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Bumpy Start for BlackBerry Storm
Geeknews —
Blackberry Storm Like all other iPod posers (aka âiPod Killersâ), the Blackberry Storm is having trouble out of the starting gate and thatâs nothing new to previous posers to AAPLâs âJesus Phoneâ. Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion Ltd. have high hopes for the BlackBerry Storm, which they spent nearly two years developing as their big response to Apple Inc.’s iPhone. â But despite a marketing campaign that cost more than $100 million, the smart phone has gotten off to a bumpy start. In other Blackberry news : - ...
RIM CEO: Buggy smartphone software is the "new reality"
Engadget —
... While our experience says otherwise, we really hope that the practice of launching buggy smartphones hasn't been institutionalized. The Wall Street Journal just published a report about the "bumpy launch" of the BlackBerry Storm -- a handset that WSJ ...
500.000 BlackBerry Storm vendidas en todo el mundo
Celularis —
Según la nota de WSJ a unos de los directores de RIM, BlackBerry Storm, la primera experiencia de BlackBerry en versiones touchscreen, ya lleva vendidos más de medio millon de unidades desde su lanzamiento el 21 de noviembre alrededor del mundo.
Algo de todo esto tiene que ver con estrategia de precios que ha logrado imponer BlackBerry a las operadoras móviles, todo gracias al interesante ARPU que le generan los servicios de BB. Los excelentes precios que se ven en las promociones ...
RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie Says Buggy Smartphone Software Is The “New Reality”
RIMarkable —
... In a Wall Street Journal Interview, Research in Motion co-CEO, Jim Balsillie, when referring to the rocky start that the BlackBerry Storm has endured due to software glitches actually said this is part of the “new reality” of making a complex cellphones in large quantities. ...
BlackBerry Maker CEO: Buggy, Busted Ass Smartphones Are the "New Reality" [BlackBerry]
Gizmodo —
... before it even landed in consumers' hands. RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie now explains the situation perfectly: Buggy, busted ass smartphones are the "new reality." ...
RIM Co-CEO Blames Hurried Launch for Buggy BlackBerry Storm Software
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... a part of the “new reality”, but that’s no fallback for launching an unusable device, especially when those updates are few and far between.
In any case, both Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and RIM seemed perfectly happy with the launch: Verizon reported single-digit percentage returns, and RIM is pumping out 250,000 units a week to meet demand after selling a half-million devices in the first month. What about you? Who’s happy with their Storm?
[WSJ via Engadget]
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BlackBerry Storm should have been Free to the first 500,000 Owners
I4U News —
... it is no wonder that the BlackBerry Storm sales are far from what Apple sold with the iPhone. The WSJ runs a story that claims that RIM sold 500,000 BlackBerry Storm smartphones in the first month. The iPhone had sales of 2.6m units in the first Quarter. The Journal also reports that the marketing campaign for the BlackBerry Storm run up a bill of more than $100 million. The Storm sells for $199.99. With that money spent on advertising, Verizon could have given the BlackBerry Storm away for free to the first 500,000 Storm owners. To give away the Storm for free would ...
BlackBerry Storm customers complain
Crave: The gadget blog —
... Despite a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, the new BlackBerry Storm has gotten off to a shaky start, according to The Wall Street Journal. ...
BlackBerry Storm, she is not doing so well
CrunchGear —
... RIM’s BlackBerry Storm, the biggest lump of crap to come out of Canada since Celine Dion, sold 500,000 units in its first month. Everyone who was everyone basically told RIM that this was a heap but did they listen? Nope. ...
RIM CEO: Buggy OSes "new reality" of smartphones.
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... the same as the old reality. There's a perfectly viable secondary strategy available, which both Apple and Palm have followed with success: work in secret on a phone and an operating system that are excellent in and of themselves, without being compared to the competition. Design them both together; the limbic system to the body. Then work on them while they are done, and then release when you're damn sure you got it right. The world needs less Blackberry Storms and more Pres.
Blackberry Storm is off to a bumpy start [WSJ]
It Finally Comes Out: The Storm Is Not Good Enough
Ubergizmo —
... After riding a wave of hype, it looks like the BlackBerry Storm comes crashing… in customer sentiment. All around me I hear stories of customers returning their Storm, just like Steven Golub in a WSJ story: "I found myself wanting to throw it in the ocean due to my frustration with its overall usability". Yes, that pretty much sums it ...
RIM chief calls buggy BlackBerry Storm launch normal
AppleInsider —
... Published: 06:05 PM EST A late launch and buggy software are described as normal by Resesarch in Motion, but may have led the company to sell just half a million of its first touchscreen BlackBerry in the final weeks of 2008 -- a fifth of what Apple's iPhone 3G reportedly achieved in the same quarter. Anonymous people familiar with Verizon's phone sales tell the Wall Street Journal that about 500,000 Storm devices passed through the carrier's gates in the month after its launch on November 21st. While its sales figures are deemed "promising," the smartphone missed more ...
RIM co-CEO says buggy phones are part of a “new reality”
Tech Ticker —
... with how the device performed. Some issues were addressed in a firmware update in December but many are still missing, like a full QWERTY keypad in portrait mode, which RIM claims to fulfill in future releases.
According to a source, RIM has sold around half a million Storm units since its November launch. It’s quite good as per RIM’s standards but quite underwhelming when you compare it with iPhone 3G, which sold more than 2.4M units in the first quarter of its launch.
[WSJ via MobileBurn]
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It's Official: Blackberry Storm Is No iPhone Killer
Today @ PC World —
... seems to have severely underperformed in customer satisfaction. And now, the latest figures from Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) show that it has underperformed in sales, too. [image] Only half million Blackberry Storm devices were sold in the U.S. since November, according to the Wall Street Journal . During the same holiday period, Apple sold more than two million iPhones, totaling over a quarter of the North American smartphone market. RIM's shares have also ...
RIM shares surge as BlackBerry sales hit record 7.8 million
AppleInsider —
... . This despite claims that the company was hit with an less than fulfilling launch of the Storm in a tough economic climate. Balsillie gave credit for the company's gains to its recent focus on lowering operating expenses and increasing efficiency in order to keep build costs low. He said that carrier inventory "is at the lowest levels we have seen for some time" due to the slowing economy, adding that mobile phone service operators have been slow to replenish inventory.
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The Tao of Mac —
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Blackberry 9500 (Storm)
The Tao of Mac —
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