@bazaar_apparatus: No, it's just the old "Installer" logo...haha :D

TimurY

I like how just a couple of the icons are slightly different than the iPhone's

bazaar_apparatus

Smells like a lawsuit to me. In the time of recession, lawyers alone will triumph.

Mag

Oops...Steve will have someone's job for this. Haha

drbles

Do you think they hired Psystar to help them out?

Thillbilli

what about this concept: [concepts.shpe.ro]

a candyBar phone with qwerty but no slide...

shpe11

So... Vodafone's carrier shows up as 'at&t'? Comes jailbroken and everything, awesome!

ttech10

this is a hoax...anyone read the navbar?

ronnsprocket

Is this legit? If so..... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Well the thing was probably developed on a fast track program. So no real OS screen shots were available or built in apps screen shots were ready for the marketing ramp up cycle. Which usually requires 2 to 3 months before launch at the latest. So this tells you that this thing is rushed out the door. Hardware and software.... good luck boys.

Ken_Darrow

@shpe11: so you're constantly flipping the phone over? that's nutty!

supercollider

This has got to be a hoax. Nobody at RIM would even think of doing something like this.

Rondogg96

someone was to lazy to photoshop a legit ui.

citizen024

And you were too lazy to learn the use of the word "too".

indiefab

@indiefab: And, you were too lazy to use the reply feature.

There's a lesson to be learned here. I think it has to do with glass houses.

soggy_cheerio

It's one of the largest brands in the world, why can't you spell Vodafone correctly? Especially since the word is in the image you're using. The ban hammer should be used for contributors too.

AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs

so, there is a spec sheet after your link and clicking on "360° view" [blackberry.vodafone.co.uk] but the above picture is not to be found.

where exactly did this image come from? (direct link please.)

se.blackheart

@praefector: That made no sense at all. . . . I can understand what you say, but the way you said it I cant understand. . .

--Tito--

@praefector: I meant WHO knew, not how knew.

praefector

"The best of the internet" comes from using mobile Safari. And apparently RIM likes that tap-to-enlarge- function. But to one-up Apple, when you enlarge on the Blackberry, not only would it show you the indicator of where your finger would be (like the iPhone tutorial vids), but the screen would enlarge so much that it'd actually cover the Blackberry logo itself. Impressive. A catch though, you'd need to use the now nonexistent Cingular for that function, otherwise you'll be stuck with AT&T. How knew they operated in the UK?? How nice of Vodafone to tell us. Maybe they got lonely for being the UK's largest operator?

(note: I know AT&T bought Cingular, thanks)

praefector

@se.blackheart:
at the bottom of the article:
[blackberry.vodafone.co.uk]

djheath

Pre-2.0....jailbroken?

Good for Crackberry.

Ginsu

Somewhere someone just lost his designing job... I bet RIM suits are already filling up the grave they buried him in.

iGo

@djheath: ummm, no. clicking that link redirects to blackberry.vodafone.co.uk/storm/

at least for me in firefox, safari and ie.

must be cached on some servers.

se.blackheart

OH MY GOD! the iPodPhone inspired this phone?! I never could have told just by looking at it!

Ike_Skelton

@Ike_Skelton: iPodPhone?

Concrete_Particulars

I have the iPhone theme on my BB Pearl and people ask me about it all the time. I can only laugh at this. Even the lock screen on my Pearl says "click to unlock" at the bottom instead of "slide to unlock." It's fun to see people do double takes at my phone.

tempo_kid92

DUUUUUUUHHHHHHH

vgart

@se.blackheart: I didn't see the picture either...what's the reason for this article? Oh yes, comparing a touchscreen blackberry to an iphone, because the iphone is the first phone with a touchscreen...

GTgeek

Not real...look at how fuzzy the image is, where is the direct link?

XgamerM

Wow.. someone learned how to use Photoshop! This reeks of fake.

KLanD

It must have been reprogrammed by Al-Qaeda, or perhaps by Apl-Qaeda!

[gizmodo.com] (In case your don't understand the reference)

LittleJon

The link is redirecting now... they're on to us! Hide!

AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs

I'm gonna say fake until I see something definitive. I thought I had read on Gizmodo here that the Storm was in fact using the standard BB OS, albeit with a different GUI?

Pwnieboy

@Mag: Thank god they don't know the business end of a PC from their collective asses!

Job security baby!

Pwnieboy

@tempo_kid92: I had the same theme on my pearl! awww yeah phone twins.

jamiesoncostello

@supercollider: you still have a virtual keyboard for short texts... but for long typeing text is the qwerty

you don't write many short emails one after another
you don't vizit one site after another (in short term)
you don't sms one after another

but the ideea is that slide takes at least 3mm... yeah... probabli shoul make mine thinner (don't know the inside desin is posible to make a 12mm maybe)

shpe11

Shame I'm so late on this one, but wow... a TECH site, that consistently can't spell Vodafone?

Onouris

are some of you people seriously considering if this is real or not? wow...

hatlandous

haha right on

CharitableNinja

@Ken_Darrow:
The Bold was rushed. The Storm was not.

bryanarr