Comments on: Verizon Storm approximate pricing revealed from contest terms

By: Max Surikov

Max Surikov — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:15:09 +0000

Looks like I’ll be pitching a tent to get my hands on the Storm. Ya gotta do what you gotta do.

By: wirelessboy_us

wirelessboy_us — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:57:55 +0000

Wow, just touched a REAL blackberry Storm today and it is incredible! It is heavier than the other Blackberry’s Verizon has, but it melts like butter in your hands. Great feel! Just the look makes it appear to be a $600 phone but its not. High res screen, very cool clickable touch screen, 8GB card, and the GSM international sim card is included. BTW, i work for Verizon and we have another training tomorrow before the release date on Friday. You better pitch a tent Thursday night by your local Verizon dealer to get 1 on Friday:)

By: Woman Genius

Woman Genius — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:28:41 +0000

My first time to this site, was searching for the new BB Storm info. I agree with Man Genius…what a bunch of losers/whiners to be crying who gave the info “first.” Just the fact that there is info to give is helpful to the site. Boys…..sheesh. (rolls eyes)

By: edgar

edgar — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:40:31 +0000

so whats the estimated retail price before and after the rebates

By: Man Genius!!!

Man Genius!!! — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:59:27 +0000

Wow!!!! This is my first time on this site. All you cry babies do is bitch. Get a life. People are here for information. Knowledge is power. Quit crying about who posted first, and wasting our time. GROW UP. By the way BG, great site.

By: Nanct

Nanct — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:46:20 +0000

I went into a Verizon store yesterday and they assured me that 1. the phones will be sold in stores on Nov. 17. 2. no pre-order in stores

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:37:11 +0000

The Storm hunt has started. The website is now enabled and the locations listed Can someone please get a keyword and post it here for the loyal BG posters!

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:56:37 +0000

Saw that the Storm was released in England with a net cost of ZERO, after rebates!! Must be more competition to re-capture lost contracts, i.e. iPhone!!

By: Stormy

Stormy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:42:47 +0000

Damn!!! I just paid $975 for one on Ebay!!! At least I’ll have mine first.

By: forte831

forte831 — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:45:19 +0000

What is rev-do? Hehe :p

By: PhonePhreek

PhonePhreek — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:19:42 +0000

Wi-Fi is undoubtelly faster but Rev-Do shouldn’t be bad at all. Perhaps a minor difference but Wi-Fi will be faster.

All I’m concerned now, since the STORM is what the IPhone wants to be when it grows up, is if the STORM app store will be anything like Apple’s app store. I’ve read reports where Apple app programers were hired by Blackberry to write apps for the STORM. I hope that’s true and if it is, IPhone is yesterday’s news.

By: Norman

Norman — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:00:13 +0000

So how much is it retail??

By: JC

JC — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:57:48 +0000

Where can you “pre-purchase” the Storm at Best Buy? Do you have to go into the store??

By: JustMe

JustMe — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:48:00 +0000

@tigerlilly9
Haha – I know what you mean, but it’ll be a cold day in hell when this phone is less than a hundred bucks. Not only is it a BB, it’s the first ever touchscreen BB.

By: SnackBerry

SnackBerry — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:23:39 +0000

On Nov 3, 2008 @ 10:23 am, SnackBerry Said:

Where is everyone getting $299 from? In the terms and conditions for contest states:

Prizes: Daily Grand Prizes (50): A BlackBerry® Storm™ 9500 Smartphone and a $50 Verizon Wireless gift card Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $549 each.

From reading that the Retail cost sounds more like $499 minus the Gift Card. Although, $299 does sound alot better

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On Nov 3, 2008 @ 10:27 am, The Boy Genius Said:

@SnackBerry

Verizon definitely changed the fine print. It used to say ARV: $299 each.

Sneaky bastards.

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By: paul d

paul d — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:11:37 +0000

Hey BG
I wrote you about this 3 days ago! What no love for a loyal fan and saavy web surfer?

By: tigerlily9

tigerlily9 — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:58:28 +0000

Dang, and here I was hoping they would price it around $150 or less. Shit, if they put it at under a hundred, I know at least 20 people who would buy one for the holiday season.

By: James

James — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:46:41 +0000

I just got off the phone with Verizon Customer Service regarding my bill. I asked her about the BB Storm release date, she put me on hold for about 5 minutes to find out because she had no idea what BB Storm is. She came back and told me that the release date will be mid november which is 11/15. I also asked her about the pricing, but she said they don’t have the pricing yet.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:29:51 +0000

You can pre-purchase the Verizon Storm at Best Buy starting yesterday.

By: mangenius

mangenius — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:23:56 +0000

its true it really is

By: Tyson

Tyson — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:11:02 +0000

ahahahhaha get em BGR get emmm

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:58:56 +0000

Pick on him all you want but he is correct… all websites, news papers, etc. will give credit when credit is due and it’s not their exclusive

By: Rajmahal

Rajmahal — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:29:27 +0000

Gee, I wonder if this douchebag writes for one of the site’s he whining about. He’s not transparent at all.

“But its just funny how other sites will give you credit, yet you refuse to do the same.”

…

“[Via RIMarkable]”

Yeah BGR, you suck because you don’t give any credit! Oh, wait.

By: Stop-N-Go

Stop-N-Go — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:55:46 +0000

Take however you want it, and minimize however you like. If I didn’t like the site, I wouldn’t be here. But its just funny how other sites will give you credit, yet you refuse to do the same.

By: forte831

forte831 — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:28:57 +0000

Um the VZW is so expensive talk is so so tired. I the plans are exactly the same bb unlimited is only 29.99 bis. Also vzw has a huge network soon to be the largest so free mins are more likely with them and does att let u txt and pix msg other customers for free?
Didn’t think so (drops mic walks away…….)

By: gambitfw

gambitfw — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:16:59 +0000

Not that this is offical by any means, but our company is a Verizon house and 2 different Verizon reps in different departments told our corporate phone person that the 17th of November was the date it would be available to us.

By: The Boy Genius

The Boy Genius — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:11:30 +0000

@SNG

Sorry, you are right. We had this written up around 5 minutes after site launched but we didn’t pub ’til a couple hours later. Regardless, there’s no need for YOU DIDN’T GET IT FIRST YOU DIDN’T GET IT FIRST. If you feel that way, you are free to browse any other site in place of BGR.

By: Stop-N-Go

Stop-N-Go — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:10:53 +0000

You’re original post went on Nov 3rd at 2:30 am. CB posted theirs on Nov 2nd. BBN got both prices up and posted before 2:30am Nov 3rd

By: Stop-N-Go

Stop-N-Go — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:47:05 +0000

@BG don’t be mad at me because I speak the truth. First off, the night this launched there were 2 separate versions, one said $549 and the other $299. Now I can show you proof 2 other sites ran this before you…..

By: sdfsdf

sdfsdf — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:43:46 +0000

UH Verizon has the most expensive network in the US, hands down. The thunder is nice though. how much internal memory does it have?