Another week, Another BlackBerry Storm video. This time some lucky person got a change to sit down with a Verizon branded BlackBerry Storm 9530 and do everything to it. The video shows how to take out the battery and use the phone. It’s just another video in the BlackBerry Storm collection. The good news is Verizon customers only have to wait a few more days before they get their hands on one of these bad boys! Enjoy.
[via CrackBerry]
Verizon has officially announced the BlackBerry Storm will be available starting November 21st at all corporate and retail channels. The Storm will be priced at $199 with two year contract. Rumor has it Verizon has a mass amount of stock ready to go around.
Now that Verizon has announced the launch of their Storm. Bell and TELUS in Canada can’t be too far behind either…
The Boy Genius has got his hands on a slide from Verizon Wireless. It shows that the BlackBerry Storm 9530 will start launching November 20th for high-value clients then followed by availability for the general public on November 24th. Storm’s will be available in 123 Coporate Verizon stores with apparently a ton on hand.
Pricing still hasn’t been announced, however its expected to be around $199 with two year contract.
Verizon has a test site known as “testman” which previews different parts of the website before its officially updated online. Well if you take a peak over at the site it seems that they have put the BlackBerry Storm on the site and have all the pricing ready.
Here is a breakdown of what the prices are currently showing on the VZW site. One thing we should note is that even though it says BlackBerry 9530 World Edition at the top the description does talk about the 8830 World Edition and if you look at the pricing for the 8830 its exactly the same.
$219.99 with two year contract
$289.99 with one year contract
$519.99 with no contract / month to month
So this is looking good for a release very very soon. Stay tuned for an official announcement from Big Red aka Verizon soon.
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(picture coursty of KJB_Ninja from HowardForums)
Previously we reported that TELUS would be launching the BlackBerry Storm on November 17th. However that there may be a possibility of delay. Well more tips have arrived stating that RIM has delayed the launch of the BlackBerry Storm for TELUS until early December. Apparently TELUS will still be the first to launch the Storm in Canada.
The latest rumored release dates include anywhere between December 4 to 8th. Its a small delay but at least we will see it for Christmas. Stay tuned if we get more details…
Big thanks to all the TELUS ninjas who reported this!
We’ve received a very solid tip that TELUS’ release date for the BlackBerry Storm 9530 is set for November 17th (unless RIM pushes it back). If this is right TELUS would have a five day exclusive over Bell here in Canada. The tipster also is reporting that TELUS will charge users .50 cents per stream of Youtube clips, however if the client has certain data packages with web browsing (not known which ones at this time) then Youtube streaming will be included. Last but not least TELUS will be introducing both Red and Blue BlackBerry Pearl 8130’s early next month.
UPDATE: The tipster has sent in a few more details… Below is a picture of the two new colored Pearl 8130’s. Apparently the Storm is expected for November 17th, however RIM may still be working on software patches. Unfortunately no more details are available as of now. I guess we will have to play the waiting game…
Stay tuned for more details…
Here it is folks! The TELUS BlackBerry Storm media kit. Earlier today TELUS updated their promo page at telusmobility.com/storm to add some new media images and a 360 degree video which you can see below. Basically no official release dates or pricing are announced just yet. Simply just some new views of a TELUS branded Storm 9530.
It seems a training schedule for Verizon has been leaked on to the internet. Two of the modules shown include the BlackBerry Storm 9530 and HTC Diamond. If you notice all Storm training must be completed by November 2nd and the Diamond not until December 3rd. This could mean that the Early November release date we have all heard about is true…
Stay tuned!
[Engadget]
YES! It’s finally online. After a very long wait (well not really..) Verizon has put the BlackBerry Storm 9530 coming soon page online. You can register to be notified when the Storm is available for purchase. Unfortunately no pricing or launch dates are listed on the page. Let’s all still pray for a November 1st launch. We’re also still waiting for official news from RIM about the device as well.
UPDATE: It looks like Verizon has taken down the page. Maybe RIM wants Verizon to wait until they officially announce it? Stay tuned for updates.
UPDATE 2: Here is a higher quaility version of the internal video released by Verizon. See it here.
Head on over to VerizonWireless.com/Storm for more details >>
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.
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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