Say you're North America's largest wireless carrier -- how do you go about burying a product you're about to carry that you secretly wish didn't exist? One creative option would be to opt out of announcing it
when its manufacturer does, then quietly launch it on the same day that you're announcing the phone
you're calling the "must-have device of the year." Tricky, eh? Yeah, sure enough, by all appearances it seems that Verizon doesn't plan on celebrating the arrival of the Storm2 with the same fanfare it gave the Storm, despite the fact that the new device directly addresses the biggest complaints dogging the original model. It's a "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" sort of situation, we suppose. Anyhow, it looks like pricing should come in at $179.99 on contract, though $100 of that comes in the form of a mail-in rebate that you'll get on a prepaid debit card, so you'll actually be laying out close to $300 before taxes when you march into the store on October 28. Hey, look at it this way: at least you can keep refreshing Engadget on your old Storm to learn about the Droid while you're waiting in line for the Storm2, right?
[Thanks, anonymous tipster]
posted Oct 23rd 2009 2:41PM
What!? Could you repeat that? Can you hear me now? Hello?
I'm kind of curious about this thing: could it be that RIM can make something (anything) else than the abysmally boring qwerty candybars it has been pushing for the last decade?
Once upon a time they could rely on their e-mail app to help sell the phones , now with Android's seamless integration of Gmail, Gdocs, Gmaps, Gvoice, and Geverything, and now that apps from HTC, Nokia, and even Win Mob. have come out with apps at the very least as good as RIM's, RIM better try to learn some new tricks and try to demonstrate that what they say about old dogs it's not always necessary true.
The alternative would be to join SE in the club of snug cell phone producers that beliving that they do not need to innovate , find themselves with their noses hitting the (hardened) dust.
I'm kind of curious about this thing: could it be that RIM can make something (anything) else than the abysmally boring qwerty candybars it has been pushing for the last decade?
Once upon a time they could rely on their e-mail app to help sell the phones , now with Android's seamless integration of Gmail, Gdocs, Gmaps, Gvoice, and Geverything, and now that apps from HTC, Nokia, and even Win Mob. have come out with apps at the very least as good as RIM's, RIM better try to learn some new tricks and try to demonstrate that what they say about old dogs it's not always necessary true.
The alternative would be to join SE in the club of snug cell phone producers that beliving that they do not need to innovate , find themselves with their noses hitting the (hardened) dust.
OR download 5.0 on your old storm that is being officially blessed by Verizon and BB. It will be available for download Sunday at 7:00 PM via website download ONLY. No OTA. From what I am hearing around the water cooler, the software should make Storm 1 just as snappy as the Storm 2. Storm 2 is pretty snappy (I played with it for 2 solid days).
Sorry, but "snappy" is already a registered moniker for a separate smartphone, which is also updated from time to time (via a certain music playing software) for extra snappiness.
Sorry, but "snappy" is already a registered moniker for a separate
smartphone, which is also updated from time to time (via a certain
music playing software) for extra snappiness.