With days to go to the official Vodafone/Verizon Storm release we grow more and more anxious to see hot RIM’s first touchscreen phone will do out there. The video above will show you some of the Stom’s most interesting features. Compared to its inspiration and main competitor, the iPhone, the Storm will have some advantages, like the copy paste function and the haptic feedback, and some disadvantages like the lack of WiFi and the lack of a wide selection of third-party applications.

Check the video above for a short and very virtual hands-on Storm experience. We’re going to bring you all the facts later on.

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Vodafone has announced that the Storm will be released on November 14. We were expecting that, didn’t we? What we didn’t expect was the November 18 date showing up on Vodafone’s Storm pre-order page. Well then Vodafone, make up your mind! We should be waiting for the Storm to arrive in November, right?

Verizon is rumored to release the Storm during the same time although we don’t have any clear information on that either. Is everything ok with the Storm?

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ZTE is joining in on the smartphone competition as the Vodafone 1231 has shown up at the FCC. The phone will feature a QVGA display and GPS on a large 2.5-inch display, 64MB RAM, 1.3 megapixel camera. However, it surprisingly lacks 3G and Wi-Fi, so that means, it can’t compete with the more top-end phones in the market today.

Vodafone 1231 measures 113 x 65.4 x 14.5 mm, weighs 130 grams and draws its juice from a 1100 mAh Li-Ion battery. There is no information on the device pricing and availability, but without 3G and Wi-fi, it will pretty much be an affordable handset.

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Tags: Cell Phones, Mobile News, Vodafone, Vodafone 1231, ZTE

We were wondering what the price for the Storm is going to be, especially after we’ve seen those super cheap Storms Vodafone is going to offer. Thanks to Verizon’s Wireless scavenger hunt which is going to take place in New York soon we can tell you that the Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Storm Price is $499. That’s what the ARV is, at least according to the terms and conditions page:

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

So if $499 is the full price it means Verizon might just offer the same good prices Vodafone does.

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Well then, the FCC has approved the GSM-only BlackBerry Storm. The GSM version will have GSM and WCDMA 2100 while the whole version will support CDMA. Here’s what this version will bring you:

• 1GB of memory, 192MB RAM
• 1400 mAhr battery. Standby time: 528 hours
• MicroUSB port
• MicroSD and MicroSDHC expandable up to 8GB
• 3.2 megapixel camera, flash, 2.5x digital zoom, auto focus and image stabilization
• Video capture
• Assisted GPS
• Quad-band

We’ll be waiting for more Storm-good-news from the FCC soon.

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After seeing how Vodafone is going to play the whole BlackBerry Storm deal, Verizon Wireless might pull a similar trick. The Storm is going to be available for pretty silly prices in Europe at a first glance. But the monthly charges will surely make up for that.

So is Verizon getting ready to unveil its lower than lowest Storm prices? Is the giant carrier ready to pull one of the best pricing offers of the holidays? Are we going to have a $99 Verizon Wireless Storm?

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The Storm is approaching and we have plans for it. Vodafone plans to be specific. You will find below details about what a Vodafone’s going to charge for the European BlackBerry Storm. And we have Storm pricing too.

The Perfect Choice Access 100 plan will get you the Storm for 109.99 Euro or about $141. The monthly fee is 49.99 Euro or $64 and you’ll get just 100 voice minutes, 100 SMS messages and 1GB of BlackBerry e-mail, mobile TV and 10 music downloads.

The Perfect Choice Access 200 will get you the corresponding number of voice minutes and SMS messages but the data plan will remain unchanged. The plan costs 64.99 Euro per month and the Storm will cost 64.99 too.

The Perfect Choice Access 400 will cost 84.99 Euro per month and it will get you a Storm for 69.99 Euro while the monthly fee is 84.99 Euro. You will get 400 minutes, 400 SMS messages and the same data plan.

The Perfect Choice Access 600 plan will cost 99.99 per month while the phone will cost 49.99 Euro. Unfortunately the same data plan remains.

Objections anyone? Verizon plans anyone?

Tags: BlackBerry, Mobile News, Plans, Portable Devices, Research In Motion, RIM, Storm, Verizon, Verizon, Vodafone, Vodafone

It looks like today is a Stormy day, but not as Stormy as November will be. We are to expect Thunder/Storms in various places around the world, and especially in the USA and the UK. After we have seen Verizon’s idea of a commercial, let’s take a look at Vodafone’s approach.

The video shows us what the Storm is all about as it takes us to most of its significant features. Stay tuned for more news about the phone as we prepare to enter the Storm soon.

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Vodafone is the UK carrier which will serve Brits with Storms soon. While waiting for more information about the whole UK launch we have found some leaked pictures of the newest BlackBerry. (more…)

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Much of the following is purely speculative but if proven true, we might just witness the best BlackBerry launch ever.

It’s being said that the Storm and the Thunder do not refer to the same device. It looks like the Storm and the Thunder are both new Berries, both with a full touchscreen. The difference you ask? The Storm would have a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard. Just for those which can’t make it without an actual keyboard. (more…)

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As rumored before, Vodafone will pick up RIM’s BlackBerry Storm and offer it exclusively in the UK. It looks like the British carrier will dump the Thunder name in favor of the Storm. I’ve gotten used to the Thunder and now I’ll have to get used to the Storm.

RIM is said to announce the BlackBerry some time in October and the actual phone will hit the shops in November, well in time for the Christmas shopping spree.

What about other countries? Is RIM going to go to Chile again? (more…)

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Dell has just officially launched it’s Inspiron 9 Mini and Vodafone is already ready to bundle it with a 3G option. (more…)

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A quick hop over to Orange UK’s website reveals that the latest devil from RIM is already out of stock, the same situation as the high-priced New York sellout. Vodafone UK looks to create the same kind of magic with the BlackBerry Bold, which is available starting now, and you don’t have to pay the $1300 premium price as the carrier is offering this HSDPA, WiFi, and GPS-laden smartphone for free on a £35pm two-year contract with goodies like unlimited texting, 500MB data transfer, and 600 minutes of talktime. A sweet deal indeed for a device that has a multimedia player, 1GB of internal memory with microSD expansion, a full QWERTY keypad, and a half-VGA 480×320 display. The 2-megapixel cam seems to be the only qualm, but then if you wanted imaging power, you would be thinking of the Innov8, wouldn’t ya?
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As you already know, we are 2 days away from the second iPhone 3G wave. 20 more countries will receive the new Apple handset, including India. Vodafone is going to sell the device in India and it has prices lined up already. The 8GB version will sell for 31,000 Rupees or $708 and the 16GB version will sell for 36,100 or $824.
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While T-Mobile wants to copy Apples’ App Store it appears that Vodafone wants to copy Apple’s iTunes thing.

And not only did Vodafone launch one music store but they have launched two. Just to make sure you have a selection of songs to chose from right? The first store, Omnifone’s MusicStation has been around for a while, but now Master Voda has something new: Vodafone Music.
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Yes the computer in the picture is an Eee PC. Yes it is a 701 version. Yes it comes from Vodafone with a mobile Internet plan.

It appears Asus’ Eee strikes again. Vodafone has picked up the 701 version and it launched the Vodafone NetPC plan. Besides the mini-laptop, the plan includes a “Vodafone Connect” USB modem which will give you access to 3G Internet surfing at speeds of up to 7.2MBps. For now Vodafone Portugal has it in store but it’s likely that other countries will follow. Vodafone is thinking out of the box here and it’s ready to offer the Eee 701 PC in two versions: a Linux based one and a Windows XP version. The prices will vary depending on what model you choose. Linux will get you a $313 Eee PC while XP will raise the price to $360. Besides that there’s a monthly Internet plan for the next 18-months to be paid. Check back with your Vodafone shop near you if you’re in Portugal right now.

Tags: 3G, ASUS, ASUS, Eee, mobile internet devices, Vodafone, Vodafone

Samsung Omnia along with the already launched Instinct are two of the most awaited phones this year. While we’ve seen the Instinct at work, and we’ve heard about Sprint’s success at selling it, the Omnia is still missing in action. Well the waiting is almost over. The SGH-i900 Omnia will be released in Germany this summer.

Lucky Germans will get the Omnia from August 6th. Without a plan, the already announced price for the 8GB version is 649 Euro or $1032. Whatever carrier you might prefer to chose in Germany, it will offer the Omnia/ All four German carriers, T-Mobile, Vodafone, E-Plus and O2 will get ready to sell this latest Samsung release. T-Mobile and Vodafone are reported to already have it on display while O2 has already confirmed a launch in a previous press release.

If you need a little reminder of the Omnia’s features, here they are:

• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
• quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• singleband UMTS/HSDPA
• WiFi
• Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR
• FM radio
• GPS receiver.
• Synaptics 3.2″ WQVGA (240 x 400 pixel) touch screen with haptic feedback
• built-in
• touch sensitive trackpad instead of a regular D-Pad
• 5.0 megapixel autofocus camera with facial and smile detection, auto-panorama shot and image stabilizer.
• a size of 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm
• 1440 mAh battery.

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Vodafone is the last Australian carrier not to have disclosed so far their iPhone plans pricing. We’ve seen Telstra and Optus rolling out their offer. I don’t understand what the big deal is Vodafone! I mean you did put your offers up in other countries right?

Apparently someone committed an unforgivable human error and posted Vodafone plans and prices on their official site only to have them removed later. Unfortunately people were watching all that and immediately took some notes.

According to those, the cheapest Vodafone prices start at $69 per month. You get only 250MB of data and the iPhone will cost $189 or $309. The highest plan will cost $169 per month with the iPhone offered for free or for just $89 depending on version. With this top tier plan you will get 1GB of data. And you will get just a 1GB data transfer limit.

How uncool is that? Why not offer the full 5GB data you are offering for $39 with a USB HSDPA modem regularly? Shouldn’t iPhone customers benefit from that limit too? Bad Vodafone!

We’ll be waiting for a proper data correction for these plans which I expect to be made officially official in the upcoming days.

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New Zeeland is the luckiest country this week. Due to their global positioning, they will be the first to launch the 3G iPhone. Vodafone is selling the iPhone in New Zeeland too and they will start it Friday, July 11th at 12:01AM local time in Auckland City, Wellington and Christchurch. Let’s see how Vodafone has prepared for this market.
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In Italy the 3G iPhone is coming too from Vodafone. But another mobile carrier, TIM is also going to offer the iPhone. As long as there’s competition we should see better offers coming from both of them.
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