BlackBerry Thunder caught on video, with a ninja
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Sep 10th 2008 1:52AM
posted Sep 10th 2008 1:52AM
[Via Crackberry]
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Ninjas FTW
Well, he was a loser...but at least he convince me waiting for the thunder is going to be a waste of time for me. A touch screen should run smooth and effortless. You shouldn't have to press down on the screen to make your selection. That's why i would get a Bold instead.
I which he spend more time on the Touch Pro.
Yes, because with the Bold, you don't have to push anything, right?
You're pushing my buttons, gad get.
@ Rudiger
Better than just pushing various parts of your big shiny face.
We-e-e-elll.. la-de-freakin'-da! We've got ourselves a ninja here! Hey, Dad, I can't see real good.. ..is that Ryu Hayabusa over there?
Well, actually, Matt.. Ellen and I have encouraged Brian in his stealthing.
Dude sounds like Joe lieberman
The original site used to play a midi of Jay Z - Big Pimpin...
http://www.realultimatepower.net/ninja/ninja2.htm
This guy is ridiculous. Blackberry would never put their stock at stake by making such a disappointing phone. This guy is A FAKE!!! And we'll all find out on September 15 when Verizon announces it and shows some REAL footage. By the way ninjas or Al-Qaeda or whatever the hell this guy is sucks.
i wish he showed what he meant by the "holding to scroll" thing... i dun gyit it!
What he means you have to put your finger on the screen and push then slide your finger up or down then let go. Actually, this it the same for the LG Dare. Something I find very ignoring for a touch screen phone. Maybe cause the screen on the phone is bigger, you won't accidentally activate anything else when you let go.
OMG! The blackberry touch is now hijacked.
Thinking the same thing. LOL.
What a moron. Get me something to slap him accross the face with. Just annoyed the hell out of me.
Ok, I'm going to be the first to admit that I'm a huge computer nerd but come on, what is this? Ninja cell phone leak? OMFG. If I'm never going to get a girlfriend, this guy's never going to get a hand. wth.
Wow he's got the HTC, Black Berry, and LG devices. And the ninja likes the lotus the best? Your kidding. WTF kinda ninja is this guy?
"I don't really like it" (referring to the HTC Touch Pro)... "But the stylus is cool. Its magnetic"
wow...magnets.
hahahhaa...it's new technology. Magnets rule!
Well that was...interesting. And just like a ninja, he was very quiet.
Now make like a ninja... and disappear.
how did this annoying guy leak these phones? can't we have someone that isn't totally inept leak phones? His voice makes me want to punch babies.
i actually did punch like 10 babies.. the video was horrible
Dane Cook reference FOR THE WIN!
haters, this guy is chill. i love the BB
Yeah, besides the Ninja Mask he was kinda funny.
now we know why ninjas keep silent.
they're trying to distance themselves from this douche
The Accelerometer is really slow, and so is the entire UI.... but I like how it orients the screen in the full range of a complete rotation.
The touch-press concept is a good idea, but the press should obviously demand less power.
Screen looks good, but phone looks big and bulky...
Finally his voice is REALLY ANNOYING.
the full rotation is a gimmick. It will only lead to confusion when you get or make a call, since the mike can be at the top or bottom.
Well hopefully they work with the how hard you need to push the screen when it gets released. Idea seems pretty good thought.
Well this phone isn't for me. Considering that this is BB with no qwerty i trust more on Nokia, SE and Apple to shine on the media side with their TS phones because that's what the thunder tries to be here.
No doubt RIM is looking Nokia's market here considering that they actually have been growing fastest from any of the smartphone makers last quarter.
i thought about that slownesso of rotation, too. It could be by design if you think about it. To prevent from wasted cycles of drawing if you didn't mean it.
This guy was a hater. He didn't like anything but the magnet stylus. I think( albeit I never touched it) I would like that you need to click the screen so you know you typed a key. That the thing about touchscreens no type feed back. I still would like a keyboard I can fell for business purposes and typing multiple emails a day.
Does the Ninja come free with the phone?
So he doesn't like that you actually push the screen in "it's like a button" and get genuine haptic feedback from the touch screen... Ok then...
He seems to not like a lot of things.
Um, is the whole mask thing to hide his identity while he unmasks hardware he shouldn't? I do believe that if I new him, I would be able to recognize him. I just hope he doesn't decide to rob a bank next.
Yeah, it'd suck if he got caught, especially for such a lousy video. I'm loving the comment's I'm reading.
Of all the features of all the phones he previewed, the thing he loved the most was the magnetic stylus; the feature he hated the most, the "button-like" screen. Of course he hates the most difficult feature to execute but loves the simplest. Very nice. And does he not know that the screen doesn't have "give" because they want it to be FINGER-OPERATED (wow, that sounds bad, especially when capitalized) and not stylus operated.
If I were to distill this post to a pithy sentence (and an addendum): Wtf did he have to be the first person to get the phones?
What a waste.
Yeah, unless everybody in the QA dept. over there has the same haircut and eyebrows (and I'm not saying that's impossible), I think it'd be pretty easy to figure out who he is.
Somebody get this guy a Sudafed.
The beginning of the video (after the uber-cheesy intro, I mean) is funny. It seems like he's in the middle of saying something, and then the camera starts recording, and he gets this surprised look on his face and just says "Hey! BREW Ninja [something gibberish]."
let's eat him!!!
That "coke" is the Fuze I had, same backing, same everything...
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a258/The300ZX/IMG_0259.jpg?t=1221033321
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a258/The300ZX/IMG_0263.jpg?t=1221033352
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a258/The300ZX/Raphael2.jpg?t=1221033394
Ooooh, look familiar? HTC "Coke"? No... AT&T Fuze.
Looks 0k, I actually think the push interface will fly with a lot of people. On the other hand, it is too bad they didn't skin that keyboard as it was previously suggested.
Just reading all the comments make me not wanna watch it :(
Go ahead and watch the video bro. These guys only bash other people because of their own insecurities.
Hey, this Thunder is looking good. Does anyone have specs?
Meanwhile, just discovered a good site for blackberry software to feed my Bold: http://www.blackberryfreeware.org/
When does thunder come out?
He looks like an Al-Qaeda operative.
Did you actually use brain cells to come up with that post?
would have loved to see how the phone handles cut and paste and features rather than just saying you dont like it
lets shave his head
Bazooka Joe!
I have yet to see anyone comment on the fact that ninjas are usually fully cloaked which includes the head and mouth. This moron just had his overly used turtle neck as his face mask; yeah, like that will help conceal your identity, moron.
in regards to the phone, they all seemed pretty cool. I personally want the Thunder or Storm, whatever its called nowadays.
What we can all learn from this, is that ninjas like magnetic styluses. You don't deserve to procreate.