Free BlackBerry Storm, aka Thunder
BlackBerry 9500 aka Thunder aka Storm aka Apple Killer now has face.
Boy Genius posted a “Live Shot” of BlackBerry 9500 aka Thunder. Picture shows phone layout. RIM phones known for good, hardware keyboard, so it’s going to be interesting to see what OS keyboard will be feature on this phone, it’s clear that it’s going to be a touchscreen. Touchscreen keyboard can kill or make the phone. Interesting fact, it has pause button on the top, so their headphones won’t be as good as Apple’s :) It’s clear that it will be exclusively from Verizon. BoyGeniusReport
And, The BlackBerry Storm, Oops, THUNDER Goes To Verizon!
Do you remember that Apple Killer by RIM? So, as Boy Genius says, this new touchscreen phone will go out with Verizon. So to you all who love Verizon, and already have contracts with it, and want an Apple iPhone, but don’t want to be AT&T and in a crowd with 100 million iPhone owners of 2008, you may wait for, hmm… for August, to get your BlackBerry Thunder! Yeah, smoking hot phone by RIM, it’s gonna kick iPhone in the nuts. Well that’s a pretty smooth move of RIM. They are betting on getting sales from guys not who like their phones, but the carrier. Because if there would be choice of iPhone and BlackBerry, phones with slightly the same features, iPhone would win. I think it’s not because iPhone will be cheaper, it’s something esle, like, brand? :) I don’t know let’s wait for the keynote from Steve Jobs on 9th of June.
BlackBerry 9000 announce date revealed!
If you always wanted this phone to lay on your table like that, then it will be interesting for you to know that it will be announced on May 12th, this year! :) It will happen on the first day of WES 2008 in Orlando, Florida. You will be able to test the phone in special booths dedicated! This is going to be great announcment, well this phone was reviewed only by one man, and with old software, anyways everybody believes that this is an amazing phone, can’t wait to see May 12th!
BlackBerry 9000 reviewed by Crackberry, for $828
While this phone is not yet available, and won’t be until July of this year, guys at Blackberry fan site Crankberry have already reviewed it, because they got it on eBay for $828. Buyer is really amazed and surprised with this phone, especially about the fact that it has 3G. Software is almost the same as previous Blackberry’s, but it mich be updated, there is long way until official release of the phone.
RIM is Trying to Reach New Market, Flip Phone. Blackberry KickStart
This is the fresh photos of a new Blackberry, KickStart. It has a T-Mobile branding on it, which says alot, like it’s going to be avaliable with T-Mobile only at the start :) I guess RIM is just trying to reach a market of “Flip phone lovers”, and it seems to be it’s very smooth move, figuring out that a lot of people with their old Motorola RAZRs may consider buying a new phone, why not smartphone? Well here are rumored spects:
- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
- “Next Gen” SureType keyboard
- 2 Megapixel camera
- 16-bit color LCDs
- Internal LCD is 240×320, external one is 160×128
- Wi-Fi b,g
- 3.5mm headset jack
- OS is 4.6
Well this phone is still “Rumor-based” but it’s release smells like September, well lets wait and see is it going to Kick-Start :)
More photos and better story on BGR
iPhone killer comes, beware Apple!
Blackberry 9000? Promised to come this May, this phone should play a big role for the R.I.M. because since the iPhone their sales have fallen down, plus iPhone is going enterprise - which R.I.M. can’t afford to happen, today’s most “enterprise friendly” phones are Blackberrys.
It’s not going to be a touchscreen as it seems, because R.I.M.’s CEO Mike Lazaridis says:
“It’s hard to type on a piece of glass.”
To me it sounds like:
“It’s hard to type on a piece of shit.”
And you know why? Because Apple is getting a big creamy piece of their pie now, Sad R.I.M., R.I.M. not happy! Here is smartphone sales chart: 
Awaited spects are a little better than the iPhone’s, but basically. So let’s wait for it.
P.S. Here is an interesting quote from recent NYT article:
Two independent developers writing software for coming R.I.M. devices say that a touch-screen BlackBerry is in the works, and that R.I.M. engineers privately refer to it as the A.K. — for “Apple Killer.”
P.P.S. Where is Android?