The folks over at Engadget just got it out. See this image below taken from VZW’s staging server. The new BlackBerry 9530 Storm will be selling for $219 with a 2 year contract when it comes out later this month according to this screen. Is this the final price? Is this the best they can do to compete with the $199 iPhone 3G?
We shall wait and see….
Press release, November 3, 2008
Rogers to offer first BlackBerry flip smartphone from $49.99 on Canada’s most reliable wireless network
Toronto and Waterloo, ON - Rogers Wireless (TSX: RCI;NYSE:RCI) and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM, TSX: RIM) are launching the BlackBerry® Pearl™ Flip 8220 smartphone, the first BlackBerry® phone to come in the popular flip form factor. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip will be available in a stylish black finish from Rogers Wireless starting November 4, with the stunning pink BlackBerry Pearl Flip coming soon.
The new BlackBerry Pearl Flip provides flip phone fans with all the power of a BlackBerry smartphone in a fun and familiar design. You can send a message to your friends or family, make a call, browse the web, snap a picture, watch a video or listen to your favorite song. It’s all in your control with a simple flip. The quad-band EDGE based BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphone presents a sophisticated look with a sleek design and a chrome-finished frame surrounding its smooth, luminescent face. It features two high-resolution, light-sensing color displays, including an external LCD that makes it easy to preview incoming emails, text messages and phone calls without opening the handset.
“Rogers Wireless continues to bring best-in-class handsets, such as the exclusive BlackBerry Pearl Flip, to the Canadian market, representing a cross-section of the best in smartphone technology, messaging solution as well as design and style,” said John Boynton, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Rogers Wireless. “The BlackBerry Pearl Flip offers discerning customers the ultimate full-featured flip paired with the leading mobile messaging solution on the market.”
Next Thursday, Nov. 13 if you find yourself in Manhattan near Times Square on Broadway between 46th Street and 47th Street then you might just win yourself the awesome new BlackBerry Storm device coming out later this month from RIM.
A similar contest was held in San Francisco where participants stepped inside a giant Storm to win prizes, among them the device itself.
source: BGR
Ok according to BGR, Best buy is now taking pre-orders for the Blackberry Storm. This is offered exclusively at Best Buy for now, and you can reserve yours for only $50. Then your Blackberry will be available on the launch date, ready for you to whisk it away, You will have set an appointment though, for the pick up. As opposed to preordering yours at a Verizon store, Best Buy seems a better option. The $50 is 100%refundable if you choose not to buy the device. If you’ve been itchin for a Storm get your derrier over to Best Buy and reserve yours, while quantities last.
Source:BGR
With the spotlight on the other Blackberry devices. i.e. Storm and Bold, Most of us sort of left the Blackberry Flip 8220 in the shadows. But we shouldn’t underestimate this Flip after all it is the first flip phone from RIM.
The iPhone takeover is still gaining strength now with a new report from JD Power and Associates. JD Power and Associates, a really important and big boss business, ranked the iPhone highest in customer satisfaction for business wireless smartphone users. Apple set out to build a smartphone for consumers that hopefully business users would eventually adopt and it worked! Apple beats RIM again.
What’s that you say? You just got the new AT&T BlackBerry Bold 9000 earlier this week and already you’ve dropped it a few times? Please don’t let it go one more day without some sort of protection. And although there’s no shortage of cases to choose from at Fommy, the one case that I love love love is the brand new Crocodile leather book case.
The nation’s soon-to-be largest wireless carrier has inadvertently shed some light on one of the biggest questions on the minds of anxious Storm fans across the country. Thanks to the contest terms and conditions regarding Verizon’s BlackBerry Storm scavenger hunt taking place in New York, it looks like the Approximate Retail Value (ARV) is set at a relatively reasonable $499. To quote the terms exactly:
Prizes: Daily Grand Prizes (50): A BlackBerry “Storm” 9500 Smartphone and a $50 Verizon Wireless gift card Approximate Retail Value (”ARV”): $549 each
Internet Retailer
The BlackBerry Partners Fund LP, a $150 million venture capital fund formed to focus on applications and services for the BlackBerry and other mobile platforms, has signaled m-commerce is an industry to watch—and is putting its money where its mouth is.
With thousands of applications from which to choose, the fund decided on an initial three, including mobile shopping mall Digby Inc. The fund has granted Digby $5.5 million in Series B Preferred Stock with the BlackBerry Partners Fund and existing BlackBerry shareholders.
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