BlackBerry Storm comes to Vodafone today -- take cover immediately

Just how badly do you want a Storm? Badly enough to pull up your long-established roots, fly for half a day, and take residence in a foreign land thousands of miles from home? For Americans who absolutely cannot wait another week for RIM's first touchscreen device to launch on domestic soil, that's the only option; for Brits on Vodafone, though, heaven is but a single shop trip away. The BlackBerry Storm has now officially launched in the Old Country and can be had for as little as zilch on a Voda plan, so do let us know how your experiences go, yeah? Your yankee friends thank you in advance.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 14th 2008 3:56PM]

Hey its not all good here in the UK, us poor Voda employees have to wait till 1st Dec to get ours :)

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 14th 2008 6:24PM]

voda who??are they still on? o2 ftw

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 15th 2008 8:10AM]

I preordered mine, when to the Vodafone Store at 9:30 am and they had sold them all. I have to say, the screen is amazing! alot better than typing on my iPod Touch :D.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 14th 2008 7:43PM]

So the question is, can I buy a voda storm and put an att sim card in it?

[NeshyD Posted Nov 14th 2008 9:59PM]

Well it'll most likely be locked to Vodafone UK. You'll need to get a sim-unlock code so you can use your AT&T card.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 15th 2008 5:11AM]

Got one yesterday, very disappointed with it. The top menu is nice and graphical, drill any further and it's all text based.. Its' scrolling is slow to respond and I have seen more timers than required for boiling enough eggs for a spoon race..

Was going to sell my iPhone 1G but now I am torn... However my g/f (not a techie) loves it..

[PEZ Posted Nov 15th 2008 8:31AM]

I don't know man, that thing looks SICK. Kind of like a the big-ass of a luscious Latina chick on some free porn site. Yes, indeed.

If this comes to Tmo, I just might park my G1 to test its ass out. I like the wider screenage, and the new OS is spiffy ridiculous.

Come to parpar.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2008 5:19AM]

My only fault with it is the lack of harware acceleration leaving the scrolling to be abit choppy.

Click screen seems a bit of a gimmick but t9 typing for 1 handed typing is a boost over the iphone. All it needs now is an app market

[martyk Posted Nov 16th 2008 6:08PM]

If you're interested, my commets on iphone vs storm, after testing both.

http://livefromthewire.posterous.com/blackberry-storm-vs-iphone-my

If not, sorry for spam :((

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 19th 2008 4:08PM]

After getting excited upon receiving my personal invitation to the Nov 17-21 private event, I couldn't wait to head in to see the Blackberry Storm, featured on the front of the mailing. I've been reading everything I could about this phone, and was looking forward to seeing it up close and personal.

After waiting a few days, in case there were crowds in the store, I decided to drive into my Manassas, VA store today (11/19) to have a look myself. Lo and behold, there were no Storm's in the store! The personnel there told me that they thought it MIGHT be in by the 21st. I suppose I should have called, but when the mailing clearly says Nov 17-21, you'd think that halfway through the 'private' event, that they'd have phones in the store...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 20th 2008 12:24AM]

You should probably READ the flyer. I received the same flyer and nowhere on it does it say that the Storm is available on 11/19. It does, however, detail special prices on some phones for this week only.