RIM is pushing it hard with the released of their Storm 2. Verizon is getting their hands on it, the phone came up at the T-Mobile Germany website to be released in November and Vodafone will be releasing it as well. RIM worked really hard improving all the glitches their old Storm phone had and it might look like by the review it will be a hit. The device will have JavaScript turned on their browser and with their new OS 5.0.

Here is a link to a few reviews:

1. IntoMobile BlackBerry Storm2 Review
2. CrackBerry BlackBerry Storm2 Review
3. Walt Mossberg Storm2 Review

Let us know your thoughts!

Thanks to CB we now have the head ups that the Storm 2 Accessories arrived yesterday at Best Buy. We are one step closer to getting our hands on the new Storm 2. This image refers to as the Blackberry 9550 Odin (Storm II) . The Blackberry Storm 2 is expected on October 25 hopefully that would be the day they will release it! We will keep you inform!

If you guys run by a Best Buy and have some images, Let us know! We will gladly add it to the site.

Hey! Another OS leaked update! now the winner is the BlackBerry Storm 9500.For those 9500 Storm owners that felt left out when the leaked news of the OS update 5.0.0.230 for the 9530, Now you got the chance to get your hands in the great features 5.0 has to offer.

Warning: As said before, this is a unofficial release please use caution when downloading leaked files. If you choose to install, do so at your own risk and only if you’re comfortable in the process of upgrading and downgrading your device software.

Instructions courtesy of BlackBerryOS on how to install OS Update 5.0.0.230

Download OS Update 5.0.0.230 for the BlackBerry Storm

It seems that BerryReview found a great article that goes over some really cool BlackBerry Storm shortcuts.

Keyboard shortcuts

• To switch back and forth between multitap and suretype while on portrait mode, simply hit the menu and navigate to the options to enable either one;
• to bring up the keyboard, swipe your finger upward till the middle, and to hide it, downwards from the top;
• to type special characters such as “ñ”, tap the “n” letter, but don’t click it; a menu of options will appear and give you the special characters, so you can just select your option and click it;
• to lock in the number options, hold down the “123” key for a few seconds and it should remain locked until you hide it; to unlock it, hold the “123” key again;
• to lock in the capital letter mode, hold the “shift/arrow up” for a few seconds; to unlock it, repeat that step;
• to change text input languages, hold the Storm in landscape mode, bring up the virtual keyboard and click the “Globe” key found directly to the left of the Space key. Next, scroll to the desired language, highlight it and click the Storm’s screen to select.

NAVIGATING WITH THE STORM

• Scrolling through messages/Web page: to scroll downward, place your finger lightly at the bottom of the screen, (don’t click) and drag upwards; to scroll down a full screen, slide your finger rapidly;
• to scroll up, place your finger lightly at the top of the screen and drag down; to scroll fast, just drag your finger down rapidly;
• zoom: to zoom in a picture or Webpage, tap the screen lightly twice; to zoom out, hit the escape button;
• pan: just place your finger lightly on the screen without clicking and move it in the direction you desire;
• switching through active apps: hold the Blackberry menu button until a ribbon of active apps appear; tap the ribbon and scroll to select the application you are looking for.

Text & Messaging

• Copy & Paste – to copy and paste text from one location to another, lightly touch a finger to the Storm’s screen at the start of the text you wish to copy and hold it in place; with your other finger, touch the end where you wish to copy, this highlights the text; then hit the menu key, scroll to copy and follow the same steps to paste;
• to quickly search your messages for all mailings from a specific contact, find a message from that contact in your Messages application and then gently hold a finger on screen directly over the contact’s name; after a few seconds, all messages from that contact will appear on screen;
• to delete multiple messages at once, open your Messages app and gently hold a finger on a message near the top of the list you want to delete; keep that finger in place and touch another message further down the list; all the messages between your two fingers will be highlighted; from there, you can click the Delete Messages key at the bottom or the screen to do away with the selected messages, or you can continue to select older messages by keeping one finger on the selected messages and scrolling down.

Source: BerryReview

Verizon’s website is showing an online order shipment date by December 8th for the BlackBerry Storm. Before it used to be December 15th so this is all good news. The listing on the site still shows the Storm as having limited availability. For those who though they won’t be getting their smartphones before the 15th it seems it will ship one week earlier. Lets hope avaliabity is something they can keep up too.

Keep an eye on the OS download when you get your phone. Hopefully we will see an update somewhere is the next 2 or 3 weeks.

The guys at BoyGenius got their hands on a BestBuy print speculating that the new BlackBerry Storm will be released November 16th. Now also the guys at Berry Reporter got their hands on another screenshot to confirm it. It seems that the retail price for the BlackBerry Storm will be $699. This should be way less with a 2 year contract.

Check out the images.

We love finding out stuff!

During Apple’s quarterly conference call last week, CEO Steve Jobs announced that Apple’s iPhone outsold RIM’s BlackBerry devices during Q3. RIM reported selling 6.1 million BlackBerrys, while Apple announced sales of 6.9 million iPhones. Not much difference if you ask me.

We will see when BlackBerry Storm gets released! Can’t wait to get mine. Screw my IPhone.