Comments on: BlackBerry Storm 9500 and 9530, everything you could ever want to know

By: Chuck Bass

Chuck Bass — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:10:56 +0000

I am living in the Barbados(caribbean region) and I can’t seem to watch youtube Videos on my blackberry storm……….I keep getting an error.what do i do?

By: Derek Solmenakh

Derek Solmenakh — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:08:17 +0000

The basic difference is that the 9500 is Quadband GSM – whereas the 9530 is Quadband GSM along with a dual band CDMA –

And yea, youtube doesn’t quite work well with the STORM – The phone hangs up – This is purely a business phone for the new generation business enterpreneurs.. Buy it only if you are living breathing on your emails – Or else, nothing, absolutely nothing beats the i-Phone!!

By: Ant

Ant — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:42:39 +0000

Can someone simplify the difference between a 500 and 530 please.

By: sabrina

sabrina — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:45:38 +0000

man, i’m planning on getting the storm this weekend, i hope that all the hype i heard bout it was true cause now im just hearing negative comments bout it. im always on youtube, i hope that i don’t get the distorted picture on my phone. Now i’m having second thoughts

By: sabrina

sabrina — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:31:20 +0000

i still don’t know the difference between the blackberry storm 9500 and the blackberry storm 9530, please tell me wich is better.

By: stuart

stuart — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:11:44 +0000

is the storm not ment to play youtube clips cause my storm plays them distorted?

By: stuart

stuart — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:27:47 +0000

Can anyone tell me if the storm plays youtube clips clearly cause my storm gives out a fuzzy picture?

By: Mr M

Mr M — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:00:22 +0000

what is the difference between the 9500 and the 9530????

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:03:58 +0000

is there 2 different devices i see 9530 and 9500 is one for verizon and the other for at&t and tmobile, what is the deal

By: KT

KT — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:54:49 +0000

Does anyone think T-Mobile will ever have this? It’s a sweet looking phone.

By: emt

emt — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:22:33 +0000

Verizon is taking a big step in the right direction…

By: vandy1997

vandy1997 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:14:33 +0000

@DavidB

I have owned Blackberry phones, and I was not very impressed by them. They are exceptional when it comes to e-mailing, but they aren’t anything special with respect to anything else. I don’t need to receive e-mails instantaneously, so it’s not an important feature for me. And currently the iPhone handles e-mails just fine. That’s my opinion, ok? The only thing that sucks is AT&T’s service; I had Verizon previously, and its service in the Northeast is definitely superior! I have an iPhone and had a Treo before the iPhone, and the iPhone was truly unique when it came out. It’s nice to see so many companies emulating many of its features, especially considering the fact that RIM’s co-CEO stated that the iPhone wouldn’t be successful since it didn’t have a physical keyboard – and now RIM is putting out a phone with no physical keyboard! We’ll see how it plays out when the phone is in users’ hands. The Storm will not have much that I will find to be missing in the iPhone. I never used cut and paste on my Treo (even though it had it). I don’t use MMS, so that’s not important. So the iPhone suits me fine. I’m still surprised that RIM would create a kickass phone without WiFi. That’s pretty embarrassing! Maybe that was one of Verizon’s requirements. That’s why I got tired of Verizon – they crippled all of their phones. And it will do the same with this phone, unfortunately. I hope that the phone is solid (and the software as well). That will make Apple work twice as hard to build a better phone! The other “iPhone killers” have proved to be less than stellar, so we shall see.

By: kimmayyyy

kimmayyyy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:04:28 +0000

this looks like a nice fone..i love blackberrys.. it better come out 4 at&t

By: heyn

heyn — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:24:25 +0000

i just talked to a verizon rep yesterday and they said early november is when they expect it to release

By: DavidB

DavidB — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:35:03 +0000

@Matigas:
Have yo been living under a rock? Oh, wait, your real name is Rip Van Winkle right?

By: David

David — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:12:03 +0000

Your right about the convenience keys, can’t they tell left from right???

Also not sure about those icons, the squares look rubbish.

By: AlbertWesker

AlbertWesker — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:34:59 +0000

Well Larry,

Unfortunately, I don’t sympathize with you. If you can’t manage to be a better parent and monitor what it is that your children are viewing on the internet, it is your problem, and take your whining somewhere else.

What is also reality is that curse words are part of the english language. This is an adult site with comments posted by adults for adults. When someone curses in public every time, do you go up to that person and ask them to watch what they are saying in front of your daughter, or do you petition television also due to its profane nature whenever there is a sexual commercial or profane word used?

Nobody is forcing you or your daughter to read this site or the BLOG. All you have to do is block the site from her login or however she logs on to your computer. Either way, the burden is on your shoulders, not on any site or person who is on the internet.

BTW—–I still love you all, including you Larry even though you are a liberal.

By: Matigas

Matigas — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:32:07 +0000

Which carrier is this phone going to????…Looks very elegant!

By: lame-o

lame-o — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:29:37 +0000

@ larry carson:

you’ve got a great fucking point.

By: John Q

John Q — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:27:34 +0000

In America we can use big kid language. Step up you parenting skills and quite worrying about some trivial shit like a a word on a forum. Thanks for wasting our time.

By: Larry Carson

Larry Carson — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:28:12 +0000

Boy Genius or Anyone Else-

Does anyone know if any of the new 9500 or 9530 are slated to b released on AT&T?

I recently spoke to a Customer service manager who does Corporate Escalations, she said that Last Friday- 2 days ago, they were requred to take a mandatory class or inservice on the Bold, they have NOT had such regarding the lates Touch “Crave” Devices.

It appears that AT&T is in bed with Apple and cares nothing about thheir other customers who think and justifiably so… “This Apple has a rotten Core”

I-Phone is the magic word, not “What or Customers needs are”-

By the way, My Daughter came to me and stated that someone on this site is using Vulgarities that really are out of Place here- Please remember that alot of people view this site as the Cats Mmeow when it comes to Info about PDA’s and Cell phones, the person in question could have expressed himself or herself without exposing everyone else to theiir gramatical discourse.
It woould be nice if that posting was removed or just the “FKNG” Word removed-

Thank You

By: DavidB

DavidB — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:39:14 +0000

@vandy:
ONE thing? There are MANY things the Storm will do that iPhone can’t. Not that iPhone doesn’t have its place too, and can do things Storm can’t, but my gosh dude there’s FAR more than ONE thing…

By: vandy1997

vandy1997 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:19:03 +0000

It looks really slick. The fact that Wi-Fi will not be included is lame and unacceptable! I like the LED for notifications. That’s one thing that the iPhone is lacking is a way to notify you of a missed call, voicemail, IM, or e-mail when the phone is not active!

By: look

look — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:58:26 +0000

i don’t want to know!

By: Stephen Jenkins

Stephen Jenkins — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:55:40 +0000

The ppt presentation we saw from Engadget mentioned the Storm had STANDALONE and Assisted GPS. This new document only indicates AGPS. What’s the deal? Which is true? Maybe it just slipped their minds here…I hope.

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:11:32 +0000

Why do I get the nasty suspicion this will end up hitting before the Bold? What an embarrassment to att… perhaps RIM’s allegiance is shifting after what may have been perceived as a backstab with the iPhone.

Still no word on what type of touch screen? I’m still waiting on someone else to use the similar capacitive tech as synaptics/iphone. I’ve learned my lesson about pressure sensitive touch after a decade of nonimprovement…

By: Mike on the Tower

Mike on the Tower — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:01:37 +0000

Is it me, or are the left/right convenience keys labeled backwards in the slide?

By: AlbertWesker

AlbertWesker — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:49:33 +0000

This is making me not want the Bold as every day passes.

By: Michael Bettiol

Michael Bettiol — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:24:05 +0000

@ Joorab,

There will not be WiFi on the Storm.

By: Joorab

Joorab — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:52:33 +0000

The wi-fi option had a check mark out of place and also had a dash in the pp!! i was wondering if storm has wi-fi? it would be a huge negative point if it wouldn’t