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  Move over Dakota, Curve and Torch 2 as we’ve got one more Blackberry candidate revealing itself. It’s the Blackberry Storm 3 that will be upgraded this year with some meaty specs. BGR again got their mitts on the detailed info that confirms Storm 3 will have the highest screen resolution found on a BB [...]

  RIM has announced its second touchscreen device in India. The Blackberry Storm2 expectedly ups its predecessor with an updated SurePress technology, Wi-Fi and Blackberry OS 5. Storm2 boasts a smooth design with sloped edges, stainless steel backplate and features a 3.25-inch (360×480) capacitive touchscreen display, 3.2MP camera, Wi-Fi, quad-band GSM and 3G support, 2GB [...]

  Verizon Storm (9530) users have a reason to smile as they’re the first ones to receive the BB OS 5.0 update. The update promises to bring a lot of new features and of course, stability to RIM’s first touchscreen attempt. To be specific, the phone will give faster, accurate and natural text input experience, [...]

  It’s not much of a surprise for Verizon looking to clear out old Storm’s inventory but this is a steal. If you ever wanted to own a touchscreen Blackberry this is the time to get it. Verizon is selling Storm 9530 for just $50 with a 2-year contract that went for about $200 in [...]

  Verizon users will soon be spoilt for choice. A total of six phones, out of which five phones are power packed have been added to Verizon’s Inventory Database, hinting their launch maybe near. The phones – RIM BlackBerry Storm 2, HTC Touch Pro2 (XV6875), Samsung Omnia II, Convoy U640 and interestingly two Palm devices [...]

  Ask a company and they would give rational reasons so as to why one should go with capacitive or resistive touchscreens. But giving this one of a kind to a consumer defeats the advantages other type of screen has to offer. This is why, Research in Motion has come up with a novel solution. [...]

  We are gearing up for a probable September release but Kevin from Crackberry has already got his hands-on the successor of Storm. Being an early-stage device, the video does not give a full preview but it’s good to see the phone in real world. The unit did not have Wi-Fi radio and surprisingly had [...]

  Boy Genius has managed to get some more details of the upcoming Blackberry touchscreen phone. According to the deets he received, the Blackberry 9550 due on Verizon and Vodafone will be called as Storm 2. In addition to the confirmation of a new touchscreen tech better than SurePress and Wi-Fi, the Storm 2 will [...]

  Forget September because the word on the street is that Storm’s successor could head our ways soon. Though the exact date is still a mystery, the little birdie over at Verizon tells BlackberryOS that it could be launched in this month or next. The Storm 2 is expected to have Wi-Fi, new touchscreen technology [...]

  The guy who seems to have leaked the Onyx photos is back again with the pictures of Blackberry’s second touchscreen device, the Storm 2. There are no hardware details but the successor looks thinner, has a 3.2 megapixel camera and possibly runs a new touchscreen tech. [Via Engadget]

  Being the first touchscreen device from RIM, Storm was neither an outstanding nor a bad device. Now the word from co-CEO, Jim Balsillie is that they are already preparing a Storm successor. “We have next-generation devices with that and the whole roadmap”, Balsillie told Reuters. Storm’s successor rumor was rife last month which claimed [...]

  Blackberry Storm was RIM’s first experiment with touchscreen phones. Though many liked the attempt, the exclusion of Wi-Fi and the hyped SurePress screen was a downer. Now according to a Dutch channel sales manager, RIM is looking to do the wrong things right. The Storm 2 will feature Wi-Fi and have a new touchscreen [...]

  Verizon is running a cool buy one get one offer for all Blackberry devices but if you’re one of the many sole souls who do not need another handset, then Amazon will come to your rescue. They are selling Blackberry Storm for just $99 with no rebates, nothing. Just pay the cash, enter into [...]

  You know, deriving price of the handsets on the basis of hardware purchases is actually baseless but iSuppli loves to do it, and so do we. This time they have stripped down Blackberry Storm and calculated the cost of each component present in the device. The study says that $203 is the total cost [...]

  Just when RIM’s co-CEO’s statement was doing the rounds about a screwed up firmware and sales figure to be estimated around 500,000 units, Verizon decided to step in and clear the smoke. The company official has said that they have managed to sell more than a million units in the US since its launch. [...]