Details of this new album can be viewed here where can you see a teaser of this new album, and also sign up to be notified when it has been fully released.

This service provides musical content on tunes played on, and also for upcoming episodes of…

This service is completely free, and can be accessed from your BlackBerry Storm’s browser. Please free to leave any comments on this quality music portal from and BlackBerry.

Telus, another phone carrier that handles Storms, is offering you the chance to win tickets to go see the band No Doubt in concert. I have provided the dates, locations, and texting numbers below. Please note that these texting numbers can only be reached from your Telus phone.

Date	Information
June 16th	Air Canada Center – Toronto, ON Text ‘WINTOR’ to 5588
June 17th	Centre Bell – Montreal, QC Text ‘WINMTL’ to 5588
July 13th	MTS Center – Winnipeg, MB Text ‘WINWPMG’ to 5588
July 15th	Pengrowth Saddledome – Calgary. AB Text ‘WINCAL’ to 5588
July 16th	Rexall Place – Edmonton, AB Text ‘WINEDM’ to 5588
July 18th	General Motors Place – Vancouver, BC Text ‘WINVAN’ to 5588

This contest runs from April 2, 2009 12:00 EST to April 29, 2009 11:59 EST.

• Storm 9500: OS 4.7.106
• Storm 9530: OS 4.7.103

If you are wanting to download these OS leaks, please note that these are unofficial and are not a complete release of an OS, so you may encounter some bugs here and there. If you cannot tolerate bugs on an OS, I would recommend waiting for the full official release. I have specified the downloads for these OS’ below:

This download is for the 9500

This download is for the 9530

Please leave any feedback with regard to these leaked OS’ here.

If you are looking to buy a Storm from a retailer (online/in-store), you will now see that prices are starting to average lower than the release price. I have specified a table below specifying the prices from big name retailers.

If you are looking into buying a Storm now or sometime in the future, now is the best time to get one!

The Storm was designed and manufactured by Research in Motion (RIM) and it technically a part of their 9500 series.  However, the Storm is RIM’s first phone to feature a touch screen input system.  In fact, the Storm doesn’t even include an actual keyboard.  Nearly all input is done via the stylus, although there are several buttons (such as volume control) on the side of the phone.

As a smart phone, the Blackberry Storm does much more than just make and receive phone calls.  It includes the Windows Mobile operating system and a large number of different applications.  You can send and receive emails, surf the web, create a calendar of appointments, read documents and PDF files, and even use the Storm like a MP3 or video player.  The Storm can even be upgraded with new programs and customized with the programs you need.  Of course, the Storm includes all the things that a standard cell phone does, such as a contacts list, ring tones, and a built-in camera.

The camera lets you not only take still images but also records video, too.  This allows users to catch all the action even if they don’t have a camera with them.  Of course, transferring these images and videos to a PC or laptop is very easy to do.

These are just some of the features you’ll find on the Blackberry Storm.  If you’re looking for a smart phone that contains many different options but is not quite as expensive as the iPhone, you might want to visit your local Verizon dealer and take the Storm for a test run.

Reuters reports that hundreds of people were lined up outside of a Verizon store in Manhattan for the launch, and when they sold out of the units, angry Blackberry nerds started getting unruly, so much so that NYPD were called in to quiet the crackberry geeks down:

“More than 200 people had waited at a Verizon store in mid-town Manhattan early in the morning, many of whom were turned away after it ran out of the new phones less than an hour after opening at 8 a.m. The angry customers caused a ruckus and police came to restore order.”

Unruly fans do have the option of ordering the phone from the Verizon website, but they’ll have to wait at least 5-7 days for it, but don’t count on it (like the faithful Google G1 fans who waited weeks when they were told the same thing). Verizon promises that there are enough units to go around, and that a little patience can go a long way:

“Verizon said hundreds of others were in lines outside its stores up and down the U.S. east coast, but added that it had “plenty of phones” and would keep getting more shipments. It declined to give specifics on inventory levels.”

Bottom line – if you want a Blackberry Storm, the safest bet is to probably order one online sooner than later. Yeah, you might find one in smaller towns outside of the city, but I wouldn’t count on it. Blackberry fans are EVERYwhere, and you can bet that with the cheap price ($199) everyone is going to want to grab one up.

(Image partly from ZDNet Blogs)

The BlackBerry Storm is an all-in-one gadget. This smartphone has a browser, camera, media player, SMS, MMS, phone, wireless email, video recording, built-in-GPS, and a resolution color display with built-in speaker phone. It also has an expandable memory comprising of 1GB of onboard memory and 128 MB of flash memory. The BlackBerry Storm integrates with existing personal email account and also with optional new device account. The video playback is smooth and sharp and the large screen ensures the necessary comfort level to your eyes. For any touch-based phone, the true test is typing with ease and BlackBerry Storm doesn’t disappoint you on this front. The clickable touchscreen keypad is user friendly where the keys are indeed hard to miss. You can copy, paste, and select any text from the browser. Gaming had never been so easy and smooth before. There’s enough room for two-handed navigation giving you more liberty to do what you want. The device security looks beyond traditional thinking.

The BlackBerry Storm comes with password protection and screen lock, is FIPS 140-2 compliant, and provides support for AES or Triple DES encryption when integrated with BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The battery life is up to 15 days in standby and up to 5.5 hours during talk time. The display of the BlackBerry Storm includes a high resolution 480 x 360 pixel color display. The light sensing screen and the user selectable font size of the smartphone are other interesting features of the display.