Vodafone sez November 14 for Storm, Verizon offers new global plans for it

As promised, Vodafone has officially announced a November delivery order date for its BlackBerry Storm -- November 14, to be specific. Pre-orders are being taken (as they are in the States), so if you want to be in the first batch of Brits to rock this thing, it might be a good idea to go ahead and get on a list lest the throngs of humanity trying to get one on launch day end up harshing your chances. On a related note, Vodafone's better (or worse) half Verizon has come forward with a surprisingly affordable data plan -- GlobalEmail -- that'll allow unlimited web browsing, MMS, and visual voicemail both in the US and a laundry list of countries around the world for $69.99 (or $64.99 when tied to a voice plan). Speaking of voice, Verizon's also announced a new Global Value Plan that hooks you up with discounted minutes abroad for $4.99 a month. Seeing how the Storm is Verizon's first handset with global 3G, this new action should see some serious play.

[Via Phone Scoop]

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[Valicore @ Nov 6th 2008 11:48PM]

Come on dude, language isn't static. The word "ginormous" is in the dictionary, and check this out: http://valleywag.com/5022982/merriam+websters-new-dictionary-words-for-2008

Sez does seem pushing it a little, but since they put w00t in the dictionary last year, who knows.

[Connor @ Nov 6th 2008 6:14PM]

Lol Brits...

[Apple magic @ Nov 6th 2008 6:21PM]

whats so funny pal?

[Lowest Ranked @ Nov 6th 2008 6:52PM]

Your 7 minute temper.

[Game_playa @ Nov 6th 2008 8:14PM]

Dear LowestRanked,
Are you on teh Engadgets all day long? Your posts only seem to be minutes apart and you post on almost every single one, And often, you post multiple times on some articles. Is this all you do?
I expect an answer promptly
Kind regards,
Game_playa

[phanbouy @ Nov 6th 2008 8:20PM]

game playa's a playa hata

[Laughing Man @ Nov 6th 2008 8:54PM]

Ethnic comment not required.

[phanbouy @ Nov 6th 2008 9:52PM]

how in lordy sam hell is that ethnic? a huge number of words and phrases in our language have been coopted from slang and vernacular from all sorts of places. PC police are boring

[Valicore @ Nov 6th 2008 11:33PM]

game_playa, some of us are just bored because he already made our fortunes... others are just übergeniuses who finish their work very quickly.

To the no ethnic comments required, wtf are you talking about? The fact that you see that as ethnic says a whole lot more about you than anyone else.

[Apple magic @ Nov 7th 2008 6:17PM]

Looks like an apple employee artificiality rated this message low to hide the truth (lower down the blog)
here it is again... This phone is not a patch on what the IPhone could be if jobs got his head out his ass... Basically the IPhone's GUI is state of the art fantastic BUT PATENTED! No one else will come close :(
Why the hell does jobs insist on crippling his products by purposely and quite unnecessarily having the best user experience yet hold back features, he's a shit! The hardware could easily offer them yet he sort of teases us with what could have been's. IPhone ‘could’ have been the only phone to buy had jobs "allowed" open software development, total blue tooth support, full WiFi, Normal phone provider functions such as video calling, multimedia messages, etc.

WHY APPLE! WHATS your problem!!! Arrr yes they could do it easily yet they DONT! WHY?? at the kind of price they ask for the dam phone yes they dam could!

[reisa @ Nov 6th 2008 6:15PM]

Can't wait!

[Abuzar Baloach @ Nov 6th 2008 6:52PM]

Lol

I love your parody of Apple and BMW.

[iEye @ Nov 6th 2008 6:15PM]

See, now this is a business device... unlike all those prissy phones you gadget freaks eat up every month... The only thing is that the touch screen is only good for adding business related apps... other than that it is just a toy.


A blackberry with a physical keyboard will allways be the serious contender...

[Abuzar Baloach @ Nov 6th 2008 6:52PM]

iPhone is a toy?

Are you sure this is iEye?

[Lowest Ranked @ Nov 6th 2008 6:54PM]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I regret to inform you of this breaking news. Today is a _cold_ day in Hell, as iEye has actually just omitted the iPhone from one of his comments.



And highly praised a Backberry.


wtf?

[Raymond @ Nov 6th 2008 6:18PM]

How "Global" could a CDMA phone be.

It's GSM that has the world "Global" engraved on its head (GSM: Global System for Mobile communications)

Even Verizon themselves know that and thus adopting LTE for 4G.

[Ari @ Nov 6th 2008 6:27PM]

the phone has CDMA and GSM radios in it

[john @ Nov 6th 2008 6:31PM]

obviously you have never looked at the specs on this phone. other wise you would know tha it supports cdma/ev-do and gsm and edge. no your facts before you cut something down for doing or not doing something .

[a ham sandwich @ Nov 6th 2008 6:43PM]

its "know". wow.

[Lowest Ranked @ Nov 6th 2008 6:56PM]

I think he was just demonstrating the extent of his 'noledge'.

[phanbouy @ Nov 6th 2008 7:46PM]

Bo noes cell phones

[Alex @ Nov 6th 2008 6:19PM]

$65 a month for data, etc. Bahahha!

[Hugh @ Nov 6th 2008 6:46PM]

overseas...

[Apple magic @ Nov 6th 2008 6:19PM]

arr its crap... Basically the IPhone's GUI is state of the art fantastic BUT PATENTED! No one else will come close :(
Why the hell does jobs insist on crippling his products by purposely and quite unnecessarily having the best user experince yet hold back features, he's a shit! The hardware could easily offer them yet he sort of teases us with what could have been's. IPhone ‘could’ have been the only phone to buy had jobs "allowed" open software development, total blue tooth support, full WiFi, Normal phone provider functions such as video calling, multimedia messages, etc.

WHY APPLE! WHATS your problem!!! Arrr yes they could do it easily yet they DONT! WHY?? at the kind of price they ask for the dam phone yes they dam could!

[m3nphls @ Nov 6th 2008 6:22PM]

just got back from a verizon kick off party and they just announced a release date of new years. It kind of surprised me, because I expected it to be delayed till before christmas. But they didn't say any pricing though and after playing around with the phone I gotta tell ya that its freakin nice and feels nice on hand.

[john @ Nov 6th 2008 6:37PM]

we vote ur comment down becuase we dont want to hear new years launch the thing is coming out thiss month noww shhhhhh

[Lowest Ranked @ Nov 6th 2008 6:58PM]

What? I can't hear you. You seem to be fading into the background.

[BooPodomous @ Nov 6th 2008 6:38PM]

Why does it cost more to use internet on your phone than it does at home?

[a ham sandwich @ Nov 6th 2008 6:45PM]

because it's a more difficult network to upkeep?

[Valicore @ Nov 6th 2008 11:40PM]

I don't know... the whole no wires thing makes it slightly more difficult I think.

[alex @ Nov 6th 2008 6:42PM]

If you look at the site to pre order the phone it says Be the first to own the Storm™, pre-order yours today and we will aim to deliver it to you on the 18 November.

http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/mobile-phones/pay-monthly/blackberry/storm/

I think the put the 14th as the original release date and then changed it to the 18th...

[Rykaro @ Nov 6th 2008 7:10PM]

They emailed out today confirming it's delayed 7 to 10 workings days:

Dear Customer
Thank you for placing your order on the V-Store website.
Unfortunately we have suffered a surprisingly high demand for the item you have ordered, which means that it is unexpectedly out of stock.
Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused. We hope to have further stock available within 7-10 working days and will contact you again once your order has been dispatched.

Bugger :o(

[Harvey Hanson @ Nov 7th 2008 4:04AM]

I had a pre-order for the UK v-store in about a week ago and it still said 11th as the release date, I spoke to a person yesterday and mine is still on course for that release date, so fingers crossed :-)

[Renewal @ Nov 6th 2008 7:13PM]

Seems to say "pre-order" on 14th, delivery no sooner than 18th.

[iEye @ Nov 6th 2008 7:41PM]

I never had anything against a Black Berry for business use. You should have an iPhone for personal use though...
iPhone/iPod touch can be used for certain bunisess applications that need a cheap custom solution...

And I solved that little problem of people pretending to be me by using rotating avatars!

[Phi @ Nov 6th 2008 8:32PM]

I called Verizon today and the CSR said that the Storm would be available online on the 11th and in stores on the 13th

[Backlin @ Nov 6th 2008 8:48PM]

Sez? Are you serious?

[Kris @ Nov 7th 2008 12:56AM]

I also was wondering why that is there.
But didnt wanna bring it up, in case it was a deliberate extended joke from a post relating to this one that aired 3 days ago. In which case it would make sense to everyone except me, and then asking would make me seem like a loser.
But I didnt, so I dont.

[ZIG @ Nov 6th 2008 9:11PM]

IPHONE FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Shakapooi @ Nov 6th 2008 9:42PM]

So basically folks should get the *lube* ready 'cause Verizon's coming *up* behind and jonesing for some gouging.

[motang @ Nov 6th 2008 10:37PM]

That would be the perfect phone for me to use while I am in India! :-)

[Kris @ Nov 7th 2008 12:57AM]

Vali, did you push reply to the wrong message?

[NoAndThen @ Nov 7th 2008 12:06AM]

@ Valicore: Word.

@ Chris Ziegler:

Did you just erase my comment? That's reeeeaally weak.

What is this, fox shnews?

Valicore replied to me, I even got an email, and viewed it just a moment ago...

mutiny I sez!

(^^ see that there? I made a funny. THAT's where it works, not in a headline.)

[Chris Ziegler @ Nov 7th 2008 12:09AM]

I deleted your comment because I won't tolerate being called a "dolt." If you'll look back through our posts, you'll see that we use "sez" from time to time, and there was absolutely no reason for it to cause your outburst in this context.

If you want straight-laced grammar, there are plenty of better places to get it. We know what we're doing, we know the rules of the language, and we feel free to bend them when it's appropriate.

[Kris @ Nov 7th 2008 12:59AM]

Haha, its nice having power.
Sez me, who doesnt though :-|

[NoAndThen @ Nov 7th 2008 9:57AM]

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

"We know what we're doing, we know the rules of the language, and we feel free to bend them when it's appropriate."

Yes, I agree. Where appropriate. I think Lolcats are hilarious.

Like in my above post. THAT WAS MY POINT.

An outburst? Maybe if you paid attention to constructive criticism instead of deleting it... ah fuck it.

There are several other posts calling you out for an admittedly poor use of sez... I'm not calling you a dolt man (just your use of sez there..), but it's not my fault you're a little cry baby.

I CAN HAZ JOURNALIST SECURE ENOUGH TO LISTEN TO WHAT WE SEZ?

[skant @ Nov 7th 2008 10:28AM]

@Chris Ziegler

Just because you think you've set precedent doesn't make it correct or acceptable. I can understand if it worked for some sort of joke, but this is a blatant disregard for grammar, beneath the standard that is expected from internet journalists and beneath the standard I would hope you would set for yourselves. We're not asking you to be anal about grammar; we're simply asking you to stop trying to be cute, when there is joke or pun involved. It's irritating and often is as annoying as reading text in all caps. Leave the intentional botching of the language when there's at least a reason for it.

[Valicore @ Nov 7th 2008 12:07AM]

Wait, there is GlobalEmail and GlobalAccess. While I see GlobalAccess for $129 a month offers 5 gigs of international data, I can see what GlobalEmail offers. Is it just POP3 and IMAP access or...?

[Johan S @ Nov 7th 2008 2:48AM]

Those are the ugliest possible icons. Let's have some color and let's not look like wireframe.