Comments on: BlackBerry Thunder Available For Pre-order?

By: Anon Amos

Anon Amos — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:31:23 +0000

hmm “WiFi”??? On a storm?

By: sidekick addict

sidekick addict — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:57:14 +0000

this is cute ….

By: Jeff B.

Jeff B. — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:47:10 +0000

Can you say…”move aside Bold, this is what I’m waiting for”…can ya?

By: GIAN R

GIAN R — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:54:48 +0000

VERIZON and VODAFONE will have lifetime exclusivity on the Thunder….as long as they meet there sales quota set by RIM themselves.

I foresee AT&T’s mothership of a Carrier possibly getting an updated model of the Thunder…which in our case will be

1. A bummer for waiting so long for the thunder.
2. Still a bummer.
3. After Verizons monkey test run, well get a much better model.
4. look over our shoulders, smile and grin at the ifan boys and tell them, we TOLD YA SO!

Then againg, the chances of other carriers in the states are slim. GSM for voadafone EUROPE. US FREQUENCYS?

I spoke with an inside person to Verizon. He pointed out that Verizon DOES NOT SELL PHONES WITHOUT BEING ATTACHED TO A LINE (verizon line that is). It just doesnt happen, you cannot leave a store with a phone without it being scanned and attached to your line, and the system gives your phone service via its ESN #.

So does that mean so much for buying it and unlocking it? He goes on further to explain, that I will really need to know someone in the company to get ahold of one because of verzions auto something on locking out phones that dont register ESN’s or something like that attached to the account. I dunno but it made it seem really impossible to buy one and unlock it.

Know that you need to know someone, not just anyone…and pay them…pay them real good to loose “oops” a thunder for ya.

By: ak

ak — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:12:08 +0000

i played with it the other day at work . next door works at RIM and brang it in. makes the iphone look like a piece of toy. Blazing fast internet speeds it kills the iPhone. the thunder indeed has a camera and Wi-fi , the keyboard and everything is soo nicely built. way more easier and better than iphone.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:20:04 +0000

Four months, seriously? RIM is dropping the ball for sure. This is the second iteration of the iPhone and they still don’t have a competitor.

By: Markis

Markis — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:51:26 +0000

For the last time, sprint is not and will probably NEVER receive this device, they can’t even retain customers, and its been mentioned time and time again, that it will have GSM / CDMA hybrid capabilites!

By: Setthemstraight

Setthemstraight — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:34:55 +0000

“SteveGlansburg Said:

It better come out with GSM capability, the rest of the world isn’t old school like Verizon’s network…”

You know one thing I hate most, is when people speak on things they know nothing about, because you spread things that are not true.

CDMA is not an old school technology.
CDMA is a newer better technology then GSM.
HSUPA, HSDPA, or what ever it’s called these days is not 3G GSM it’s WCDMA.
Verizon is not switching to GSM…
LTE is neither GSM, nor CDMA, it’s something altogether different…

Questions:
1. Why have their been 3G CDMA phones for years on Verizon and Sprints networks, but we are now starting to see 3G Iphones, 3G blackberries coming to WCDMA/GSM networks in 08?
2. Why has Verizon had 3G blackberries since 05…
3. How can Verizon’s network be rated the best network, year after year, if it’s “old school”
4. how come most american carriers are CDMA

Why don’t you go look up why most of Europe is on GSM, I don’t have time to type all of that in this post but the answer is different then what you maybe thinking.

Sometimes I think people should go jump off a building knees first before posting…

By: seemigly alrge mistake

seemigly alrge mistake — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:14:41 +0000

“seemigly alrge mistake”

Which was what? the 2 year old who typed up the article on this site or the 4 year old who put the thunder on Expansys.

-.-

By: jojomexi

jojomexi — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:27:46 +0000

Im really hoping that if its coming to verizon that it will also come to sprint. having a phone such as this on the currently fastest network in the US would be very awesome

By: SteveGlansburg

SteveGlansburg — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:09:34 +0000

It better come out with GSM capability, the rest of the world isn’t old school like Verizon’s network…

By: Wegmans

Wegmans — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:46:30 +0000

I just bought an iPhone 3g on preorder… sorry Thunder.. maybe some other time

By: Nik

Nik — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:25:51 +0000

It’s not on the site anymore

By: skim

skim — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:01:53 +0000

i think i’ll wait until it comes out on verizon four months later *sigh*