Business Bytes
November 20, 2008

Blackberry Storm Watch

 

You likely won't see people camped out in lawn chairs (for one thing it's November and too cold) to purchase one, but Blackberry Storm is hitting shelves of Verizon stores tomorrow with much hype regardless.

It's the first touchscreen Blackberry with built-in GPS, Mp3 and html web browser (and yes, it does the turn it sideways thing).

It's also priced at $199 competitive with the iPhone and the Google Android phone.

Am i missing something? The Blackberry Bold launched earlier this month through AT&T stores. It prices out between $299 up to more than $650.

All I can say is poor President-elect Obama. Looks like he'll have to take a pass on both.


Renee Oricchio

Renee Oricchio is a technology writer and former supervising news producer for CNN Financial News. She has been covering the computer industry since 1987.