“Verizon has extended its return policy through Jan. 15, 2009 for all phones purchased since Nov. 16 — before [RIM’s BlackBerry] Storm went on sale. But we’ve heard anecdotally — and seen more evidence on Twitter — that many people are already taking their Storms back,” Dan Frommer reports for Silicon Alley Insider.
• davematson: Returned my blackberry storm. A counter-assault against a rare consumerist impulse purchase on my part. And a crappy product, too.
• nessenj: Returned the BB Storm last night to VZW. They can have their piece of junk back.
• dquail: Returned my crappy Blackberry storm. what a piece of junk. Guy at verizon wasn’t surprised
Frommer reports, “This is not a scientific sample… [but] it suggests that one stat we’ve heard from mobile blogger ‘Boy Genius’ isn’t crazy: That 40% to 50% of Storms are being returned. If that’s true — we don’t know — it’s astonishingly high.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Ken” for the heads up.]
People are buying the Storm because they want and iPhone but don’t want AT&T;.
I don’t want AT&T;either – but I would take my iPhone on T-mobile or Sprint before I would take a Black Berry on Verizon!
Isn’t the Black Berry Storm just lipstick on a pig? Oink!
I find the whole concept of one big button laughable. I can’t imagine typing an e-mail click a big button for each letter. What were they thinking? Surely BB tried it themselves before selling it. Maybe not.
people need to be patience and give BB the chance to fix the software with updates… Just like Apple did.
It doesn’t happen over night. If people are expecting it to be flawless out of the box… Think again. I have yet to find any perfect products. LOL
really? the big button is flat out terrible. can’t fix hardware issues with software…
ha ha ha ha! Look out! Shiat Storm!
I looked at one over the weekend to see how it compared to the iPhone and I wasn’t impressed. The Verizon guy was trying to talk me out of looking at it. He said that it wasn’t that good, it was slow and I think he even said that people was returning it.
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@CYxodus
People was returning it? Was they really?
@StormTard
Wow. That’s commitment to a joke. italicizing every other word.
I played with my friend’s Storm for about 1 minute and within 5 seconds I hated it and was dying inside.
So many extra steps. Touch to select, then click to activate EVERYTHING.
In a word…
pathetic.
BB needs to learn that you can’t polish a turd.
I would go insane if I had to press down the “big ass button” for each letter, for each action. Arrrgh. Oh and the huge gap surrounding the BAB is a giant lint and crud magnet. If someone actually keeps it for a few months, that BAB is going to get some crap between there.
@ marco
> people need to be patience and give BB the chance to fix the software with updates… Just like Apple did.
You can’t fix a major design flaw (the whole screen being one big button) with a software update. Apple tested its iPhone hardware for years to get it right, before they even started user testing of the software. RIM is a hardware-oriented company too, so it is surprising that they would release such a conceptually flawed product.
Haters! And by “haters” I don’t mean BB or Storm haters…I mean haters. These clowns have been waiting for a year or more for an alternative to the iPhone and once “it” comes they desperately & blindly eat it up…. Sadly uneventful…except for the fact that there are now only two choices…get a fscking iPhone OR continue insisting that BB will cough up a golden series of updates…sound familiar anyone? Starts with a “V” ends with an “a”…..
The way I hear it works, you touch an item to select it (which is a totally unnecessary step) than push the screen to activate it.
They could change the software so that all you have to do is touch an item to activate it. Then pushing the entire screen could perform a different function, like returning to the home screen.
That’s what I would do in RIM’s situation.
A fellow at work at work said he was getting one…and it was so much better than my 3G iPhone.
He bought it and is returning it tomorrow.
Of course people are taking them back! No Windows CE– and a PDA without a keyboard is like a computer without a task bar! Fools. This definitely should prove to you Mactards that Apple can only make a niche product- and it should show the manufacturers that Apple has already taken the whole market for suckers who want to put their paw prints on the screen to TYPE! Will Steve Jobs ever out grow 1984!?!?!
The Blackberry Drizzle. You’ll need a light coat.
Ha! I’ll be here all day, folks. Don’t forget to tip your waitresses.
And as far as typing without a keyboard goes, the only thing I have to say is: “Eat up Martha,”
Huh? Whuh?
If only Apple could break loose of the AT&T;lock on the iPhone they’d drive all these crappy iPhone knock-offs right out of the market. It’s sad that I’ll have to wait for that to happen — no AT&T;service in my area.
I’m writin this in my iPhone as I’m taking the park and ride into work. I have to agree. While I had AT&T;before iPhone. And I’m fine with there service. I do believe that if apple opened up and sold across all carriers they would destroy the market. ESP at the new price point.
LIke I stated in a previous posting, I was asked to leave Verizon when I was there with my iPhone comparing it to the Storm. The manager didn’t like the fact that the iPhone was really doing a better job at most of the functions the 2 phones share- it didn’t help that there were several people gathered around agreeing that the Storm just wasn’t working as nice as the iPhone either. Nothing like showing the buyer that the horse has no teeth.
You can polish a turd, but it’s still a turd and looks like a turd.