BlackBerry Thunder, the touchscreen BlackBerry we’ve all been waiting for
Since we were the first ones to break the news about a touchscreen BlackBerry device, it’s only fitting that we follow up and give y’all the real lowdown on it! This is going to excite a lot of people, but anger many. Are you ready? The BlackBerry Thunder, as it is codenamed now, (all you "reporting" on it as the Storm are incorrect) will launch in Q3 of this year. It is a full touchscreen BlackBerry — no slide out keyboard — with only 4 physical keys. Those are the send / end phone keys, the BlackBerry menu key, and the back key. Here is the most interesting part, though: it will launch as a worldwide lifetime exclusive on Verizon and Vodafone! We’ve heard the unit will be a hybrid device with CDMA EV-DO Rev. C (for clarification, Rev C., known as UMB is practically dead. If the device will indeed launch with a 4G solution, our bet is on LTE), and GSM HSPA for traveling internationally. Verizon and Vodafone will have the same unit. Currently, the model number is the BlackBerry 9500, though it’s very early and that’s likely to change. This is HUGE for the Verizon lovers. For once they’ll get an exclusive device, but Verizon will have a sales quota for the device and if they don’t meet those numbers, we’ve heard the exclusivity will then dissolve and it’s over. This will be extremely interesting to see play out.
P.S. No, you morons, the image above is not real. Didn’t we go through this once before?
P.P.S. For futher clarification about the whole LTE thing, the chip might support it, but that does not mean the network will be ready by any means…OK?
And just for the sake of it. Yes, it is called the Blackberry Storm – in Canada.
I can’t wait for my Blackberry Storm to arrive in a few days. VW is the best. Believe me I’ve been with Sprint, ATT, and T-mobile and VW has the best support and connection everytime (even my friends who are non VW subscribers tell me they don’t like their service and want to or will switch to VW). I’ve been with VW for four years now and will never switch.
What a snide jackass you are. It is STORM! chastising others for “reporting” it as a storm? idiot.
In retrospect, don’t you feel like a fool for saying ” (all you “reporting” on it as the Storm are incorrect)”
lol so true. i just bought this phone. verizon sucks. but its the best phone i want on verizon
So is there a blackberry storm and thunder? They’ve already advertised it as the storm in some places…
there is no such thing ans
this phone and how do i know
you ask cause i have the storm
and this fake thing looks almost
the same except the storm
is more shaped like a rectangle
and this so called “thunder” is
shaped like a circle more less.
Yes, I think it’s quite hilarious that it actually is called the Storm AND for all those who goffed at the thought that it would make it out before 2009 seem to be sorely disappointed!
No offense to the boy genius, but sounds to me like he’s just made a lot of guesses and tried to sound “in the know” but clearly doesn’t really know anything more than the rest of us!
am i the only one not at all interested? im gonna stick with my samsung omnia
and i LOVE vzw….so there
it was the Storm, who’s the moron now?
how much are they
haha what fucking morons, I’ll never respect anything this site ever publishes.
The little piece of fruit a blackberry or an apple hmmmm…. you tell me lol
“Thunder, as it is codenamed now, (all you “reporting” on it as the Storm are incorrect) will launch in Q3 of this year.”
Can you say dumb a**
IT IS THE BLACKLBERRY Drum roll please
STORM!
LOL, So much for you saying its not a blackberry storm! Looks like there will be no BLACKBERRY THUNDER!
i like telefono is beutiful and 9900 is the big blackberry
“”The BlackBerry Thunder, as it is codenamed now, (all you “reporting” on it as the Storm are incorrect)”"
how does your foot taste? you pompous____.
OMG!!!! this is the most beautiful cell phone EVER! i am getting one for my b day and i hope it well do very good for me and wont break!!!!!
LOL. “All those reporting it as the Storm are incorrect.”
I bet you feel like the biggest jerkoff. Insert foot in mouth.
A 4G phone i can not wait.
i have the storm, its been great so far..i like the bold as well, but neverhad an At&t contract. I have been verizon for over 10 years strong! They never let me down, and have the best service hands down! I like the way this new blackberry looks, and I believe blackberry will surpass the iphones soon, if they haven’t already…stick to computers Apple..
haha, :those of you ‘reporting’ on it as the Storm are incorrect” lol
I would have expected better from boygenius
The Storm pales in comparison to the Iphone, sorry. I have a BB in a BES environment. Bosses got Storms and are ready to throw them out the window. Touch screen sucks having to push the screen down. If you live anywhere that has yellow pollen from pine trees in the spring, be prepared. Since the touch screen has room to go up and down and is not sealed, all of the pollen gets under the screen and you cannot clean it. My boss is losing more visibilty each day and the other went back to the 8830.
My wife has an Iphone and we tested browsing and response times, typing emails, using the messaging. It is almost unfair how much better the iphone performs.
I have an 8830 and will never go to the storm unless thy get rid of the “touch” screen that you have to “push”.
This is (still) the first listing that comes up in a google search for “new blackberry for Verizon”
Incidentally, Boy Genius, this phone ended up being named the Storm. Perhaps you shouldn’t be so hasty to knock your fellow “reporters.”
Verizon Sucks thats why they need the lifetime contract with RIM for the storm ATT took alot of users with the lanch of the iphone from verizon.