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Looks like there was a one week lag between the official announcement and the retail availibilty, but today is the day. Verizon is selling the Storm2 for 179.99 with a 2 year contract if you’re inlove with this device…or you can just wait for the Motorola Droid (official announcement in a few hours). Source: Verizon [...] Pocketnow has just posted a fairly good video comparaison of the BlackBerry Storm and Storm2. They’ve also posted a hardware tour of the Storm2: As I said earlier it looks like the devices is too little too late compared to phones like the HTC HD2 and Motorola Droid. Maybe RIM should stick to non-touchscreen devices… Source: Pocketnow Here’s a short hands-on video of the newly (and finally) announced BlackBerry Storm2 done by IntoMobile. The device definitely looks snappier than the original Storm: Source: Vimeo The CrackBerry junkies are the first to post a full blown review of RIM’s second touchscreen smrttphone, the Storm2 and frankly it doesn’t look that exciting to me. What I get after reading the review is that RIM fiannly fixed all the major bugs/problem of the original Storm (mainly the sluggyness of the software and [...] #gallery-1 { It’s now official, RIM’s second touchscreen smartphone is now partially out in the wild. Vodafone just announced that the BlackBerry Storm2 is up for pre-order. I’m personaly really intesrested in the new piezoelectric screen featured on the device, hopefully [...] The New York Times is featuring a article today about RIM’s future strategy. Several topics are disccused, among them is the release of the new BlackBerry Storm 2 touchscreen device: This week, Verizon and R.I.M. are trying again with a Storm do-over, the Storm 2. Among its many improvements, the new phone gives the user [...] Salomondrin just posted a 10minutes long hands-on video of BlackBerry’s soon to be announced (and launched on Verizon) touchscreen device, the Storm 2. He notes that the device he currently has in hand is probably the latest hardware revision (same for the firmware) and that all major bugs he encountered before seem to be fixed [...] Once again the BGR got the scoop on the BlackBerry Storm 2. This time a screenshot of Best Buy’s inventory system shows the Storm 2 (dummy units) arriving on October 25th. As they said “actual retail units start to come in a little bit before or a little bit after those dummy models hit“, so [...] Verizon is leaking like the Titanic lately. Here’s a little summary of today’s rumors : First PhoneArena got their hands on a picture highlighting the existence of an HTC Android phone called the HTC Desire (6200) coming to Verizon. The second leak comes from BlackBerryOS claims to have a Verizon internal document that says that [...] Here’s follow up to the previous BalckBerry Storm 2 hands-on video posted 2 weeks ago. This time Salomondrin did a Storm 1 vs Storm 2 video showing us the improved typing experience on the Storm 2 thanks to it’s new screen tech and also the upgraded ram on RIM’s new phone. Everything on the Storm [...] Piezoelectric tech, Surepress, one thing’s for sure, it’s getting confusing. Following yesterday’s Storm 2 video tour we thought that RIM’s upcoming touchscreen smartphone no longer used their SurePress technology. But we now have a teardown picture posted at BlackBerryCool showing use that the Storm 2 does have a SurePress screen, but instead of one big button [...] Once again the BGR boys got the hands on some exclusive carrier news. This time it is Verizon’s upcoming handsets’ release dates and prices. Here’s the full breakdown: - Samsung Rogue: Aug / $370 Here’s what looks like the best BlackBerry Storm 2 video so far. The highlight of the video is the how the new screen technology differs from the one on the previous Storm. this time RIM used piezoelectric tech which looks really amazing. RIM’s seems to be really involved in advancing touchscreen technology [...] After finally releasing the iPhone version earlier this week, TomTom execs confirmed that they are currently working on an Android version of the navigation application. According to Benoit Simery, Senior VP at TomTom who talked to pocket-Lint: “We cannot ignore such a successful platform as Android. HTC is an important partner of ours and Android is [...] Here’s another blurry video of RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry Storm 2 running firmware version 5.0.0161 which seems to support WiFi and be a bit faster that the previous roms we witnessed before. Source: CrackBerry Here’s a 7 minutes long hands-on of RIM’s latest & greatest, the Storm 2. Nothing really knew is shown unfortunately and the OS/Rom version seems to be quite old. Anyway check it out to see how the new SurePress screen works and how the hardware looks like compared to the Onyx & Tour : New pictures of RIM’s Storm 2 have been leaked today. Unlike the original Storm the new one has WiFi support as seen in one of the pics below. Design is in line with it’s predecessor, the only notable change we can see is the 4 buttons which have been replaced 4 capacitive controls. #gallery-3 { |
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