If you were waiting for the BlackBerry Storm 2 refresh – which was supposed to fix all the wrongs in that ball of SureCrap that is the Storm 2 – you may be out of luck. It looks like RIM is cancelling it.
The Blackberry Torch 9800, a sleek slider with both a touchscreen and a full keyboard, is the first device to come loaded with RIM’s revamped BlackBerry 6 OS. But one interesting bit from the press release suggests that BlackBerry’s older touchscreen devices won’t get the update:
Hey guys and gals, we just got a BlackBerry Storm 2 loaner — and an explanation for the delay. Still interested in a review?
As this spy shot confirms, Blackberry Storm 2 dummy units have started to arrive on Best Buy shelves — and word is that Verizon has received them as well. In other words, the launch is imminent.
We weren’t able to bring you guys a kickass, timely BlackBerry Storm 2 review like we wanted—and we’re sorry about that. Check out a roundup of other reviews below; it’s the least we can do.
Well, everyone knew it was coming, thanks to heavy and repeated leaks, but Walt Mossberg just unofficially officially published a little preview, with photos, of the device. So what do we know that we didn’t know before?
Tucked in a story about RIM trying to keep up in this crazy world of iPhones and Androids is a brief mention that “this week, Verizon and R.I.M. are trying again with a Storm do-over, the Storm 2″. They also mention its redesigned screen, that it actually “gives the user the sensation of pushing a physical button when pressing a number on the glass touch screen”.
