If you’ve got a BlackBerry Storm you’ve got a reason to be happy today: Verizon has just announced that their VCAST Video service will now be available on the first ever BlackBerry Touchscreen! It’ll cost you $10/month but if you’re really down with video on your mobile, its a great service.

We’ll let Verizon’s Press Release [...]

I spy a BlackBerry Storm 2:

Are you feelin’ it? By the way the phone model is 9550 and its codename is Odin… in case you care!

Verizon Wireless has been incredibly successful with their “Buy One Get One Free” BlackBerry promotions so why not stick with what works? They are, only this time they’re making the deal even sweeter. When you buy any BlackBerry such as the Tour ($200), Storm ($99), Flip ($79) or Curve ($49) you’ll be able to get [...]

Nothing says Official quite like a Press Release, and that is exactly what Verizon Wireless sent to the VV.org inbox today, touting the new BlackBerry as an enterprise worthy phone used by the likes of University elite. Read the full press release below:

08/11/2009
BASKING RIDGE, NJ — The BlackBerry® Tour™ from Verizon Wireless lets corporations equip [...]

Unfortunately Verizon Wireless customers are all too familiar with having Wi-Fi removed from their smartphone privileges. It seems Verizon would rather have customers pay for data plans than conveniently use Wi-Fi, but the times are changing. The BlackBerry Aries is proof.

Not only will the BlackBerry Aries 8530 have Wi-Fi, but it MIGHT be the first [...]

Something fishy is going on in Verizon’s computer system. Right after the BlackBerry Storm where you might THINK that the word “BlackBerry Storm 2″ should appear there is a “BlackBerry Thunder” listed:

I can only think of 2 possible reasons:

Consumers have associated the name “Storm” with “Annoying” so they want to try and start on a [...]

A lucky little BlackBerry addict got a chance to play with the BlackBerry Storm 2 but thankfully he didn’t keep it all to himself – he shared in video form:

Among the important things to note are:

This is beta hardware and software so changes will likely occure
This version does NOT have Wi-Fi but that could change
Hardware [...]

Rumor. Rumor. Rumor…. That is what this is. But rumors are sometimes true (and always fun) and when they include a laundry list of new phones our attention becomes undivided. The following mid-range phones have been tipped off as “coming soon” from a PhoneArena tipster who they mention has previously been right about such rumors [...]

Nevermind the fact that the majority of BlackBerry Storm owners are pretty fed up with their phones and forget that the BlackBerry Storm 2 is probably on its way in the next 2 or 3 months. Now that you’ve got those important details removed from your memory, perhaps you’ll be enticed by Verizon’s move to [...]

If you have been following RIM or Verizon at all lately it will come as no surprise that the Storm 2 (model number 9550) is coming up quick. So many pictures have leaked recently that we are beginning to believe it is a joke, we wonder if RIM is intentionally doing it.

The latest “leak” is [...]