Blackberry Thunder - real or hoax

[willi...@aol.com]

Does anyone know if the Blackberry Thunder is real or a hoax? I may
have overlooked it, but wasn't able to find anything about it on the
RIM products page: http://www.rim.com/products/handhelds/index.shtml.

Here are few links about the Blackberry Thunder:
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/05/13/blackberry-thunder-the-touchscreen-blackberry-weve-all-been-waiting-for/
http://crackberry.com/exclusive-first-live-pics-blackberry-thunder
http://blackberrysync.com/2008/07/blackberry-thunder-exclusive-shots-meet-the-media-player/

[Guy Macon]

willi...@aol.com wrote:

>Does anyone know if the Blackberry Thunder is real or a hoax? I may
>have overlooked it, but wasn't able to find anything about it on the
>RIM products page: http://www.rim.com/products/handhelds/index.shtml.

It's real, but it is only called the BlackBerry Thunder if you buy
from Vodafone or Rogers. If you buy from Verizon, it is called the
BlackBerry 9530 Storm.

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/08/the_touchscreen.html
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/blackberry-storm-9530-for-verizon-gets-boxed/

The real question is whether it will make any inroads into the
iPhone market. There are a bunch of little gadgets that imitate
the iPod, but none of them have realy hurt ipod sales. Will the
same be true here?

--
Guy Macon
<http://www.GuyMacon.com/>

[willi...@aol.com]

On Sep 6, 2:15 am, Guy Macon <"http://www.guymacon.com/"@-.-> wrote:
>
> It's real, but it is only called the BlackBerry Thunder if you buy
> from Vodafone or Rogers. If you buy from Verizon, it is called the
> BlackBerry 9530 Storm.
>

> The real question is whether it will make any inroads into the
> iPhone market. There are a bunch of little gadgets that imitate
> the iPod, but none of them have realy hurt ipod sales. Will the
> same be true here?
>

I am being naive here, but what features does iPhone have that the
other touchscreen phones don't?

[Guy Macon]

willi...@aol.com wrote:

>Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/> wrote:
>>
>> It's real, but it is only called the BlackBerry Thunder if you buy
>> from Vodafone or Rogers. If you buy from Verizon, it is called the
>> BlackBerry 9530 Storm.
>>
>> The real question is whether it will make any inroads into the
>> iPhone market. There are a bunch of little gadgets that imitate
>> the iPod, but none of them have realy hurt ipod sales. Will the
>> same be true here?
>>
>I am being naive here, but what features does iPhone have that the
>other touchscreen phones don't?

In my opinion, that's the wrong question. What features does the
iPod have that the other audio players don't? The iPod doesn't
dominate the small audio player market by having more features,
so why couldn't the same be true in the case of the iPhone?
This war will be won by whoever has the best overall client-
server system (all the other parts of the system that the phone
communicates with) as it was with the iPod and iTunes.