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Verizon touts 1 million BlackBerry Storms sold to date
Engadget —
Well, it looks like the BlackBerry faithful have come out in full force to snag "Verizon's best-selling device," after all. Despite RIM's nightmarish "new reality," of half-baked firmware and broken dreams, Verizon has made it known that the latest 'Berry has grown to a full 1 million units sold between the November 21st launch and the end of January. Apparently the ...
Verizon touts 1 million BlackBerry Storms sold to date
Engadget Mobile —
Filed under: RIM, Verizon Wireless
Well, it looks like the BlackBerry faithful have come out in full force to snag "Verizon's best-selling device," after all. Despite RIM's nightmarish "new reality," of half-baked firmware and broken dreams, Verizon has made it known that the latest 'Berry has grown to a full 1 million units sold between the ...
BlackBerry Storm already sold 1 million says Verizon
I4U News —
... News BlackBerry Storm already sold 1 million says Verizon Verizon posted some good earnings for last quarter. According to Computer World the carrier said that the BlackBerry Storm smart phone has already sold 1 million units through January 2009. Sale of the BlackBerry Storm started on November 21st. Yesterday we ran a story that features a WSJ reported number of ...
AT&T Winning Smart Phone Battle With Verizon
Cult of Mac —
AT&T Wednesday deemed Apple’s iPhone 3G a “success,” reporting adding 1.9 ...
Reviled by Reviewers, BlackBerry's Storm Rages On
Wired: Gadget Lab —
Two months ago Research In Motion released Storm, its first touchscreen phone, to some of the harshest reviews that a phone has seen in recent times. Yet sales of the device tell a different story.
The BlackBerry Storm is doing pretty well, to the tune of one million sold since its launch on the Verizon's network.
That may not be success on the scale of the iPhone, which sold one million units in just a weekend, but it is a respectable showing. Storm's success is comparable to the much-anticipated first phone based on Google's Android operating system, the HTC G1 phone from T-Mobile. It's also far more than you might expect from a device that ...
Verizon Wireless sees 1 million BlackBerry Storms sold to date!
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
Regardless of hardware niggles and craptastic firmware, RIM’s BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Storm has apparently been tearing it up on Verizon (NYSE: VZ)’s network. Verizon Wireless today announced that they’ve gone Platinum with the BlackBerry Storm - the leading US wireless carrier has sold an impressive 1 million Storm units since its launch last November!
The number, while impressive, might have been higher had Verizon managed to pull off the BlackBerry Storm launch smoothly. Alas, buggy firmware and limited stock on hand may have kept Verizon from pushing out more Storm handsets.
But, with Storm firmware updates leaking out to the interwebs on ...
Verizon Has Sold 1 Million Blackberry Storms
mocoNews —
... ). We're assuming we won't find out about the number of returns next quarter….ComputerWorld also reported the sales total. ...
Verizon: Would You Call 1 Million BlackBerry Storms Sold A 'Flop?'
ChannelWeb Complete Feed —
... , Verizon glossed over the Storm, saying sales were strong, but not offering any concrete figures to illustrate just how strong they were. In response to the Journal , Verizon battled back, telling Computer World that 1 million BlackBerry Storms have been sold in just the first two months. That's still not Apple-size sales, but certainly strong numbers. The Storm generated a great deal of hype leading up to its Nov. 21 release but was unable to capture many of the BlackBerry faithful because of its lack of a built-in QWERTY keyboard, something many BlackBerry users see ...
Verizon: Would You Call 1 Million BlackBerry Storms Sold A 'Flop?'
The Channel Wire —
It seems Verizon Wireless is on the defensive and wants to make sure everyone knows that the BlackBerry Storm, Research In Motion's first-ever touch-screen smart phone, isn't the flop several news organizations made it out to be. Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal ...
BlackBerry Storm Costs More To Make Than iPhone
The Channel Wire —
As the battle for smartphone dominance rages between the BlackBerry Storm and the Apple iPhone 3G, one research firm has found that Research In Motion's first-ever touch screen smartphone costs more to produce than its chief rival. iSuppli recently performed a teardown on the BlackBerry Storm , which essentially means taking apart the device and investigating its components, and found it costs roughly $203 to manufacture the BlackBerry Storm. That $203 consists of $186 for components and other material and about $16 for manufacturing. The total price to manufacture the Storm clocks in at about $27 more than it costs RIM to produce the BlackBerry Bold 9000, its high-end 3G ...
BlackBerry Storm Costs More To Make Than iPhone
ChannelWeb Complete Feed —
As the battle for smartphone dominance rages between the BlackBerry Storm and the Apple iPhone 3G, one research firm has found that Research In Motion's first-ever touch screen smartphone costs more to produce than its chief rival. iSuppli recently performed a teardown on the BlackBerry Storm , which essentially means taking apart the device and investigating its components, and found it costs roughly $203 to manufacture the BlackBerry Storm. That $203 consists of $186 for components and other material and about $16 for manufacturing. The total price to manufacture the Storm clocks in at about $27 more than it costs RIM to produce the BlackBerry Bold 9000, its high-end 3G ...
