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pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"Cellphones/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://blackberry.vodafone.co.uk/storm/specifications/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/bb_storm_voda_iphone.jpg" //abr //div span style="float: right; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 4px;"script digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Blackberry_Storm_Runs_iPhone_OS'; /scriptscript src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"/script/spanWe can't put our finger on it, but there's something vaguely familiar about this new Storm 9500.br /br /emIn case you're reading this after these images get taken down -- which they inevitably will be -- this was the official marketing material posted tonight by RIM's Storm launch partner, Vodafone./embr /br /[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]pa href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/08/vodafones-blackberry-storm-art-department-all-soon-to-be-fired/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emVodafone's BlackBerry Storm art department all soon to be fired/em/a/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://blackberry.vodafone.co.uk/storm/specifications/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/08/vodafones-blackberry-storm-art-department-all-soon-to-be-fired/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1335972/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/08/vodafones-blackberry-storm-art-department-all-soon-to-be-fired/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?a=7kHAQ9"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?i=7kHAQ9" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=BpsEm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=BpsEm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=tnqqm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=tnqqm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/414536313" height="1" width="1"/

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"Cellphones/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/handhelds/" rel="tag"Handhelds/a/pdiv align="center"span suggestions="Blackberry,Black Berry,Black-Berry,Blackberry's,Blackbeard" class="misspell"/spanimg vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/blackberry-storm-hands-1.jpg" alt="" /br //div span suggestions="Rim's,RI M's,RI-M's,Rom's,Rime's" class="misspell"span style="float: right; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 4px;"script digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/First_hands_on_with_RIM_s_iPhone_killing_BlackBerry_Storm'; /scriptscript src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"/script/spanRIM's/span a little late to the touchscreen party, but comes bearing goodies. The a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/08/blackberry-storm-bows-comes-next-month-to-verizon-and-vodafone/"span suggestions="Blackberry,Black Berry,Black-Berry,Blackberry's,Blackbeard" class="misspell"BlackBerry/span Storm/a is a beast of a phone in more ways than one. Fronted by a meaty, high-resolution touchscreen with an innovative clicking mechanism, the phone is easily the prettiest by RIM to date. There's a brushed metal back, a beautiful new OS interface, and enough radios to give your span suggestions="grand kids,grand-kids,grandads,granddads,granddad's" class="misspell"grandkids/span cancer (EV-DO Rev. A, quad-band span suggestions="GM,SM,GS,GSA,GEM" class="misspell"GSM/span, Europe-friendly span suggestions="HS PA,HS-PA,SPA,HASP,HOSP" class="misspell"HSPA/span, GPS, span suggestions="Blue tooth,Blue-tooth,Bucktooth,Bluet,Bluets" class="misspell"Bluetooth/span 2.0 with A2DP, though sadly no span suggestions="Wife,Fifi,Wini,Wiki" class="misspell"WiFi/span). But the real test of a phone is usability, not flash. Check out our impressions after the break.br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/blackberry-storm-hands-on/"BlackBerry Storm hands-on/a/strong/pa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/blackberry-storm-hands-on/1068767/"img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/storm-hands-1002_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/blackberry-storm-hands-on/1068753/"img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/storm-hands-1003_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/blackberry-storm-hands-on/1068743/"img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/storm-hands-1004_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/blackberry-storm-hands-on/1068760/"img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/storm-hands-1005_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/blackberry-storm-hands-on/1068739/"img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/storm-hands-1006_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divpa href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/08/blackberry-storm-9500-hands-on/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emBlackBerry Storm 9500 hands-on/em/a/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/08/blackberry-storm-9500-hands-on/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1335817/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/08/blackberry-storm-9500-hands-on/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?a=92CP61"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?i=92CP61" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=K5q0m"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=K5q0m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Tg9gm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Tg9gm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/414460789" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"Cellphones/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/handhelds/" rel="tag"Handhelds/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.verizonwireless.com/storm"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2008/10/blackberry-storm-ofc01-sm.jpg" alt="" //abr //div A storm's arrival typically isn't something to celebrate, but we're going to make a notable exception here seeing how the a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/storm"BlackBerry Storm/a is less of a destructive weather pattern and more of an incredibly hot smartphone -- arguably a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/category/rim"RIM's/a hottest to date. Fit to its business-savvy roots, the long-rumored handset comes equipped with the most comprehensive global roaming capabilities of virtually any wireless device you'll find anywhere, featuring EV-DO Rev. A, quadband EDGE, and 2100MHz HSPA for Europe. Beyond that, the Storm becomes RIM's very first touchscreen phone, mounting a 3.26-inch 480 x 360 glass display on a unique clickable surface so that the entire thing can be pressed downwards -- just like a real button -- for tactile feedback when making selections. It includes a full HTML finger-navigable browser, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint editing capabilities, Bluetooth 2.0, 1GB of on-board storage with an 8GB microSD card bundled in the box, 3.5mm headphone jack, automatic orientation and ambient lighting sensors, and a 3.2-megapixel autofocus cam with dedicated flash, making it a legitimate jack-of-all-trades that seems likely to be able to handle even the most chaotic personal and professional lives users can throw its way. It'll allegedly do 15 days of standby or 5.5 hours of talk time on either GSM or CDMA networks. No word on pricing yet -- we're told all will be revealed "in the coming weeks" -- but it'll launch on both Verizon and Vodafone in November.br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/blackberry-storm-bows-comes-next-month-to-verizon-and-vodafone-1/"BlackBerry Storm bows, comes next month to Verizon and Vodafone/a/strong/pa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/blackberry-storm-bows-comes-next-month-to-verizon-and-vodafone-1/1084285/"img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/blackberry-storm-ofc01_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/blackberry-storm-bows-comes-next-month-to-verizon-and-vodafone-1/1084284/"img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/blackberry-storm-ofc02_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/blackberry-storm-bows-comes-next-month-to-verizon-and-vodafone-1/1084283/"img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/blackberry-storm-ofc03_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/blackberry-storm-bows-comes-next-month-to-verizon-and-vodafone-1/1084282/"img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/blackberry-storm-ofc00_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divh6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.verizonwireless.com/stormRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/08/blackberry-storm-bows-comes-next-month-to-verizon-and-vodafone/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1335889/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/08/blackberry-storm-bows-comes-next-month-to-verizon-and-vodafone/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?a=16PzQF"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?i=16PzQF" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=dj6Km"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=dj6Km" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=i4Ohm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=i4Ohm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/414460790" height="1" width="1"/

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a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7658417.stm"Icelandic internet bank Icesave has closed its doors and told the UK chancellor that it would not be honoring the accounts of British customers./a br / With some 350,000 UK citizens investing over #0163;4.5Bn, the Icelandic savings protection scheme has quot;no intention of honouring their obligations here,quot; according to Chanceller Alistair Darling. There have been rumours of instability at Icesave since a href="http://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2008/04/01/icesave-how-safe-are-your-savings-facts-and-myths/"early this year/a. The British Government, on the same day as announcing a a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/07/banking.economy1"#0163;50Bn 'partial nationalisation' of major British banks/a, has agreed quot;in these exceptional circumstances, we will stand behind those depositors so they can get their money backquot;. Questions still a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7657630.stm"abound/a however.

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