Comments on: BlackBerry Storm shows us where it was born, we meet its maker

By: Somnalia

Somnalia — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:42:34 +0000

The first batches are built in Canada to track and fix manufacturing process problems. Once the issues are fixed, subsequent orders are processed in other manufacturing facilities.

By: nelly

nelly — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:56:38 +0000

i thought the storm was manufactured in mexico? i have noticed that the new batch of bb8330 from telus are from mexico. the one i have now is made in canada!anyone know why they do this or is there a difference with build quality or what?

By: JakeyBoy

JakeyBoy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:51:21 +0000

@Dave L
thanks! i did look around, but couldn’t manage to find it based on BGR’s description. I was actually looking more on BGR’s website for it.

By: bbchristopher

bbchristopher — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:41:50 +0000

Mrs Doubtfire, Great movie, but the actual quote after ‘any questions’ is:

“So after I box em…”

“You ship em, smart @$$”

LOL

By: David A

David A — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:15:42 +0000

the knowing which colors which logic from some of you is stupid, but from some more logical. its deffinitly not labeled for the person taking the picture, if he looks up and the colors don’t match I think he would know without the labels. I also think it is funny how over speculated this picture has become on the BGR comments section. but hey our feedback is usually half of the entertainment here.

By: Eyal

Eyal — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:12:44 +0000

interesting look inside the factory, even though you don’t see much.

seems like a good quality camera too.

By: andy

andy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:37:04 +0000

They have the names above the color to test coloring for the camera. If the camera is off, and the green looks blue, then the only way to tell if it was green is with the word ‘green’ above it.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:18:00 +0000

It’s weird how they’re wearing blue lab coats like there’s chemical spillage warnings

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:19:43 +0000

I was on the phone w/ verizon today and the rep told me that the storm I ordered on 11/30 will be shipped by 12/8.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:08:38 +0000

What if the POS camera takes a picture and all the colors are distorted and you forward the information over to somebody else.. should you have to explain and take the time out to say yeah the left bar is red etc…

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:56:10 +0000

I’m glad to read some positive things about the Storm. I’ve been reading all the reviews since it came out and was disappointed. I went to Best Buy today and they had plenty in stock but I just couldn’t get myself to buy it yet. ($199 plus free $49 headset) I don’t have a blackberry yet but have wanted one for a while.
Maybe I’ll go back this week and get it. Would love to hear some more positives if anyone has some!

By: Dave L

Dave L — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:40:04 +0000

Here’s the Asian girl BG referenced. Learn to work the Google on the internet machine.

http://www.switched.com/2008/08/28/iphone-photos-turns-china-factory-worker-into-celebrity/

By: JakeyBoy

JakeyBoy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:35:57 +0000

maybe they told the workers they were going to upgrade to Mojave….LOL

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:35:19 +0000

@ Peter…thank you for clarifying that for the intuitive-deprived. I was about to reply to Stanley, Blaxx & Michael with the same response.

By: JakeyBoy

JakeyBoy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:35:07 +0000

@BGR
what cute asian chick fiasco??? I can’t find it at all. bring back the cute asian chick!

By: sooooo

sooooo — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:31:07 +0000

yes they are

they seem to be part of the more intelligent community who haven’t upgraded to the terrible OS called Vista.

By: JackJackEleven

JackJackEleven — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:12:26 +0000

They are still using XP on their machines…

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:59:11 +0000

Hey dumb dumbs the color bar and words are for someone to take a picture via storm and validate the color sequence’s are correct on the camera. Wake up and smell the cofee its basic device testing for high volume QA controls to make sure the camera is working per spec.

By: JJCool

JJCool — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:26:05 +0000

i hate to be the geek to say it, but they put the name of the color above the color so that when the camera malfunctions and doesn’t pick up the colors correctly you’ll know which one(s) it’s messing up on.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:23:24 +0000

I have heard nothing but bad things about the Storm. I finally got mine on Monday and have had not had any problems what so ever with it lagging or the camera phone. It even switches very rapidly from portrait to landscape. It is still ran on .65 so I don’t know why it runs so well. I must have gotten super lucky or something. This is a great phone…

By: jase88

jase88 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:14:14 +0000

Phillip St., Waterloo! Been in that plant many times….

By: Maliek

Maliek — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:39:47 +0000

@ Pedro

I’m just curious, what problems did they have?

By: ddowell13815

ddowell13815 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:38:59 +0000

@perdo

one word… crackberry, we’ll help them over there

By: PedroTheGoat

PedroTheGoat — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:35:30 +0000

Well I must admit. Nearly everyone I’ve helped hasn’t been extremely intellegent. If they have a problem they would rather just call me instead of typing a question into Google.

Glad you guys are having a smooth ride though.

By: Maliek

Maliek — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:21:03 +0000

I’m sorry to be another bearer of good news but my Storm is great also. It was good with .65 and even better with .75. Sorry, that I won’t be calling you for support Pedro. lol.

By: mikebeau

mikebeau — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:13:09 +0000

at Pedrothegoat

too bad for you. my storm is awesome. your friends must be retards

By: PedroTheGoat

PedroTheGoat — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:53:16 +0000

I need a quick rant on the Storm. All of my friends and all of my girlfriend’s friends know that I am a Blackberry nut. I of course hyped to all of them to get a Storm if they were with Verizon. STUPID mistake for me. Now it seems like everyday I’m on the phone with one of them for about 3 hours explaining how to install .75. Explaining that their battery may suck because of the manufacturer. Etc. Etc. Etc.

I don’t even own one of these bastard phones! I’m with Sprint for Gods sake! Why the hell am I on the phone 3 hours everyday helping people try to fix the botched launch! RIM has kinda hurt my feelings this time around. I wonder if they would compensate me for all the time I’ve spent trying to fixed their abortion of a phone? Argh.

There’s my rant. Screw the camera test! The fucker barely works!

By: TJ Combo

TJ Combo — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:50:18 +0000

@oldbluebox oh yea that was a real ‘LMAO’ moment right there…

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:39:23 +0000

What’ll they do next..write “caution: hot” on cups of coffee…oh wait they already do that.

By: oldbluebox

oldbluebox — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:38:17 +0000

@Marc Flores Lol sooooo funny. I was really laughing my ass off reading that. =P