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BlackBerry Storm 9550 Caught in Action Yet Again - This Time It Shows Off WiFi!

by Kevin Michaluk on 18 Aug 2009 05:43 PM
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We just received an email on the good 'ole CrackBerry tips line pointing us to a video on youtube posted by user iluvblackberry. Much to my surprise, the video contains what was said by the anonymous tipster to be a BlackBerry Storm 9550 running OS 5.0.0.161, which is actually a newer version of firmware than was featured in both my hands-on Storm 9550 video and salomondrin's recent review as well. Even more surprising to me was the appearance of the CrackBerry.com sticker in the video - we gave out a couple thousand of these back at WES in Orlando this May... i guess iluvblackberry must also luvcrackberry!

The video is a bit blurry and the device is still running early firmware (we know there are already newer versions than .161 compiled), but Storm 2 chasers will want to take in every second of the 7 minute vid. BIG news here is that this storm 9550 actually shows off WiFi! Finally!!! As much as we've seen of the Storm 2 already, I can't help but think there is still more to the device (particularly that display) than initially meets the eye. I have as educated guess as to the tech behind the display (the whole it's fixed when off and clickable when powered on thinking) and am thinking/hoping there is still some additional potential there that future OS builds may tap into. As its release draws nearer it'll be fun to watch all of the leaked and official details unfold. As always, you'll want to keep it locked to CrackBerry for all of the goods as they emerge.

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Posted by Griffspen Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

NICE!!

 
 
Posted by JRSCCivic98 Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

Someone please do me a favor and stop sending these units to lame people who don't know how to use auto-focus (turn some ambient light on you IDIOT!!!) and make lame vidoes that show the phone is the worse possible scenarios. At least learn to use the interface before you show something off. People are already being put off by this video... and the moron who made it!

 
 
Posted by CrackBurglar Wednesday, Aug 19, 2009 903 days ago

Thanks Civic for saying what needs to be said!

Further, did you see the transition lag? How many times did the guy turn the device and wait over 5 seconds then give up and switch it back?

Someone send ME a Storm 2 and I'll make a REAL video!

 
 
Posted by mariska Wednesday, Aug 19, 2009 903 days ago

I couldn't make it past 15 seconds of this video. Painful for my eyes and ears.

 
 
Posted by ddarvish Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

still not impressed... same as original storm. Unless you have transparent fingers you still cant see what the hell you are actually clicking when you are typing... browser still sucks, and well OS 5.0 still hasn't allowed multiple channels of audio and the storm needs much larger app memory!

 
 
Posted by skyys Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

Do you look at every key before you press it when you are typing on a keyboard? Now apply that concept to the storm. Not that hard huh?

 
 
Posted by kinggeoff Wednesday, Aug 19, 2009 903 days ago

you have to see what key is under your thumb before you type it? wow

 
 
Posted by Japultra Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

This video is quite a headache to watch! Everything is blurry and it can definitely do without that music in the background.

 
 
Posted by aperture_disaster Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

hard to watch.

 
 
Posted by GargoyleDC Wednesday, Aug 19, 2009 903 days ago

Definitely the music is a pain the in a$$. I stopped watching the video.

 
 
Posted by cnc7 Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

yea video is blurry, and the music wow.. , bur the he seemed to still be having trouble with the screen rotation

 
 
Posted by noregrets721 Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

Was the person holding alt while pressing another key during the typing sequence? That would mean the screen is segmented somehow right? Would definitely open up multitude of possibilities touch wise.

 
 
Posted by Neotide87 Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

If you look a little closer he is releasing the symbol button right before he clicks the other button. It would be cool tho to be able to hold one button down and click another

 
 
Posted by j2773 Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

or did the accelerometer seem to me even less responsive than the 4.7.0.65 build on the original Storm? I'm not sure I've seen enough between this video and others to pay a premium to get a new device on Verizon.

 
 
Posted by cokeberry005 Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

yah, this seemed like a step down from salo's odin. that phone looked sweet. but, i honestly did not get what was going on in that video with that music and blurriness and multiple opening and closing apps. i dont get it, but it just might be me.

 
 
Posted by crackberryn00b Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

I notice the sluggishness in most videos when people are holding the phone flat and pointing the camera down at the phone.

Hold your phone parrallel to the floor and turn it. It doesn't respond. You notice that the phone responds as soon as he tilts it so that it isn't laying flat. Watch some of the videos where Kevin is using the phone and taping it and it's the same thing. I don't think its the accelerometer. It seems about equal to the one that we have now when they hold it at the correct angle. They just have trouble doing it and keeping the camera on the phone.

 
 
Posted by the one and only M Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

where can i get a crackberry sticker?

 
 
Posted by aperture_disaster Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

my battery door would be proud to wear one!

 
 
Posted by ediggity Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

He's typin pretty fast on it. Never used a 9530 on the regular, and not sure if it's new, but I like how he was holding the shift key and still pressing buttons to capitalize letters.

 
 
Posted by noregrets721 Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

Can not hold and type on current 9530.

 
 
Posted by kinggeoff Wednesday, Aug 19, 2009 903 days ago

on the storm if you hold down a key it capitalizes that key anyway (same with alt-lock and shift-lock)

 
 
Posted by Erkenntnis Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

But it looks pretty neat.

I'm not getting the whole "I can't see what I'm typing" sentiment. By that logic you shouldn't like the regular BB keyboards either, and yet those are treated as the default option.

 
 
Posted by Dem1K Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

Some people just can't seem to get a clue. And yes I saw the extended use of multi-touch :D

 
 
Posted by HotCelica Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

I hope I am not the only one that is seeing that obviously RIM has implemented Multitouch more on the Storm 2.

 
 
Posted by Dave12308 Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

It's a software thing, not hardware. The original Storm is fully capable of being a full multi-touch device.

 
 
Posted by jbdale Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

Yawn

As thought nothing to see here.

 
 
Posted by KBV1 Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

Looks pretty good. The screen tilting is still glitchy,grr. Why record a video in the dark. You could hardly see anything.

 
 
Posted by Erkenntnis Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

to me, suggests shaking hands. My iTouch often doesn't rotate if my hands are shaking; it needs to be kept pretty still for the accelerometer to kick in.

My guess is that his hand motions were throwing off the accelerometer. (I hope so, anyway.)

 
 
Posted by Neotide87 Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

He was prolly recording the storm video from his iPhone!!

 
 
Posted by Detective M Downs Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

I love the rockers playing in background...

 
 
Posted by crackberryhead Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

Where can I get the AWESOME song?

 
 
Posted by kjdoug Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

Blurry...slow accelerometer and boring. It seems this OS runs slower than 5.0.0.140 does on my Storm 1.

 
 
Posted by ahaz86 Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

This guy is using a camera from like 1990 and needs to turn down the brightness from 100% ...

 
 
Posted by tattoohead Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

I wish they would give it an on screen keyboard like LG / Apple / etc where you hover over and the letter gets bigger. Would improve things much.

 
 
Posted by kinggeoff Wednesday, Aug 19, 2009 903 days ago

they call it key ghosting

you can probably find more about it in the storm os forums

 
 
Posted by wademac Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

Okay what's with the velvet-lined Crackberry pouch he pulls the phone out of at the beginning?....not to mention the techno-Rastafarian music....

Oh and to repeat again....FOCUS!!

these videos are getting stranger as they go along....

 
 
Posted by kennydillon Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

I knew the new one was going to have WIFI. It will be nice. Too bad I am stuck unitll Jan of 2011 in my contract. :(

 
 
Posted by SilverLight98 Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

the phones browser is still painfully slow on wifi.... maybe I don't need it after all. The accelerometer was terrible also. My storm 1 is faster. And I can also type faster too lol

 
 
Posted by Audizine Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

that video quality was just WOW!!!
it gave me a headache!! i stopped watching in less than a minute

 
 
Posted by speedyV Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

Something just doesn't seem right about this video.

Watched other storm 2 videos where stuff was instant, I don't know it seems odd to me. But that's just me

and YES that gave me a massive headache

 
 
Posted by esalonia Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

Nice to see the wifi logo, but I cant make out anything in this video.

 
 
Posted by Nikkgmm Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

Learned my lesson on the first storm.

 
 
Posted by s2thomp1 Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

BRAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!! fi di chune dem & d 9550

 
 
Posted by jason821 Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

looks as crappy as the storm 1

 
 
Posted by DreamSTi Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

Between the horrible music in the back round and the blurriness, this has to be one of the worst video's I have ever seen.

 
 
Posted by JReel Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

closed the window about 10 seconds into the video because of the music, nice!

 
 
Posted by Mr.Miagi Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

the guy making this vid either didnt care or is special. Only good thing is that it showed proof of wifi. Disappointing to see a guy get a pre released device and doesnt know how the accelerometer works

 
 
Posted by deathberry Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

could not make it half way through this video. two thumbs down from me.

 
 
Posted by TannerSDTwink Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

HONESTLY, What A Crappy Song And Why Film This In The Dark? This Person Can't Make A Decent Video That Show's Off The S2? Geez, It Was Painful To Hear And Watch.

 
 
Posted by TheSultan Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 904 days ago

I appreciate the effort but I got through about 15 seconds of this. Did it have to be shot in a dark room??

 
 
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