on 28 Sep 2008 01:15 PM
The BlackBerry Storm coverage keeps pouring in. Following up on Kevin Byrne's screen captures, LordObento just posted these marketing shots of the Verizon BlackBerry Storm in the CrackBerry forums! Check out another image after the jump. Getting excited???
good stuff the sleepless work even on weekends :)
... more and more every time I see new pics. I hope the Verizon logo stays on the back, and doesn't make it's way to the front of the phone.
LOVE IT!
I like the shiny look of the outside I want this phone already. Im due for an upgrade!
... like we'll be using a charging cradle with this bad boy. The battery cover seems to show a slip button for the cover release with no charging terminals. IMHO, "LAME" :||
That doesn't mean it won't have a charging cradle. It's just now rather than having contact points, the cradle will have a USB plug.
The device will dock in landscape using the microUSB port.
Each picture makes it harder and harder to wait for this phone. I'm probably gonna smash my 8830 so I can get this, hahaha.
ahahahah i did the same to my 8320 to get a bold ahahahaha
SOADFreak9189, I have to agree with you 100%.
I mean it makes the 8830 look like a POS
I hope the phone does have a flash. I take a lot of pictures with my phone and it would suck for me if it didnt have a flash. In other articles I have read about the phone it says it didn't have a flash. Also its interesting it has an icon for SMS and another for messages?
Well, this picture clearly shows a flash. Also, if you read the Verizon PPT, it lists a flash as well.
it definitely has a flash.
What do you mean? You can ALWAYS have an icon for SMS and another for messages. Go to messages- options-General options-SMS and Email Inboxes Separate.
So, all in all, I'm very excited for this phone. One of the MAJOY concerns I have is this: How the touch screen is. Not responce or size or gestures but how it's actually assembled into the phone. Will it be like the iPhone where it's a piece of glass that's flush against the body of the phone? Or like the Dare how it's plastic with the screen recessed a tiny bit under the body of the phone? Or, god forbid, like the PPC-6800 where the screen is mushy and there is a bevel because the screen is so sunk into the phone?
I'm really curious about this, and I think it will be somewhat of a deal breaker for me, as I'm sure others.
MAJOR* whoops.
Please Bell!!!! GET THIS PHONE ON LOCKDOWN!!!
Telus all the way.....
its all telus'
hahah SORRRRRRRRRRY
Now that I look at it, it seems a little sunk. Damn.
Gee whiz, why dont you just nick pick the crap out of the thing. I mean the device hasn't even been released yet, and you are picking the thing apart piece by piece. Why don't you just wait like everyone else and see for yourself when the device comes out. Patience my friend, PATIENCE!! Let RIM do their job, you know they will get it right. Look at their past products for example. They have all been flawless up to this point. That should be good enough, I know it is for me!!
"Let RIM do their job, you know they will get it right. Look at their past products for example. They have all been flawless up to this point."
Uh, not quite.
I upgraded my phone back in July, and I got the BlackBerry Pearl. So did a friend of mine. As far as the phone itself, I liked it, and liked the stuff it would do. However, there was a software problem with the phone, where it would randomly start deleting all my messages and call lists, even though I had the settings on the phone to save them FOREVER. My friend called Verizon's tech support, and they told her that we could download a software update, but that wasn't guaranteed to fix it, and that they had been having a LOT of problems with the Pearls. He advised her that the best thing we could do would be return the Pearls and get another device entirely. I did, she wasn't able to because she had already cut the proof-of-purchase off her box to mail in her rebate.
That doesn't sound flawless to me.
I work at Verizon wireless and to this day we still have customers coming in telling us that there is something wrong with their blackberry because after a while it will start deleting their messages, call logs, and such. I blame this problem on RIM for not educating employees that sell their products about this blackberry behavior. This problem is seen mostly with the pearls due to the small amount of internal memory. One way to remedy this problem once and for all is to get a memory card. Yes, that's it! What the blackberry was doing prior to the memory card is normal. The phone will start deleting things to keep itself running.
Like every PDA, blackberries will eventually slow down, but it is the only pda that will delete things on its own so that it doesn't get bogged down and starve itself of free memory.
Tips on maintaining Blackberry memory:
1. Delete cookies, cashes, and history, from the web browser.
2. Go to Options>Security Options> Memory Cleaning:
Enable the cleaning and set the blackberry clean up the memory automatically or you can just hit the menu button to clear everything at once. This will clean out the clipboard,caches, and other things.
3. Clear out the Blackberry log: while holding down the alt key hit the letters LGLG. hit the menu key for the option of clearing out the log.
4. Do a battery pull once in a while to clear out the blackberry accumulated temp logs/files. * Download "SoftReset". A program that resets your phone with out having to pull out your battery.
5. Buy memory card, install it, and set it as a default to have the pictures you take stored to the memory card. You may notice now you will be able to take videos once you do this.
Hope this helps
When my phone was deleting my messages and call lists - DAILY - I HAD a 1GB memory card in it, with everything defaulted to save to the memory card. I had a microSD card from my previous phone and reformatted it for the blackberry the day I got the Pearl. And the phone still did that. I was having to remove the battery at LEAST once a day.
I ended up returning the blackberry and getting the LG Chocolate 3, which I have had absolutely no problems with - yet - and hopefully won't. I had the LG VX8300 prior to my upgrade, and was very happy with it the two years I had it. I think I'll stick with LG's.
Wow wow wow !!...The photos just keep getting better by the day :) I like the shiny look to it. As Kevin siad on the last podcast it does look very much like the Javelin shell, the back certainly does, so if its that size this will be a real winner :)
not feeling this..its like the iPhone! I need my QWERTY keyboard.
I wasn't nit-picking it, it was just curious.
Since the screen (as on any all touch device) is the most important part, I was just stressing that it will take a pivotal role as to weather most people will be like it or not. Personally, I know this phone is going to ******* rock!
And I'll agree with you that RIM is an incredible company and has always made great phones. I've had two blackberry's so far and have tried Palm and WM devices and I've had little to no problems with both of the BB's. (As for the others, I'm not even going to begin)
I'm super stoked about this. Also, since I'm a employee of Vzw, I'll get to play with it first, so I'll let you know how it is once we get it in inventory. :P
Also, does anyone know what all this 'click-touchscreen' business is all about?
Sorry about all the typos and grammatical errors. Writing this between customers, I lose track of my thoughts.
the back plate looks really out of place
Any word on how much the phone will cost???
Wow
What's with the May date on the screen?
I really want to see what kind of cool themes are going to come out on this beast
Have "patience" some of you ignoramuses say. Rest assured that "RIM will get it right."
WRONG!!!
Coming more than a year too late, the Storm with its mushy-mushy, clicky-weird screen is no iPhone killer.
Instead, it signals the death of RIM's leadership position in the smartphone market.
Yes, the already converted——either current BB fanboys and/or current Verizon customers——will try it out. But it will not take market share away from the iPhone.
Instead, it will only broaden the explosive appeal of the iPhone worldwide once the iPhone come to ALL carriers in 2010, including Verizon.
Then watch Verizon do to the Storm what ATT is doing to the Bold —— kicking it to second- or third-banana status as it coronates the Verizon iPhone.
Wake up, people!
Analysts at Deutsche Bank and RBC have both DOWNGRADED their ratings on RIM after playing with the Storm. Even at $70, they say the stock seems likely to decline even LOWER yet.
That's even LESS money for RIM to use to "get it right" in its constant delays and batched rollouts while we continue to get our "patience" tests and the iPhone gains market share not only in the consumer segments but enterprise——RIM's core.
As one analyst notes: "RIM finds itself in a heavily-hyped product transition, and has already failed to meet self-imposed deadlines for its new products. Moreover, this is an especially inauspicious moment to effect the transition" against the likes of Apple.
As for the iPHone: "With zero debt, Apple will be able to capture market share in a way that would be fundamentally impossible for other companies of lesser means."
RIM, which just saw $15B —— billion! — disappear this past week, is one of those companies of "lesser means" gambling big on unproven new products in consumer markets it doesn't dominate like enterprise.
Watch RIM slip below $50 by next spring.
For anyone who paid attention to the RIM stock drop, it was because of earnings issues and NOTHING to do with this phone at all. go back to your iphone little boy, you obviously have BB Envy haha.
So I assume then, that you've actually felt this "mushy-mushy" screen? I mean, you must have since you know exactly what it feels like and how it works. I can't imagine anyone making a statement without firsthand knowledge of the subject, and only going by speculation and rumor. That would just be silly. So I know you have your facts straight and there is no bias or opinion in your statement at all. Thank you for your insightful look into the downfall of the Storm, that you clearly have so much experience with.
...Epic fail.
...P.S...
I'll tell you what. When I get the phone, I'll type something out on the screen just to test it and see how it is. Then I'll Copy and Paste it into a text message and send it to you. Then I'll take a video, and a picture with the 3.2 MP camera, and I'll MMS it to your iPhone. Then you can figure out how to get the annoyingly hard to remember ID and password onto the viewmymessage.com website.
Actually..I'll make it easier on you. I'll just go to CVS, take out my removable memory card, and just print the pictures over there. That way I can just mail you the pics instead and save you the trouble...
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/research-motion-sinks-disappointing-forecast/story.aspx?guid={7C0EE990-84F3-4E65-9BAA-5B07880B3126}&dist=msr_32
Here is the article about Deutsche Bank and RBC..... NOTICE it says nothing about analysts playing with the Storm and downgrading the stock because of that. Stop making stuff up just because you don't like a phone or phone manufacturer.
I comment with hard data —— market valuation slides, RIM's own projections, the company's continued deadline misses, and murky prospects about new phones —— and the response is typical iPhone hating invective.
For the record, as those who know me on these boards, I'm a BlackBerry fan and Bold one, in particular.
I HAVE, however, played with the screen being used on the Storm, and all your ignorant vitriol doesn't help the BlackBerry cause.
Neither does the Storm, which was my point, backed by facts —— not screenshots, spec sheets and iPhone hatred.
That's OK. I've heard you people before. Back when RIM was at $148 and I predicted the massive slide after playing with the Storm screen as it came to be——but not, in full disclosure here, the final assembled handset. I just know the mush-click-mush feel and don't think people will like it.
Neither do the analysts and others who have actually played with the full handset device. It's the STORM that's the toy, guys, not the iPhone. The only BlackBerry that anywbody including RIM execs take seriously in RIM's core enterprise market is the Bold and, to a lesser degree, the Javelin curve.
The Storm and Pearl Flip are toys in the minds of RIM's own execs, fodder for the masses who are beguiled by the iPhone. Yet you people here act like the Storm is some iPhone killer and dump crap on a true BlackBerry fan for emphasizing the obvious.
Which is this, and what I've been saying:
RIM got cute with iffy offerings this fall, not one of which delivers the "ultimate BlackBerry experience" we all want, and instead split key features among difference devices: a decent camera here, a mediocre one there; 3G here, none there; WiFi with this one, none with that one, etc.
All the while, RIM had the technology and the money——much of it since wiped out in its stock selloff——to deliver a true iPhone killer.
But, oops, they missed, counting on fanboys here to genuflect before anything BlackBerry and spit on anything iPhone.
You get what you ask for.
I think it's time we asked for a helluva lot more from RIM, starting with the respect to offer the device the company is capable of offering in a timely manner while there's still a company with at least some capitalization to do it.
RIM at less than $50 next Spring after the new phones whiff. Count on it. Mark my words. Scream and insult me all you want. I've heard it all before.
But I've been right EVERY call I've made in recent months.
The numbers don't lie.
If you really want to raise a stink, why don't you watch very closely to see which RIM execs are dumping their company shares.
Maybe they know something down the pike that you don't.
still talking that bull shit, i see you still need to shove that apple up your ass. Maybe you should try 2 or 3, because how that iphone raped you... im sure they'll fit
all that's just BULL SHIT...
why don't you go shove that apple up your ass!!!
Mods please delete all of David R.'s comments. He's clearly not a phone fanboy but rather some sort of analyst/broker who is trying manipulate RIM's stock price. Thank you.
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