Verizon: Expect Palm Pre, BlackBerry Storm 2 within six months


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During an investor conference Webcast on Thursday, Verizon Wireless executive Lowell McAdam revealed that the carrier has big plans for device launches for the rest of 2009--launches that include the Palm Pre and RIM BlackBerry Storm 2.

"Over the next six months or so, you will see devices like Palm Pre and a second-generation Storm," Lowell said. He added that Verizon will also support Android phones, but was less specific about the time frame, only saying that they would be available later this year.

Verizon plans for the Pre comes just a day after AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said that AT&T, too, will go after the Pre once Sprint's exclusivity is up on the smartphone. The terms of Sprint's exclusivity have been in question, but given today's news, it looks like six months is when the carrier's hold runs out.

So, which are you more excited about? The Pre, BlackBerry Storm 2 or Android devices on Verizon?
Bonnie Cha is a senior editor for CNET, covering smartphones and GPS. When she's not testing the latest gadgets, you can find her chasing after her crazy lab or surfing in the chilly waters of Northern California. E-mail Bonnie.
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For the Pre - I wonder if Verizon and/or At&T will be willing to compete with the price plan Sprint has; that $99 Simply Everything plan is NICE!
 
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saniyya said:
For the Pre - I wonder if Verizon and/or At&T will be willing to compete with the price plan Sprint has; that $99 Simply Everything plan is NICE!
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would never happen at Verizon....customers dont mind paying for quality. We have 84 million customers with our higher rates.... Sprint is broke and on its last leg, Im surprised they havent come out with a $50 everything plan. Question.... do you think BMW will drop their price because Ford dropped the price on a Focus? Think about it.

I doubt if you will see the Pre on Verizon....... Palm devices are garbage and we havent had a Palm device come out in over a year. The last Palm we had come out was the Palm Centro and that was over a year ago. A hot phone that I like and wouldnt mind seeing with Verizon is the G1 from T mobile.
 
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DAHILL said:
would never happen at Verizon....customers dont mind paying for quality. We have 84 million customers with our higher rates.... Sprint is broke and on its last leg, Im surprised they havent come out with a $50 everything plan. Question.... do you think BMW will drop their price because Ford dropped the price on a Focus? Think about it.

I doubt if you will see the Pre on Verizon....... Palm devices are garbage and we havent had a Palm device come out in over a year. The last Palm we had come out was the Palm Centro and that was over a year ago. A hot phone that I like and wouldnt mind seeing with Verizon is the G1 from T mobile.
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When is the Storm 2 coming out?
 
JSU*Toi said:
When is the Storm 2 coming out?
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I have not even heard of a Storm 2.... the only BB that Ive heard coming out is the Niagra.....names of phones are changed every day, so the Niagra may actually be the "Storm 2".... like I tell customers all the time, at Verizon we are the last to know anything about new releases... you would come out better reading phonescoop or crackberry.com.
 
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I have not even heard of a Storm 2.... the only BB that Ive heard coming out is the Niagra.....names of phones are changed every day, so the Niagra may actually be the "Storm 2".... like I tell customers all the time, at Verizon we are the last to know anything about new releases... you would come out better reading phonescoop or crackberry.com.
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I heard about the Blackberry Niagara, that's going to be the Verizon's version of the Bold.

I heard the Storm 2 would be the fix to the issues that affected the first gen Storm. Phonescoop had it coming out around September but you know how release dates change.
 
JSU*Toi said:
I heard about the Blackberry Niagara, that's going to be the Verizon's version of the Bold.

I heard the Storm 2 would be the fix to the issues that affected the first gen Storm. Phonescoop had it coming out around September but you know how release dates change.
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the fix for the 1st generation Storm came out yesterday when the software update came out.... im updating mine as I type.... it is a 2 hour download.... just go to options, advance options, wireless software update.

most of the stuff on phonescoop (as far as dates) are just dates that customers throw out. There was a different date every week about the Storm.

Here is an early picture I found.... im sure it will change by then though

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For the Pre - I wonder if Verizon and/or At&T will be willing to compete with the price plan Sprint has; that $99 Simply Everything plan is NICE!
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It sholl is! I have Sprint and that Simply Everything plan and I love it. I have no problems with Sprint what so ever, so i'm good and have no desire to switch because of phones. Only way i'd dip is if someone else tops that that plan, but for now i'm comfortable.
 
XHALE9802 said:
It sholl is! I have Sprint and that Simply Everything plan and I love it. I have no problems with Sprint what so ever, so i'm good and have no desire to switch because of phones. Only way i'd dip is if someone else tops that that plan, but for now i'm comfortable.
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First of all... i would never switch companys over a phone... just doesnt make sense to me... phones come and go.... whats new now is old news 3 months down the line.... second a phone is only as good as its network. Plain and simple... Sprints network is horrible .... Outside of major areas..... if you stay in a major city it really doesnt matter what provider you have because there will be towers everywhere. Sprint is geared towards your major city folks and that is where most of their towers are.

AT&T and Verizon are in a league by themselves when it comes to network. The reason Sprint can offer a 99.00 everything plan is because they dont constantly update their network (they cant afford to)...Verizon spends BILLIONS of dollars every year just on building towers and updating their network. If somebody calls us and say they are dropping signal... we are sending a "test man" out there just like u see on the commercial. I promise you within a couple of months there will be in a signal in the area. Like I said you get what you pay for.

Sprint has a lower plan, but they are losing millions of customers every quarter. They arent turning a profit.
 
DAHILL said:
the fix for the 1st generation Storm came out yesterday when the software update came out.... im updating mine as I type.... it is a 2 hour download.... just go to options, advance options, wireless software update.
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Thanks!! Does this mean I can't talk on the phone while it is updating? You know I need my phone. :lmao: :lmao:
 
kellis said:
Thanks!! Does this mean I can't talk on the phone while it is updating? You know I need my phone. :lmao: :lmao:
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DONT DO IT!!!! LOL.... I aint been able to do nothing with my phone for the last hour and it says its only 46% complete..... let me finish mine first then Ill tell you if its ok.

If you do it, you may want to wait until you are going to bed.
 
DAHILL said:
First of all... i would never switch companys over a phone... just doesnt make sense to me... phones come and go.... whats new now is old news 3 months down the line.... second a phone is only as good as its network. Plain and simple... Sprints network is horrible .... Outside of major areas..... if you stay in a major city it really doesnt matter what provider you have because there will be towers everywhere. Sprint is geared towards your major city folks and that is where most of their towers are.
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well i'm payin 99 a month for everything in a major city(from ATL to CHI) and my service is fine so i'm getting what I pay for. and I said switch cause of a phone because of the Storm craze, that aint my thing. If I move back to Huntsville, then maybe i'll have some things to contemplate, but until then no complaints from me.
 
jelli said:
JSU*Toi, check this out here:The Link

DAHILL do you work for Verizon?
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yes maam....

btw that article is a flat out lie...... I am a data tech coordinator.... we havent been trained on NOTHING in the past two weeks except the new netbooks and the mifi device.
 
DAHILL said:
yes maam....

btw that article is a flat out lie...... I am a data tech coordinator.... we havent been trained on NOTHING in the past two weeks except the new netbooks and the mifi device.
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I am going to wait on the Storm 2 I can wait a couple more weeks. Also I just left the store and I am thinking about getting the new netbook. It's so cute and small.
 



JSU*Toi said:
I heard about the Blackberry Niagara, that's going to be the Verizon's version of the Bold.

I heard the Storm 2 would be the fix to the issues that affected the first gen Storm. Phonescoop had it coming out around September but you know how release dates change.
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The BB Niagara will be the 9630

Verizon Wireless will get the Palm Pre "and a cousin," the BlackBerry Storm 2, the BlackBerry Tour, and Google Android phones over the next six months, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said Thursday at the Barclays Capital Worldwide Wireless and Wireline conference.

"It's always been our strategy to offer customers a wide variety of choices and we're excited about the device pipeline," McAdam said.

Combination CDMA/GSM phones may also be in the pipeline, as McAdam said that Verizon Wireless and Vodafone were working together on joint products. Vodafone, a global GSM carrier, owns part of Verizon Wireless.

"We have a number of products on the roadmap going forward that will be joint procurements with Vodafone," he said.

McAdam expanded on some of the device announcements. The BlackBerry Tour is "an up-scale of any of the QWERTY devices" from Research in Motion. As for Android, "we've had some very good dialogs with Google, we like what we see and we will in fact be bringing Android devices to the marketplace in the near future." Motorola will also re-enter Verizon's smartphone portfolio soon.

Many Alltel subscribers will start to get access to new Verizon phones by the end of this year. The Alltel merger is proceeding apace, McAdam said. Alltel's northeastern markets will be converted to Verizon's billing system this weekend, and McAdam said he expects to have 20-25 percent of Alltel's markets converted to all-Verizon by the fourth quarter.

Discussing Verizon's network advantages, McAdam talked a considerable amount of trash about his competitors. AT&T and the new 'unlimited' carriers came in for the harshest rebukes.

Yesterday, AT&T said they're going from their current HSDPA 3.6 network to a faster HSDPA 7.2 system before installing their fourth-generation system, LTE. McAdam is unfazed.

"In the first quarter, we drove 250,000 miles and the throughputs we saw on our network were significantly better than AT&T's," he said.

McAdam said Verizon's strengths will be further enhanced by their quick switch to LTE. He notably ignored EVDO Rev B, a potential software revision to Verizon's current system, which could double Verizon's speeds before LTE takes hold.

"The important factor for us is that we want to move very quickly with one conversion to 4G," he said.

Verizon's conversion to 4G LTE will result in 25-30 markets getting service at 8-12 Mbps by the end of 2010, with full national coverage by the end of 2013, McAdam said. Verizon has significantly more nationwide spectrum than AT&T, which will result in high speeds, he said.
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Blackberry Storm 2 (Odin)

There's lots of buzz around the interwebs today that the BlackBerry Storm 2 could be hitting store shelves much sooner than most of us would think, with rumors suggesting a release as early as before the end of this month or sometime in June. As much as I would LOVE for this to pan out to be true, my CrackBerry gut says we'll all have to wait a little longer than that to get our hands on a store-purchased model.

Our best info right now slates pre-production of the next generation Storm (which RIM internally refers to by the codename BlackBerry "Odin") to begin early next month and from there an official release is usually a couple months out (VZW's technical acceptance process usually takes 2-3 weeks on a device, so even if they approved it off the first pre-production run we'd still be looking at July). And this is Verizon were talking about here... the pickiest of the carriers... who also have the BlackBerry Tour 9630 to roll out still and after a less-than-stellar Storm 1 experience won't want to put out Storm 2 until it's ready. And they won't want to stack the 9630/Storm 2 releases too close to eachother. At this point, I'd rate a May release as impossible, a June launch as potentially possible but improbable, a July release as targeted/more realistic but tight (think end of the month, fingers crossed), an August launch as more likely but if you throw in the usual BlackBerry/Verizon delays then I wouldn't even be suprised to see it launch later than that. As always in the world of BlackBerry, all will be known with time.
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Ive met Lowell McAdams twice..... he is a VERY down to Earth CEO...and very business minded. He explained the difference between Verizon and the competition (the ones with the "everything" plans.)
 
JSU*Toi said:
I am going to wait on the Storm 2 I can wait a couple more weeks. Also I just left the store and I am thinking about getting the new netbook. It's so cute and small.
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Thats my field... aircards and data products..... I work with netbooks all day.... The netbooks are reliable.... its just too damn small for me lol.... but you cant beat the price.
 
sprint is the shyt! everywhere I go i have perfect service with no dropped calls. i have my employee phone with att and my sprint and if i didnt get my svc with att for free i wouldnt have it!

fyi..sprint sold all of theirs towers so the upgrading is done by 3rd parties hence sprint saves money on upgrades....the more you know!

now the edge with att & verizon is the less populated areas...now att is contantly buying up the small wireless providers in the mountains but the svc is horrible due to the limitations on the 2g technology in place. i cant really comment on verizon service overall as i have never been an employee or had svc with them...but i have with att & sprint and by far the only thing keeping att afloat is the iphone and maybe the bb curve with a touch of bb bold.

i wonder how the whole thing with verizon & alltel is going...dahill care to shed any light on that?
 
Terrell_SU said:
sprint is the shyt! everywhere I go i have perfect service with no dropped calls. i have my employee phone with att and my sprint and if i didnt get my svc with att for free i wouldnt have it!

fyi..sprint sold all of theirs towers so the upgrading is done by 3rd parties hence sprint saves money on upgrades....the more you know!

now the edge with att & verizon is the less populated areas...now att is contantly buying up the small wireless providers in the mountains but the svc is horrible due to the limitations on the 2g technology in place. i cant really comment on verizon service overall as i have never been an employee or had svc with them...but i have with att & sprint and by far the only thing keeping att afloat is the iphone and maybe the bb curve with a touch of bb bold.

i wonder how the whole thing with verizon & alltel is going...dahill care to shed any light on that?
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Its hard for me to say now... because I really only work with pdas, bb's and data products now. Honestly i cant tell a difference now..... probably will more in the 3rd and 4th quarter when the full merger goes through... now we also recently merged with Unicell (some bootleg phone company) and its been a mess....Most of their customers had old ass phones that wouldnt really work good on our network, so we had to send them all out new phones.

Sprint is at the bottom of the totem pole now. When we have teleconferences to discuss numbers, Sprint or Tmobile's name isnt even mentioned.... AT&T is the only company that comes close to us in any quarterly numbers. Sprint even dropped behind Tmobile in total customers and is losing millions of customers each quarter and has an unbelievable churn rate (rate of customers leaving). When I was in customer service I NEVER lost a customer to Sprint or Tmobile.... now I lost some to A T&T when the I phone came out, but pretty much our 84 million customers are satisfied with paying more for a better network.
 
I have had Nextel,Sprint and Verizon. Each have there own pro's and con's but so far Sprint service have been on point. Now there phone is another story.
 
DAHILL said:
Thats my field... aircards and data products..... I work with netbooks all day.... The netbooks are reliable.... its just too damn small for me lol.... but you cant beat the price.
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Can you add MS word to them? Works is not a good look :smh:
 
JSU*Toi said:
Can you add MS word to them? Works is not a good look :smh:
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its just like a regular computer... you can do whatever you want to on it.... the ONLY other thing I dont like about it besides the size is that it doesnt have a cd rom.... see I burn music all day... there is no disc trey with it.... unless you buy an external.
 
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