’s right! It finally happend! The BlackBerry Thunder/Storm got caught on video by some guy called “BrewNinja” (look out Boy Genius! kidding). Anyways we finally get to see the touch screen in action along with the home screen icons. The device is very interesting looking and the guy goes on the say that he doesn’t like it but the keyboard is good. Check out the video (you need to scroll through it a little bit as the guy shows three devices: HTC Coke, LG Lotus and then The Thunder):

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Anyways I’m sure RIM has some improving to do on the unit before its officially released but at least we got to see it!

Edit: Looks like the original video was taken down… Here is another one found on Youtube.

Big thanks to Kevin @ CrackBerry for posting this.

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BlackBerry Storm brews closer for Verizon

By James on Sep 04, 2008 in BlackBerry, Featured News, Rumors, Storm 9500 Series, USA, Verizon.

Great news has just arrived from the Boy Genius! It seems that the BlackBerry Storm 9530 (formally known as Thunder) has been moved into Technical Acceptance by Verizon. This means that usually devices in this process are 3-4 weeks away. However the device may be delayed internally by RIM for an additional 3-4 weeks. This will give them enough time to work out all of the kinks (ie. the touch screen) but with any luck at all we may see it sometime in November.

As always stay tuned for more information!!

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BlackBerry Javelin 8900 will feature OS 4.7

By James on Sep 04, 2008 in BlackBerry, BlackBerry OS, Curve 8900 Series, Rumors, Storm 9500 Series.

So most of you are still rocking RIM’s OS 4.5 and lower (unless you got your hands on a Bold, then you have 4.6). BBCool is reporting that RIM’s next up BlackBerry Javelin, which is the Curve replacement will be running OS 4.7. This new version of RIM’s OS will look a lot like the BlackBerry Bold’s OS, however its expected to give support for 16GB Micro SD cards and an updated version of the full HTML browser. The new browser should fix all errors users are currently having when browsing sites loaded with Javascripts.

OS 4.7 should make its debut on RIM’s first touchscreen smartphone, the BlackBerry Thunder/Storm later this year as well.

Read up more on the BlackBerry Javelin >>

Read up more on the BlackBerry Thunder/Storm >>

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Telus BlackBerry Storm/Thunder 9530 confirmed…

By James on Aug 30, 2008 in BlackBerry, Breaking News, Canada, Featured News, Storm 9500 Series, Telus, Un-Released models.
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We have confirmed with two sources that Telus will be launching RIM’s first touchscreen BlackBerry later this year, however details are still a little sketchy. You may have already heard that Verizon is launching the Storm and Vodafone plus maybe Rogers as well. Well after we didn’t hear about Telus we started digging. Two close sources (who both confirmed Telus launching the Pearl 8130 last year) confirmed Telus will launch the 9530 before or around Christmas this year. Now at this time we don’t have any pricing or official dates but stay tuned!

Keep in Sync with all BlackBerry Thunder/Storm realted news >>

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BlackBerry Storm/Thunder gets boxed for Verizon

By James on Aug 27, 2008 in BlackBerry, Breaking News, Featured News, Storm 9500 Series, Un-Released models.
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Finally some more details on the highly anticipated BlackBerry Thunder or Storm 9530. As you may or may not know this will be RIM’s first touchscreen BlackBerry smartphone. Anyways it seems that Verizon will be using the BlackBerry Storm name and not Thunder as we saw before. This puppy will be packing a 8GB microSD card in box, 3.5mm headphone jack, Sim card slot for international roaming and NO Wi-Fi (sorry folks!).

Boy Genius seems to think that RIM will go with BlackBerry Storm for Verizon and other carriers such as Vodafone and Rogers may see it branded as the Thunder. So maybe we will see several models (9500, 9530, etc.). He also notes he thinks the Storm/Thunder is still on track for launch later this year…

[Engadget via BGR]

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Verizon to steal “Thunder” on October 13th?!?

By James on Aug 08, 2008 in BlackBerry, Featured News, Storm 9500 Series, USA, Verizon.

A BlackBerry Thunder pre-launch hype thread over at HowardForums is grabbing some more attention now. It seems that a tipster has posted a screenshot from Verizon’s inventory system showing the BlackBerry 9530 Global. The rumor is that Verizon will be launching RIM’s first touchscreen BlackBerry known as the Thunder or Storm we aren’t sure yet on October 13th.

The tipster says “Is VZW getting ready to ‘take the world by storm’ tm on October 13th?” Let’s hope so! What do you think it will be called BlackBerry Thunder or Storm?

See more of our BlackBerry Thunder/Storm Coverage, including the recent news of Telus in Canada getting an exclusive release on this bad boy.

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Telus to get EXCLUSIVE Canadian rights to BlackBerry Thunder

By James on Aug 07, 2008 in 8800 series, BlackBerry, Canada, Featured News, RIM, Rumors, Storm 9500 Series, Telus.

This is great news for Telus customers! The latest word is that Telus will be getting an exclusive on the highly anticpated touchscreen BlackBerry Thunder 9500. This means that Telus would join Verizon and Vodafone for a World Wide exclusive. Apparently the rumor has been confirmed by three separate sources, including one from the Globe and Mail stating “On the other hand, Telus is expected to launch (exclusively) a new touch screen BlackBerry this fall, which could steal some of the Bold’s Thunder, albeit temporarily.” in an article called “10 Reasons to Buy Rogers“.

It is expected that the Thunder will launch sometime in October (possibly Oct. 8th) on Verizon and hopefully Telus.

Check out all of our BlackBerry Thunder coverage, including our exclusive Pictures

[Source: CrackBerry]

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