Blackberry Storm 9500 Unlocked Phone with 3.15 Mega pixel Camera (Black) | 
| Brand: BlackBerry
Category: Wireless
List Price: $499.99
Buy New: $279.99
as of 7/31/2010 23:14 CDT details
You Save: $220.00 (44%)
New (8) Refurbished (2) from $229.99
Seller: TCorp
Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 349
Media: Wireless Phone Accessory
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.6 x 2.5 x 4.4
MPN: 9500
Model: Blackberry Storm 9500
UPC: 843163043206
EAN: 0843163048348
ASIN: B002UD4LQ4
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Features:
| • | 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 3G Network HSDPA 2100 | | • | TFT capacitive touchscreen, 65K colors Size 360 x 480 pixels, 3.25 inches - Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate | | • | 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, video, LED flash | | • | - Built-in GPS - A-GPS function - BlackBerry maps - Document editor - Java - Media player MP3/WMA/AAC+ - 3.5 mm audio output jack - | | • | Video player MPEG4/3gp/H.264/WMV - Organizer - Calculator - Voice dial - Built-in handsfree - Voice memo |
|
| Accessories:
|
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Press and Be Impressed
With a unique touch screen and cutting-edge multimedia capabilities, the Blackberry Storm smart phone makes a great impression as you travel across town or to almost any corner of the world.
Conveniently Switch To Calls
In addition to the SurePress touch-screen interface, the familiar Blackberry phone buttons are at the bottom of the device. This ensures an effortless transition from using the smart phone features of your device to taking a call on it-- without compromising the information currently displayed on your screen.
Camera and Video Recording - Snap and Send
Take sharp, print-quality pictures using the built-in 3.2 mega pixel camera. With auto-focus and auto-flash features built in, the BlackBerry Storm smart phone has everything you need to shoot like a pro! Plus, with the video camera function, you can capture all the sound and action!
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 55
 Great!!...Until you use it July 27, 2010
Daniel Ladd (New York, USA)
Attention New York, there is a severe storm warning for your area, please seek shelter immediately!
This is what I heard as I walked out of the store with my shiny new blackberry storm (the day it came out of course), and I once again was fooled by the weatherman in my head. Not only was there no storm, there was a heat wave that came directly from my face as it exploded in disgust at my new purchase.
I have had the storm for two years now, because thats how long Verizon makes you feel guilty about buying a load of crap before you can do it all over again. I am getting a the new Droid X next week, so I figured I might as well flatter you all with the truth on this device before I kick it to the curb to complain about the next one.
The Screen
OMG OMG OMG the screen is a button!!! Has anyone realized the reason that no other phone has this feature is because it is not necessary? The one good thing that came out of this is that they made the screen just small enough that all the special pocket lint I love to save can store itself between the edge of the screen and body of the phone for safe keeping. I bought toothpicks for the first time not to clean my teeth...but to clear out space in my phone in order to store newer lint.
Non-screen related buttons
So I was walking around a small store one day when I hear one of my favorite songs come on the radio. I am singing along walking up to the cash register and I say to the guy who is staring at me like I just swallowed a doorknob, "hey this is a great song, glad you guys play good music in your store". Well he politely turns to me and says "Hey Jacka$$, the music is playing from your pants". This is officially the only time in my life that my phone has actively embarrassed me. See there is a button at the top of the phone that mutes your music...well it also plays your music, and of course the one thing they made right on the phone is the crazy loud speaker, so I quickly learned to keep no music on my phone. Just to add to the story, I also couldn't turn the music off right away because the only other button on the top is a screen lock, which sometimes worked and sometimes didn't so you have to mess with it.
Front buttons
My phone has a collection of buttons...let me rephrase. My phone has a collection of buttons that no longer are part of the phone. The four buttons on the front of the phone are just placed well enough to rip off when you stick your phone in your pocket. They did fix this on the storm two, but that came out lets see....two months after the first failure? At least if I bought an Iphone they may have replaced it for falling apart, and I would have enjoyed watching steve jobs blame his customers again for them improperly using his crappy product.
Side buttons
"Say a command"...."say a command"....get used to it, the phone says it all the time. One of the side buttons brings up the voice calling feature, but only brings it up when I am a) In class, b) trying to impress a lady with my thoughts on the bubonic plague, or c) Trying to sleep off a long night. Luckily you can change the button to do something else, I choose nothing, as I did with the other three side buttons. One button repeatedly took pictures of the inside of my pockets...which is cool but everyone stopped "Liking" them on facebook after I posted the first 100. The other controls the volume...or changes the song, whichever you aren't trying to accomplish it will do for you.
OS
To first access the phone turn it on, and come back tomorrow when it has finished waking up. I clocked it, it takes 2 minutes for my computer to boot up, and 7 minutes for my blackberry, anyone else see an issue? I know that some people need to take it slow so they don't choke on any instant excitement, but I would rather take my chances. Once it is loaded and passed the "Security Test" that it always does, the phone turns on, and if you haven't broken the hardware yet you can begin playing with the OS. It is the basic blackberry os, nothing special, except this awesome new feature that if your hands are damp, or your sweating from blackberry induced phone frustration, when you go to choose a menu item...it decides that you must in fact be blind and that you really want the menu item on the other side of the screen. For me it seems to constantly choose the "network" option, I think this is RIM's way of telling you it is verizon's fault.
There are way too many issues with the os to go into detail about so I figure I will leave you with a quick wrap-up rap.
So you got your new crackberry for a cell phone fix
but didn't expect a swift kick to the ****
with a hundred pounds of hardware in the palm of your hand
you'd expect a brilliant show but you have to understand
the phone was made by a monkey you may find at the zoo
the os was programmed by a hippie snorting glue
my contract is two years I don't know what to do!!
if you want high blood pressure this phone is for you
~DJ DAN - ex-crackberry addict
 Run. Do not walk away from this phone. July 26, 2010
Grayson Hill (Denver, CO)
I've had mine for two years now, mostly because I'm the suffering sort.
This hateful device is difficult to describe. Nothing - nothing - works well on this device. The gyroscope is unresponsive. The touch interface is unresponsive. The actual buttons lag. The navigation is clumsy, ugly and inefficient at all levels - whether you're on the phone or trying to get to it. It keeps two records of everything with its catch-all "Messages" category, which causes you to spend absurd amounts of time picking through the notes deleting and keeping what you want.
The system is glutted with bloatware. Worse, still, RIM keeps packing junk on to the phone whenever you are gullible enough to update it.
Behold! I just looked and now have NFL Mobile and YouTube mobile. I did not ask for these things. Did not request them. Why do I have them? Because RIM believes that what I really want to do with my device is f' around when all I - like the vast majority of people - want to do is make phone calls and check my email reliably.
As a result of its colossal, horrible, malevolent design, it is slow to respond to anything - except the alarm. That works fine. Shutting it off is a little trickier however, since the usability commandos over at RIM put all of the buttons right on top of one another.
Powering down does not solve its problems. In fact, it takes some effort to get the device to even acknowledge that it has been given the command to power down. (Powering up is a bit of a mystery, too.) Pulling the battery out does not solve its problems.
When I took the phone over to Verizon to have it examined by the sales rep who sold it to me, his comment was, "Wow, yours works better than mine" which is tantamount to saying, "you think you've got it bad, my ED takes two Viagra to solve."
In fact, the only way to solve this device's many problems is to buy something else.
 Adquisicion del black berry storm 9500 July 22, 2010
ellidersoy
es muy bueno el celular, de echo ha sido la mejor invercion que he realizado
Terrible phone July 11, 2010
Cor Bader (Seattle, WA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Blackberry is trying hard to play catch up with other smart phones. This phone would be just fine except the touch screen is probably the worst experience ever. It doesn't work, it wigs out on me ALL THE TIME. I've updated my phone to the latest firmware, I've also tried different touch screen settings. It still is total crap! Scrolling through email becomes a chore, in fact everything you try and do (something simple like txting) takes 10 times as long because the keys do not work properly. It will give you an awful experience and you'll feel like tossing your phone in the ocean.
BB's are overpriced and dated. The company is slipping fast. Stay away from the phone and any 4 or 5 star reviews on this page.
Love My Storm2 9550 July 9, 2010
Jennifer S. (NC, USA)
A few months ago, I upgraded from my BlackBerry Pearl 8130, and decided to go with the Storm2. I alllmost went to a Droid phone, but the Storm2 really caught my eye, and I'm already comfortable with the BlackBerry user interface. So, with that in mind, I ordered my S2 online via the Verizon website, and figured if I didn't like I could always swap it for another phone within 30 days.
Honestly, I didn't need 30 days to decide that the Storm2 was the phone for me. I liked my Pearl 8130, but it did have a few annoying things about it. Websites that needed java were a bit sketchy with my Pearl; it would request to enable Java and I'd allow that, but then the site still wouldn't work correctly half the time. I don't have that issue with my S2. Also, the browser speed is so much better on the S2. With my Pearl, I had actually added the Opera Mini browser because the native browser was so slow. I don't even need Opera Mini on my S2; the browser is that much faster.
The SurePress will take some getting used to if you've never had a touchscreen phone before (I hadn't), but I was typing like a pro after only a couple days.
All in all, I don't really have any complaints about the S2. I really enjoy using it, and it's a very functional phone. There are tons of fun, useful apps out there and the S2 has plenty of memory to accommodate your aftermarket apps.
Showing reviews 1-5 of 55
|
|
|
