RSSBlackBerry Storm drives up RIM shares amid sellouts
By Tim Conneally | Published November 24, 2008, 2:52 PM
Tremendous lines reportedly amassed outside of several metropolitan Verizon Wireless stores awaiting the new BlackBerry Storm, only to have eager fans turned away empty handed.
Today, shares in parent company Verizon have jumped in value nearly six percent in midday trading, but many BlackBerry fans are skeptical about the efficacy of Verizon Wireless' Storm launch.
However, BlackBerry enthusiasts are attributing the widespread Storm sell-outs to a Boy Genius Report that speculates at reduced stock numbers due to an OS downgrade that RIM initiated before launch. Users walked home with an old version of the OS (4.7.0.65), even though several newer iterations are known to exist, even loaded on in-store demo units. BGR found that underneath the box labels of these units was a label for OS v.4.7.0.82, and believes that OS build was too problematic to launch with.
Though practically all figures surrounding the Storm launch are nebulous at best, the common bit of information that everyone has received is the date December 15. This is the date that most sources give as the next time that the BlackBerry Storm will once again be available for purchase.
Should post an update to this article. BB just released an announcement saying the sticker glitch was nothing more than a glitch. The wrong numbers were printed and then they had to print more to put over the wrong stickers. It had nothing to do with a bad build version.
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|The internal workings of the Storm may be better than the iPhone - I don't know. But what I do know is I've seen someone on the train with one and they no way look as good as the iPhone. Aesthetics are just as important as functionality to me and there has to be a happy medium. To me the Storm just doesn't cut the mustard with it's looks.
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|sounds like a rim job to me.
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|The Blackberry crowd is almost as pathetic as the Apple / iPhone lemmings.
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|@TomA102210
then you will wait forever ;)
The development never stop. Beside I wait for the new Nokia's 2009 with FOTA Firmware over the Air to replace my N95.
Back to Blackberry Storm, it is a shame that this phone is with out WiFi.
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|I'm totally not a fan of RIM's firmware =)... as a Blackberry owner and someone watching the development of the Gphones and iPhones ... there is a lot of catch up to do on many fronts, and I cannot understand why RIM's updates are so sparse and take so long to RTM...
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|I'll wait a while on this one and let them work out some kinks in the device.
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