Tag: "9500"

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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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Drool some more over the BlackBerry Thunder “Touch Screen BlackBerry”

By James on Jul 22, 2008 in BlackBerry, Breaking News, Exclusives, Featured News, Storm 9500 Series.
BlackBerry Thunder Camera
BlackBerry Thunder’s camera in Landscape mode

The weeks starting off a little quiet in BlackBerry news, but we will make you drool some more. Just in case you aren’t drooling enough over the rumored BlackBerry Thunder. We’ve got a hold of a few more OS shots for you to enjoy. I know these aren’t as good as live shots but hey at least you get to see what OS 4.7 will offer for multimedia. Meanwhile you can check out other BlackBerry Thunder topics or click read more to see the rest of the shots. Read More

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BlackBerry Bold in September and Thunder mid-October?

By James on Jul 16, 2008 in BlackBerry, Bold 9000 Series, Breaking News, Storm 9500 Series, USA, Un-Released models, Verizon.

More news is trickling down about the BlackBerry Bold and Thunder. Rumor has it the BlackBerry Bold might be running late on some networks. BGR heard from two sources that the Bold may be pushed back until September due to a few small software issues with roaming and seraching, etc. Next up is the highly anticipated BlackBerry Thunder for Verizon. RIM might be starting a huge marketing push for the Thunder come September with an official launch around mid-October. So let's hope they get a move on with both devices!! 

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Touchscreen BlackBerry Thunder to feature Haptic Technology

By James on Jul 09, 2008 in BlackBerry, Rumors, Storm 9500 Series.

To continue on with our BlackBerry Thunder coverage, Kevin from CrackBerry got some details on the Thunder's new touch screen keyboard. Apparently the Thunder will sport "Haptic Technology" meaning when the display is pressed the screen moves in a tiny bit to give you a real feedback feeling. Apparently every time the keyboard is pressed you will feel a buzz to let you know its been pressed.

One of the best parts is the Thunder will feature both SureType and a full QWERTY keyboard. So when the Thunder is upright it will use a SureType keyboard (think Pearl) and when its sideways a full QWERTY keyboard.

RIM has always known to come out with some of the best keyboard's for smartphones. Let's just hope they do the same for touchscreen smartphones. By the sounds of it they have something really cool in store. Click on over for some more details and a video of Haptic Technology… Read More

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BlackBerry Thunder Exclusive Shots (Meet the media player…)

By James on Jul 07, 2008 in BlackBerry, Breaking News, Exclusives, Storm 9500 Series.

That's right folks an anonymous tipster has sent us shots of the highly anticipated BlackBerry Thunder. The Thunder also known as BlackBerry 9500 will feature a huge 360×480 touch display and will apparently run on OS 4.7. This device will be a great multimedia player and could bring CDMA carriers true iPhone competition. The Thunder will run a carrier music store which similar to the iPhone's iTunes store and will allow users to purchase songs from their device. The display on the Thunder most likely will be a glass surface similar to the iPhone. Click on over for another shot…  Read More

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BlackBerry Thunder (9500) to run OS 4.7, not 5.0

By James on Jul 01, 2008 in BlackBerry, Rumors, Storm 9500 Series.

Jibi has been full of news this week. Today he has confirmed that the touchscreen BlackBerry we have all been calling Thunder will in fact be called Thunder and it will be modeled BlackBerry 9500. Not only that but apparently the BlackBerry Thunder will launch with OS 4.7 (not 5.0 like we all thought). Read More

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Visual Voicemail and BlackBerry Thunder coming to Verizon?

By James on Jun 18, 2008 in BlackBerry, Rumors, Storm 9500 Series, USA, Verizon.

According to reports, Verizon is getting ready to launch a visual voicemail service for their phones. Guess what one of the phones they have listed as supported devices at launch is? "New RIM device (touchscreen)". You know what this means? It's the BlackBerry Thunder. Apparently Verizon will be launching the visual voicemail service either sometime late July or early August. Does this mean the Thunder is right around the corner?

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“Unknown” BlackBerry smartphones found in XML files

By James on Jun 12, 2008 in BlackBerry, Pearl Flip 8200 Series, Rumors, Storm 9500 Series.

Details have emerged of upcoming BlackBerry devices. Some of these devices we talked about in the past, one new guy we haven't heard of yet. These code names were found in some device XML files…

Boy Genius caught wind of the BlackBerry Javelin which should be the 3G-less Bold (and part of the 9000 series). Next up is the BlackBerry Storm (aka Thunder) which will be the touch screen BlackBerr and RIM's next CDMA smartphone. Then of course the not so secret BlackBerry Kickstart, a flip phone BlackBerry expected to launch on T-Mobile later this year. Hmm then talk of a model called Seawolf 9110 which BG thinks is the GPS enabled Kickstart for AT&T. Last one he found is a model called Aurora which he feels is just a old prototype maybe even something from the Pearl 8100 series.

Ok so all and all that was BlackBerry Javelin, Storm/Thunder, Kickstart, Seawolf and Aurora. That's a ton of rumors. One thing you may want to notice if you look at the XML file pictured above for the BlackBerry Storm/Thunder it shows Keyboard Type=VIRTUAL booyeah!

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Touchscreen BlackBerry Thunder 9500 spotted?

By James on Jun 02, 2008 in BlackBerry, Rumors.


Take this one with a grain of salt. Engadget is showing a picture which looks like a cheesy photoshop mock up of supposedly the rumored touchscreen BlackBerry (Thunder 9500). The picture which was originally shown over at a company called Horizon Wireless. It's now being rumored that its not the actual unit itself but just a housing for the upcoming smartphone. 

So we aren't too sure what to think about this one. 

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