Kevin over at CrackBerry.com posted this weeks edition of Talk Up a Storm, Verizon’s internal mailer that goes out on Wednesdays to employees to give them information about that upcoming BlackBerry Storm.
It looks like the BlackBerry Storm is a World Phone…
Talk Up a Storm - Connected at Home & Abroad
When we say the BlackBerry Storm will take the world by storm, we mean it. Storm is our newest global phone. Combined with our Global Services, the Storm will enable our customers to easily stay connected in the U.S. and around the globe. Here are five need-to-know facts about the Storm’s global features:
1. With the Blackberry Storm customers can enjoy the nation’s most reliable wireless network at home and have access to more than 205 voice and 150 data destinations worldwide.
2. With the inclusion of quad band capability, customers will benefit from expanded global coverage, adding more than 10 destinations across South America and the Caribbean, including voice and data service in Argentina, Chile and Colombia and data service in the Bahamas.
3. With the inclusion of UMTS capability, voice and data service will be available in Japan. High speed data service will also be available in major travel destinations such as the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Italy.
4. The BlackBerry Storm features Network Auto Selection which allows customers to experience seamless use in all supported destinations, regardless of network type. The BlackBerry Storm also offers Assisted Dialing, which will help take the guess work out of calling internationally. Customers simply select a name from their contact list and the Storm will automatically apply the proper exit code and dialing string.
5. All Blackberry Storm devices will come pre-installed with a SIM card and include our Global Literature Kit - it’s never been easier to activate a global customer!
To learn more about our International Services, go to www.verizonwireless.com/vzglobal
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jmk 10.03.08 at 8:47 am
The Storm is looking more and more like a winner, assuming the touch screen works approximately as well as the iPhone’s and assuming that they allow landscape typing in all apps! Here’s hoping that VZ doesn’t gimp the GPS (which, of course, they will).
Wayne 10.03.08 at 8:55 am
How is this any different from the Bold or other phones that are 3G/EDGE/GSM? Aren’t they world phones?
Daniel H. 10.03.08 at 9:05 am
Richard - I think that your comment could have gotten the point across without the hateful words. I’m with you on the frustration, though.
Robb Dunewood 10.03.08 at 9:14 am
@Wayne,
The Verizon BlackBerry Storm is CDMA. It doesn’t have a SIM card like GSM phones that, if unlocked, you could simply pop in from a carrier in the country that you are visiting.
CDMA still has a massive footprint in North America, however, international roaming charges are very costly, if you can even find a network that supports it.
P 10.03.08 at 9:23 am
I thought it was well known that this was a world phone and yes, it does have a SIM card slot.
p diddy 10.03.08 at 11:26 am
We’ve known that this was a world phone since the earliest of leaks. It has a sim card slot because it can be used on vzw & vodaphone…as well as others once unlocked im sure
Robb Dunewood 10.03.08 at 1:17 pm
The Verizon and Vodafone models are different devices. The Verizon Blackberry Storm 9530 is a dual mode phone like the BlackBerry 8830. I don’t believe that it has a SIM card.
Grammar Police 10.04.08 at 1:04 pm
What hateful words?
monkey 10.06.08 at 6:50 pm
@7
The 8830 has a sim card slot.
A 10.16.08 at 1:44 pm
It says that it has a SIM card slot. Does this mean that if I use T-mobile I could have it unlocked and put my SIM card in it?
pam 11.19.08 at 7:44 pm
hi..i wish o know something….
if the storm has SIM card…would that be possible to unlock it, and use it in other countries ???? for exemple if i’m going on vacation…??? please !!! thanksss