BlackBerry Storm owners should be happy to know that the firmware update they have been waiting is out there. Firmware 4.7.0.75 has not been officially released to the masses yet but it has been leaked. More people have gotten it and it looks like the update works fine so far. Let’s see if RIM confirms this firmware and if they have a different version ready to release.

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The Storm has some OS problems and there’s no way to deny that. That’s OS v4.7.0.65 if you are wondering. Luckily a firmware update is scheduled for early December, which means that some of your problems might be solved. Will Verizon and RIM be able to fix everything eventually?

The first OTA update - Maintenance Release 1 - will arrive in the first week of December. Here are some of the issues that will be initially fixed:

If a customer receives a call while listen to music at low volume using a wired headset, the music volume may suddenly increase to the highest level (!). Interim recovery instructions: Lower the volume using the buttons on the side of the handset.

When using voice-activated dialing, incoming audio may be muted. Interim recovery instructions: Enter the menu and select “Activate Handset or Speaker”.

The handset may reset itself while sitting idle or while using multimedia applications. No interim recovery instructions provided.

A future Maintenance Release should also take care about the following problems:

Customers may intermittently lose email connectivity via CDMA and/or international roaming modes. Interim recovery instructions: Main menu -> Manage Connections -> Select mobile network -> Turn radio off, then Turn radio on. If this does not resolve the issue, pull the battery.

When powering on the handset, the radio sometimes does not turn on. Interim recovery instructions: Main menu -> Manage Connections -> Select mobile network -> Turn radio on. If this does not resolve the issue, pull the battery.

Pressing the send key while the device is in landscape mode will open the phone application in portrait mode, but the speed dial function may not work. Interim recovery instructions: Press escape until the home screen appears, then press the send key with the handset in portrait orientation.

Sometimes entering characters on the virtual keyboard doesn’t work. Interim recovery instructions: Re-select the character.

What’s your Storm experience? Come on, don’t be shy! Tell us all about it!

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As I had been expecting, the latest Blackberry model, coming into the world to defy Phonejesus iPhone, hasn’t remained long enough on the store shelves to gather any dust. Verizon hasn’t yet officially announced anything regarding the exact Storm sales figures but they’ve must have done pretty good.

Unfortunately for those who didn’t get to a Verizon Store in time but still want one, I’ve got some bad news! Shipments are being delayed until December 15th.

via engadgetmobile

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Today is the day Verizon subscribers, and not only, were waiting for. It’s the day when the BlackBerry Storm gets released. How will it be? Well for now it looks like Verizon stores have lines with more people in them than the Storm stocks. But we already knew that right?

iPhone 3G launch deja vu? The phone wasn’t available for days at AT&T and Apple stores and that’s what’s going to happen to Storm too. If you happen to spot irregularities in the whole process do tell us. Until know we’ve heard how certain stores deliver Storms only to new customers which is totally not cool!

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Does Verizon have enough Storms stacked all around their stores starting tomorrow? Are we going to see iPhone-like-queues in front of Verizon’s establishments across the USA? Well it looks like that. People are saying that Verizon might have a problem in shipping all those Storms to its stores. And it’s not because there aren’t enough Storms to go around but because of a tiny OS security flaw which made Verizon re-flash the handsets.

Here are some hints suggesting that the new Berry will be a rarity in stores the following days. A Verizon Corporate store was promised 100 units on launch day but it will only be getting 20 today, 40 tomorrow and 40 on Saturday. Is this what’s going to happen to all stores? Will Verizon spread out the stock? Unofficially that looks to be the case. Best Buy might even delay its Verizon launch as Verizon will surely send Storms to its stores first. We’ll see how this whole situation evolves in the near future.

via BGR

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RIM seems to be working hard this year. Besides the Storm launch we’ve received news that the company is creating Berries ready for LTE and now we find out that it’s also preparing to launch a whole new music streaming service based on Didiom.

Didiom is a music marketplace which will get you on-device downloads and tracks streaming from your iTunes library to your handset. Didiom tracks cost $0.89 and albums cost $9.99. Nothing particular you say right? All files are DRM-free MP3s but we don’t know yet when everything will be ready for action.

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Is RIM working on an LTE ready BlackBerry? Well sure it is! LTE is part of the near or far future. LTE will bring an extra G to current 3G speeds and it will be available sometime in 2011 or 2012. Hopefully by then 3G will be a common network for any carrier around the world.

Is RIM getting ready for 4G too early? Well I’d say the company should better prepare for the times ahead. If they’re going to keep rolling out handsets at least as promising as their latest Storm, they should be prepared to offer 100Mbps download speeds in the future.

via BGR

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Verizon has finally made official the release date of the BlackBerry Storm. It’s November 21st and everyone will get it: corporate stores, telesales, online stores, you name it. It’s not the 16th and it’s not the 24th as we speculated before. Get your money ready and head over to a Verizon store on November 21st. The Storm will cost $199 with a $50 mail-in-rebate and with a two-year plan. But you already knew that right?

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Well it’s finally official. The Network hasn’t released the BlackBerry Storm yet but according to leaked info it’s going to do it soon and November 24th is the day you’re going to get it if you’re not one of the high-end Verizon customers. November 20th is going to be the day when the Storm arrives at 123 corporate Verizon Store in a pre-launch sort-of-way.

The official price is going to be $199.99 after mail-in-rebate with a two year agreement. But since all of this is leaked info we need now the officially official announcements! Your ball Verizon!

via BGR

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We’ve been waiting for them and here they are. The Verizon Wireless prices for the BlackBerry Storm are all out displayed on Verizon’s website. So, without further ado, here are the official prices: $219 with a 2 year contract, $289 with a 1 year contract and $519 without a contract.

The prices aren’t near final yet. I am sure some rebates and discounts will emerge soon enough. We’ll be waiting for the official release date now!

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It was time Nokia divulged some secrets regarding its future smartphone lineup. It might be a just an innocent mistake but it could also be a very intentional leak in order to make us dream again of future Nokia smartphones. After all Nokia has lost some market share in favor of Apple and RIM and it probably wants it back.

Among the specs we find 3-inch VGA displays, sliders, QWERTY keyboards, 5 megapixel camera and lots more. 2009 might just be a great Nokia year when it comes to smartphones! Check out the table below snatched by the guys from Engadget Mobile. (more…)

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Apple’s iPhone did very good in the U.S. lately. In fact the iPhone 3G did so well in sales that it managed to grab that number one position held by Motorola’s RAZR. That all happened during the third quarter of the year. RAZR’s was holding that number one spot for about three years. Motorola fell on the second place and it’s followd by the BlackBerry Curve, the Rumor and the V2, both from LG.

Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for NPD said:

The displacement of the RAZR by the iPhone 3G represents a watershed shift in handset design from fashion to fashionable functionality. Four of the five best-selling handsets in the third quarter were optimized for messaging and other advanced Internet features.

Well then, we’re waiting for Moto to get a new device at least as popular as the RAZR. Maybe an Android RAZR?

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Is Steve Ballmer ready to admit that some Apple ideas are actually good? Apparently Apple’s App Store is inspiring enough for Stevie to create a Microsoft App Store in the future.

Here’s what Steve Ballmer said about a potential Microsoft App Store:

I actually will agree that there’s some good work, particularly at Facebook and also with the iPhone, where both of those companies have made it easier for developers to distribute their applications.

Well there’s nothing there to suggest that Microsoft will set up an app store soon but such a move will revive their mobile business. Lately Microsoft lost quite some market share to Apple and RIM.

via computerworld

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The smartphone business has taken a hit and I am not referring to the economical crisis we’re currently living in. I am talking about Apple and RIM who are boldly going after Nokia’s first place on top of the smartphone business. Needless to say the two companies have already outranked Microsoft, Samsung or Motorola and they are going for the big kill.

Although down from 51.4% smartphone market share last year to 38.9% this year, I am sure Nokia won’t lose it’s crown soon. Apple has a 17.3% of the worldwide market share while RIM is tailing along with 15.2% Apple is advantaged by the fact it only has two cell phones out there compared to RIM’s countless Berries that are sold almost anywhere. But the Storm is coming which means we are in for a tough battle between Apple and RIM for the second place. And let’s not forget about the G1 who is also coming in hot!

via ArsTechnica

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People are definitely waiting for the BlackBerry Storm. The newest RIM smartphone has just become the number 1 handset searched online. It has surpassed the iPhone, the Nokia N94 and the G1. Just check out the graph above! That’s impressive for now, but it will be interesting to see if the Storm can keep its position up there. In the mean time we’re waiting for Verizon to unveil its pricing for the Storm. If it’s as cheap as some say, then maybe the Storm will hold the number 1 position for quite a while.

via mad4mobilephones

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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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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.

via RIMarkable

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November 14th seems the day Verizon will unleash the Storm. We were thinking November 16 earlier but 14 is fine too. Next Friday is also the day Verizon is going to introduce the new data plans too. You know, the ones we were talking about earlier! The plans that will replace the PAYG data plans Verizon used to have.

Here’s what a Verizon worker said:

I work for Verizon wireless. Your post was correct: We are putting in forced data packs on the 14th. The reason is that this is the Storm’s release date from every memo that we have been given access to, it will be released that morning at all Verizon Corporate stores. Second tier resellers, like Wireless Zone, will get it at the end of the month.

via Gizmodo

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Besides the Verizon booth in San Francisco, Verizon has other Storm-related surprises for you. From November 6th to November 15th there’s a treasure hunt going on in Manhattan. Check out the map Verizon is going to release and text in location codes as fast as possible. Five lucky winners will end up with a free BlackBerry Storm while the runners-up will get some gift cards.

In the mean time take your time checking the updated Storm website page from Verizon and hope that November 16th will be the date you get to play with the Storm.

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The Bold is finally coming in the US of A and AT&T is bringing it. In case you won’t believe it until you see it then check back with your local AT&T stores. It’s said that some of these stores are going to sell the device starting today. Or maybe they have already done so. In case your favorite AT&T manager doesn’t want to sell one yet, you’ll have to wait two more days. What’s two more days compared to the time you’ve spent waiting so far?

via Apple

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